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A 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.

A man was found in his car at Massey Avenue and Fayetteville Street with a bullet wound in his neck early Sunday, police said.

They arrived in butterfly wings, Mexican wrestling masks and college graduation gowns. They ate fried-green tomato sandwiches, vegan tacos and Cuban sliders.

George 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.

The 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.

The Durham resolution states that only human beings have constitutional rights and that political spending is not equivalent to free speech.

Wake County doesn’t think the erotic trilogy has staying power. Johnston just ordered it. Durham has a waiting list to read it.

Members of the DPS Board of Education and about 30 community organizations gathered at Fayetteville Street Elementary School to support the district’s 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.

DeAnne 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.

President Obama's chief environmental adviser and U.S. Rep. David Price will tour a solar start-up company in Durham.

The $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.

These 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.

North Carolina is celebrating its agricultural heritage with the 2012 Got to Be N.C. Festival at the State Fairgrounds in Raleigh.

Shakanah 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.

A man fleeing from Alcohol Law Enforcement agents crashed his vehicle into an utility pole Thursday night in Durham, sending him to the hospital.

Luciano 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.

The 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.