Virginia bulldozes North Carolina for first ACC Tournament title since 2019
It started off innocently enough. Sixty-one degrees and sunny under a pure blue sky, as the Virginia men’s lacrosse team whooped their way through warmups at American Legion Memorial Stadium. It looked like any other game, and early in the second quarter it looked like one specific game. Virginia...
Drugmaker AbbVie chooses North Carolina for $1.4B manufacturing campus
AbbVie on Wednesday said it will invest $1.4 billion to build a large manufacturing campus in Durham, North Carolina, to support production of its immunology, neuroscience and oncology medicines. The drugmaker plans to hire 734 people at the 185-acre site over the next four years, including engineers, scientists, production workers...
Liberty Street Shocker: Woman Stabbed Near Downtown Durham Sunday Afternoon
A stretch of Liberty Street near downtown Durham turned into a crime scene Sunday afternoon after a woman was stabbed in the 500 block and rushed to a hospital. Police said her injuries were not life-threatening, and detectives stayed on the scene into the evening piecing together what happened. Officers...
Stabbing reported at Amazon facility in Durham, employees allowed back inside, police say
Police in Durham are investigating a stabbing at the Amazon facility on National Way.
Gunshot report leads to murder-suicide investigation in North Carolina
MORRISVILLE, N.C. (WNCN) — Police in Morrisville now say that a report of gunfire Saturday afternoon was a murder-suicide in the Kitts Creek neighborhood. The incident was initially reported as shots fired just before 2:30 p.m. in the 1000 block of Hildebran Lane in northwest Morrisville, according to a Morrisville Police Department news release. Saturday […]
Woman taken to hospital after stabbing near downtown Durham Sunday afternoon
DURHAM, N.C. (WNCN) — A woman was taken to a nearby hospital after she was stabbed in Durham on Sunday afternoon, police said. The call about the stabbing was reported just before 2:40 p.m. in the 500 block of Liberty Street near downtown Durham, according to a Durham Police Department news release.
New Pool in Raleigh Providing More than Just Fresh Water to Wolfpack Elite Team
In addition to better access to an outdoor training facility, this new pool also expands Wolfpack Elite's community based programs. Archive photo via Chris Pose. A new pool is being built in partnership with Wolfpack Elite and the city of Raleigh in North Carolina, as a 25-yard-by-25-meter facility that will replace the city’s 40-year-old seasonal pool at Lake...
Student Voice: A Shooting Happened Right Outside My School and the Silence is Deafening
My name is Faith West, and I am a student at Carrboro High School, I’m writing to you because I am frustrated and hurting. Recently, there was a shooting right here outside my school. What’s making it even worse is that it feels like there hasn’t been enough news coverage. To the rest of the world, it might just be another headline, but for...
Attempts to lower the rate of Black maternal deaths in NC face new challenges
The path leading to the track at a Durham middle school on Saturday was marked with signs bearing the names of Black women who died from pregnancy-related causes. Walkers and runners participating in a fundraiser for MAAME, or a Durham nonprofit that offers doula care, walked past the signs, reminders of the tragedies that the organization is working to prevent.
Town and Country: The Dark Side of the Fourth
May the 4th has become a pop-culture celebration of all things Star Wars, riffing on the elemental benediction of that mythology, “may the Force be with you.” As someone who saw the original film 17 times in 1977, this columnist is not here to ignite a primary against any such celebration.
