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Children affected by Friday’s shooting at a Chapel Hill elementary school may need reassurances that their teachers – and their parents – are not going anywhere, a police crisis counselor says.

“This man is going to kill me; she always said that,” a friend of Chahnaz Kebaier said Sunday.

Many who signed the petition praise Hankins’ leadership and cite a perception he was demoted because he is black, a charge that school board officials say is unwarranted.

Well Fed and Well Read is a new initiative by PORCH and Book Harvest, providing children in need at least 10 free books over the summer and bags of fresh food to their parents every month.

Gordon Goodwin, 22, of Cary was arrested Friday on charges that he was the man who robbed a SunTrust bank branch in a Harris Teeter supermarket in Chapel Hill by passing a teller a note saying he had a gun.

A Carrboro man was charged with murder Friday in the fatal shooting of a woman in front of Mary Scroggs Elementary School minutes before school was to be dismissed for the long holiday weekend

Media sets up “Camp Edwards,” the defendant takes in another baseball game and the wait enters one week for a jury verdict in the trial of the former presidential candidate.

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

They also hear about new procedures designed to prevent future fraud like what happened in the African and Afro-American Studies department.

Residents and the developer will have to wait another two weeks to find out if the Carrboro Board of Adjustment approves an 8,100-square-foot Family Dollar for the less than one acre site. The Board of Aldermen will not review the plan.

Police have responded to two incidents in the past week involving women who were grabbed by an unknown man while walking on Church Street.

Triangle schools fared much better on a Newsweek list of top public schools than on a competing list developed by U.S. News & World Report.

Chapel Hill's Southern Season has opened a coffee bar and changed its hours to open at 8 a.m. instead of 10 a.m. six days a week.

Police said the man handed a note to a teller at the bank counter inside the Harris Teeter at Chapel Hill North.

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

Sheriff’s deputies were investigating a home break-in early Saturday that left one person wounded.

Dan Coleman’s term expires in December 2015. Once he leaves, a special election will be held to choose someone to fill his seat.