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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.

Local/State News

Jordan Jones, 8, finishes his meal of bean soup and cornbread at home on Friday. His mother, Joyce Todd-Jones, has struggled with her food budget the past two weeks, having to feed her children extra meals at home during snow days off from school. Her family relies on the free or reduced breakfast and lunch programs at school.

Snow days lead to hunger pangs for some Triangle families

Thousands of children in the region rely on school for at least one meal a day, and losing eight days of school meals put a strain on many families. Local food pantries expect the repercussions to linger for weeks.

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

Attorney general nominee Loretta Lynch appears on Capitol Hill in Washington, Jan. 28, 2015. On Thursday, Feb. 26, 2015, the Senate Judiciary Committee approved her nomination 12-8.

Dome: Voting law talk sank Loretta Lynch's AG support in NC

The opposition by Sens. Richard Burr and Thom Tillis, both North Carolina Republicans, of NC native Loretta Lynch's nomination for US attorney general centers on Lynch's apparent unwillingness to reverse course in a federal challenge to North Carolina... 2 hours ago

Nation/World News

Erika Zambrano holds a photo from 2010 of shooting victim Antonio Zambrano Montes on Feb. 11, 2015, while standing outside the city hall building in Pasco, Wash. Shot to death by police, protesters have rallied in his defense, including on Thursday, Feb. 19, 2015, amid a Special Investigation Unit briefing on the case.

Mexican’s killing by police exposes wounds in a changing town

Like many communities that have experienced dramatic demographic shifts, Pasco has faced its share of challenges. But those pale in comparison with the challenge it faces today as the killing of an unarmed Mexican, caught on video by a witness, has...

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 in downtown Raleigh's Contemporary Art Museum, 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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