Durham NC

The city's new crime report shows violent crime down nearly 17% in 2025. Some say the data is encouraging, but there is still much more work to be done.

On a stretch of Fayetteville Street where history and community run deep, one restaurant has been quietly setting the standard for Southern comfort food for generations. The Chicken Hut is more than a place to eat; it is a Durham institution that has been welcoming families through its doors since 1957.

On Tuesday evening, Ilyasah Shabazz, an author, educator and activist, entered the Penn Pavilion stage to a standing ovation from around 400 Duke and Durham community members. As the 2026 Black History Month speaker, Shabazz gave her lecture four days before the 61st anniversary of the assassination of her father —...

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A 56-year-old Durham man will spend the rest of his life in prison for the murder of a U.S. Navy veteran in a tobacco-store parking lot, prosecutors said Thursday. Jurors found Frederick Johnson guilty of first-degree murder in the 2022 shooting on Hillsborough Road in Durham, where the victim, Derek Sterling,...

A woman accused of killing one of her children and attempting to kill another last week made her first appearance in Durham County Court from a hospital bed Tuesday.

A Wake County judge denied extending a domestic violence protective order against a Durham County judge this week, saying the accuser lacked sufficient evidence. Chief District Judge Clayton Jones was accused of assault by his ex-girlfriend after an incident at a Durham auto body shop. A Harnett County judge...

This Michigan starting guard set the tone early for this Saturday's marquee matchup.

Raleigh-Durham International Airport’s Terminal 1 quietly flipped the switch on a fresh batch of shops and restaurants Thursday, giving travelers more local beer, sit-down meals and grab-and-go candy and gifts before they board. The upgrades bring in a full-service Raleigh Beer Garden outpost, an Italian spot and a...

Legendary UNC coach Roy Williams once explained that his intense dislike of NC State stemmed from his early years in the North Carolina mountains, when he grew tired of obnoxious Wolfpack fans bragging about their teams’ relatively brief stretches of success against the Tar Heels for parts of the 1950s and 1970s.