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Instructor Antonio Hidalgo, associate artistic director of Tours for Flamenco Vivo Carlota Santana, leads a free master’s flamenco class for the public at Duke on Saturday. The class attracted about 15 people to learn the basics of flamenco.

Dance group performs, teaches art of flamenco in Durham

As part of Duke’s “Passion for Flamenco” series, the Spanish dance company Flamenco...

Powell: Meet North Carolina's new Senator No

Former N&O editorial cartoonist Dwane Powell returns to lampoon lawmakers and other folks in...

Sports

No. 4 Duke crushes Syracuse 73-54

Duke’s Justise Winslow posted a career-high 23 points, along with nine rebounds, three blocks and two steals to lead the Blue Devils to a 73-54 win over the Syracuse Orange at Cameron Indoor Stadium. 54 minutes ago

Local/State News

Joey Rossi takes a run Saturday along the Reedy Creek Greenway adjacent to the N.C. State University Equine Educational Unit on Reedy Creek Road in Raleigh. Temperatures below freezing have preserved the snowy landscape after a winter storm moved through the area on Wednesday night.

Raleigh slowly returns to life after snowstorm

As the weather slowly warmed Saturday in Raleigh, trash trucks rolled, the power flickered back in the last darkened homes and nonprofits tended to those isolated by last week’s snowstorms.

Business

Coon Rock Farm farm manager Lisbeth Rasmussen walks last week between racks of hydroponic trays containing bib lettuce in the farm’s new CropBox.

NC entrepreneurs look to reinvent farming with the CropBox

Williamson Greenhouses of Clinton is hoping to change the economics of farming with the CropBox, a shipping container equipped with a hydroponic growing and software monitoring system.

Politics

In this photo taken Friday, Feb. 27, 2015, photos by Scott Garlock are seen on display at an exhibit entitled "Rural Revival: Photographs of Home and Preservation of Place" at the Museum of History in Raleigh, N.C. The timing of the opening of the exhibit of abandoned houses as legislators reconsider a historic preservation tax credit is serendipitous but not intentional, say the curator and the photographer.

Abandoned house photos make accidental political statement

The timing is coincidental, but organizers hope it's also serendipitous: An exhibit of photographs of abandoned houses in eastern North Carolina is opening at the state Museum of History as lawmakers returning for a new legislative session are being...

Nation/World News

Justice Department scrutinizes candidate, PAC ties

The Justice Department is stepping up scrutiny of the increasingly cozy ties between candidates and their outside allies, a move that could jolt the freewheeling campaign-finance atmosphere ahead of the 2016 elections.

Living

Instructor Antonio Hidalgo, associate artistic director of Tours for Flamenco Vivo Carlota Santana, leads a free master’s flamenco class for the public at Duke on Saturday. The class attracted about 15 people to learn the basics of flamenco.

Dance group performs, teaches art of flamenco in Durham

As part of Duke’s “Passion for Flamenco” series, the Spanish dance company Flamenco Vivo Carlota Santana will have its final performance Sunday night.

Entertainment

Sarah Anne Johnson's exhibit, "Wonderland", combines her diverse body of work from photographs to sculpey figurines to handcrafted doll-houses. The exhibit will be open at CAM in Raleigh until May.

Sarah Anne Johnson turns CAM into her personal ‘Wonderland’

‘Wonderland,’ a mid-career retrospective by Canadian artist Sarah Anne Johnson, touches on the natural world and the deepest, darkest corners of her family history.

Opinion

Powell: Meet North Carolina's new Senator No

Former N&O editorial cartoonist Dwane Powell returns to lampoon lawmakers and other folks in the great North State.

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