Triangle Briefs: A new cost-cutting method of leasing books will allow Orange County to restore hours at its Carrboro branch and other libraries, county officials said Friday.

Triangle Briefs: This week, former Tar Heel basketball player Shammond Williams reported a $10,000 diamond-encrusted watch stolen from his home on Gardner Circle.

Residents stew as complex cracks down.

Triangle Briefs: A Raleigh lawyer is being held in lieu of $500,000 bail in the shooting of a man in rural Orange County.

A stone wall embedded with tools and a winding marble bench created for Chapel Hill's Town Operations Center were among 45 projects recognized as outstanding public art during a national conference last month in Philadelphia.

"This is Willard, a men's college. One mile away is Fulton, a women's college. You've heard of the sexual revolution. Well, I'm probably one of its first casualties. Paxton Quigley, that's me."

Triangle Briefs:The General Assembly passed a bill Monday to allow the town of Carrboro to limit individual campaign contributions in municipal elections to as little as $250.

Orange crew called unsafe.

The Orange County Animal Shelter was locked down for 30 minutes Monday while some chemical cylinders found at an old university waste dump nearby were removed.

Lilli Manis wrote an essay for her senior English class saying that she felt like an outsider at Chapel Hill High School and that her schoolmates didn't really notice her.

Carrboro High School will add four Advanced Placement courses after parents complained the new school was being shortchanged.

With limited visibility and cars zooming over the speed limit, Jeanne Brown has a hard time turning onto Mount Carmel Church Road from Bennett Road as it is.