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Creedmoor Police officers Lt. Seth Bryan and Sgt. Joshua Garrett received the FBI LEEDA Trilogy Award at a board meeting, recognizing their completion of advanced law enforcement leadership training.

Duke Student Government senators met Wednesday to ratify Krzyzewskiville tenting policy for the 2025-26 academic year and confirm its elected first-year senators. Line monitors will replace the early walk-up form, which previously helped groups pre-register for games, with in-person walk-up lines for every game....

Durham will be temporarily transforming its downtown streets into a pedestrian wonderland for the Move-A-Bull City Open Streets event on October 5, from noon to 4 p.m. For a few hours, the urban landscape of Blackwell, Corcoran, and Foster Streets will be reclaimed by residents of all ages as cars give way to...

A developer will enhance its sediment control measures and pay to conserve more than 60 acres of land in southeast Durham as part of a settlement with an environmental watchdog organization. In September 2023, Sound Rivers sued Mungo Homes alleging that its construction of the 216-acre Sweetbrier development in...

DURHAM, N.C. (WNCN) — Two SUVs were shot into a day apart from each other in Durham. The latest shooting happened on Wednesday in the 2000 block of East Pettigrew Street, a block from South Briggs Avenue. According to the Durham Police Department, an SUV with a woman and...

It was the middle of August, and orientation was wrapping up for new students accepted into the Biosciences Collaborative for Research Engagement (BioCoRE) program, which helps graduate students gain career skills and progress through their doctoral degree at the School of Medicine. The students and the program’s...

A Durham man was arrested Wednesday in a weekend hit-and-run that fatally injured a pedestrian at a bus stop. Wilmer Marcotulio Fuentes-Mejia, 30, is charged with felony hit and run causing serious injury or death in the Saturday crash , court records show. Richard Ferguson Jr., 61, of Durham was struck about 10:45...

The state Department of Health and Human Services has shown some progress in meeting court-ordered deadlines to make sure community services are available to people with intellectual or developmental disabilities, but an advocacy group questions what the state data can prove. The court order is the result of a...

Durham celebrates Pride twice a year. The first festivities are in June, alongside the rest of the country; the second come in the first fall weekend of September. The unconventional tradition originates from a local tragedy. On April 12, 1981, Ronald Antonevitch, a 46-year-old Durham resident, was beaten to death...

The One Big, Beautiful Bill Act significantly cut funding for Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Programs, affecting over 1.4 million North Carolinian residents and businesses, including a local community staple: the Durham Farmers’ Market. The Durham Farmers’ Market uses SNAP to increase potential customers’...