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Chef-owner Drew Moore has opened Venable Rotisserie Bistro in historic Carr Mill Mall in Carrboro, near Weaver Street Market .

Modified: 05/29/12 03:56:23 PM

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.

Modified: 05/29/12 07:02:59 PM

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

Modified: 05/28/12 01:03:08 AM

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.

Modified: 05/28/12 05:56:15 PM

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.

Modified: 05/27/12 04:26:30 AM

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.

Modified: 05/26/12 08:04:15 AM

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

Modified: 05/26/12 12:24:06 AM
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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.

Modified: 05/25/12 10:37:17 AM
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Wake County doesn’t 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 AM

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

Modified: 05/25/12 12:08:39 PM
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UNC President Emeritus William Friday, 91, will enter extended period of rehabilitation after being released from the hospital on Thursday.

Modified: 05/24/12 05:34:40 PM

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.

Modified: 05/24/12 12:00:42 PM

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

Modified: 05/24/12 05:32:57 AM
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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.

Modified: 05/22/12 05:36:52 PM
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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.

Modified: 05/22/12 03:41:11 PM

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

Modified: 05/21/12 04:47:52 AM

North 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 AM

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

Modified: 05/19/12 02:18:40 PM

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

Modified: 05/19/12 01:35:03 PM
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