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In his budget message, Durham County Manager Mike Ruffin says it’s time to consider city-county merger again
Modified: 05/29/12 09:18:57 PMCommentary: Thirteen months ago children were playing on Atka Court in Durham on a warm spring night when a man in a green van shot and killed 13-year-old Shakanah China. Isnt the murder of an innocent little girl enough by itself to spark outrage?
Modified: 05/29/12 06:45:53 AMA robbery victim and workers at a check-cashing office chased down a man who apparently fled with the money and held him until police arrived.
Modified: 05/28/12 01:06:43 AMA man was found in his car at Massey Avenue and Fayetteville Street with a bullet wound in his neck early Sunday, police said.
Modified: 05/27/12 10:56:27 AMThey arrived in butterfly wings, Mexican wrestling masks and college graduation gowns. They ate fried-green tomato sandwiches, vegan tacos and Cuban sliders.
Modified: 05/27/12 04:26:16 AMGeorge Jenne and Paul Hrusovsky have spent the last year and a half creating artwork for “That Was Then: Paul Hrusovsky and George Jenne,” an exhibit that opens Saturday, May 19, at the Craven Allen Gallery, 1106 1/2 Broad St. in Durham.
Modified: 05/26/12 07:51:21 PMThe N.C. State Bar filed a complaint Friday charging that former Durham District Attorney Tracey Cline spun a string of courthouse lies, behavior that could cost Cline her law license.
Modified: 05/26/12 04:35:22 AMThe Durham resolution states that only human beings have constitutional rights and that political spending is not equivalent to free speech.
Modified: 05/25/12 12:14:49 PMWake County doesnt think the erotic trilogy has staying power. Johnston just ordered it. Durham has a waiting list to read it.
Modified: 05/25/12 12:05:14 AMMembers of the DPS Board of Education and about 30 community organizations gathered at Fayetteville Street Elementary School to support the districts 24-point legislative agenda, which calls for more state funding for teachers salaries, smaller class sizes, a cap on charter schools and the reinstatement of a three-quarter-cent sales tax.
Modified: 05/24/12 05:57:42 AMDeAnne Seekins will oversee delivery of health care to more than 56,000 veterans living in eastern North Carolina and an operating budget of approximately $400 million.
Modified: 05/23/12 01:44:46 PMTriangle schools fared much better on a Newsweek list of top public schools than on a competing list developed by U.S. News & World Report.
Modified: 05/22/12 05:36:52 PMPresident Obama's chief environmental adviser and U.S. Rep. David Price will tour a solar start-up company in Durham.
Modified: 05/22/12 06:10:48 AMThe $372.7 million plan is about $10.2 million or 2.8 percent more than last year. It raises the city tax rate one cent to 56.75 cents per $100 of tax valuation.
Modified: 05/22/12 05:07:08 AMThese days, "comics" are serious business. A medium that started a century or so ago as single-frame amusements in newspapers' back pages has matured into a form with million-dollar collectibles.
Modified: 05/21/12 02:07:22 PMNorth Carolina is celebrating its agricultural heritage with the 2012 Got to Be N.C. Festival at the State Fairgrounds in Raleigh.
Modified: 05/19/12 05:16:40 AMShakanah China was playing with her younger sister and brother and texting on her new cellphone when she was shot May 10, 2011, a few days after her birthday.
Modified: 05/19/12 05:23:15 AMA man fleeing from Alcohol Law Enforcement agents crashed his vehicle into an utility pole Thursday night in Durham, sending him to the hospital.
Modified: 05/18/12 12:39:39 PMLuciano Cabrera, 21, was last seen alive during the early morning hours of Saturday, June 11, 2011 at the former Club Steel Blue (now The Bar) at 711 Rigsbee Ave.
Modified: 05/17/12 01:19:47 PMThe City Council wants to let beer and wine sellers hear that it takes ABC violations seriously and might make an example of M.M. Fowler Inc.
Modified: 05/16/12 12:09:09 PMGet local news updates
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