VIA: ABCNEWS.COM Meet Stink. He’s got glands that release a foul, musty odor when he’s mishandled or feels threatened. He’s just in from Asia and he’s disguised as a small brown shield. But don’t let that fool you. He’s not the one who’ll need to be intercepting attacks this Fall. Rather, while the people of […]
Two days after being confronted by ABC News, Bank of America has fired a debt collection agency after several of its operators were caught using racist and obscene phone calls to collect debts from bank customers. “What’s up, you f—ing n—r?” said one of the collection agents in a message to 32-year old Allen Jones […]
He couldn’t go to medical school in New York, so James McCune Smith went to Scotland for his degree and returned home to treat the city’s poor.
It’s a story as old as time: adultery, anguish and atonement. Last Tuesday, when news broke of U.S. Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr.’s extramarital relationship with a blond nightclub hostess — kryptonite in the world of the African-American woman — his wife, Ald. Sandi Jackson, inserted a little laughter into the public disclosure.
The richest man in North Carolina continues to reign not only in the state but on the list of the richest people in the U.S. as well. The latest Forbes list of the 400 richest Americans ranks SAS co-founder and CEO Jim Goodnight at number 35, with a net worth of about $6.9 billion. He […]
The North Carolina Zoo is once again considered one of the best zoos in the world. That’s the findings of the Association of Zoos and Aquariums. The Association of Zoos and Aquariums CEO, Jim Maddy said the zoo meets the groups highest standards. Maddy praised the zoo after announcing his organization has again awarded accreditation […]
The undergraduate tutor linked to North Carolina’s investigation of possible academic misconduct in the football program did not have her contract renewed in summer 2009 because “there was too much of a friendship between her and the players,” UNC Chancellor Holden Thorp told the university Board of Trustees on Thursday. “They’re only supposed to do […]
Demario Atwater will spend the rest of his life in federal prison for killing UNC-Chapel Hill Student Body President Eve Carson in 2008. Atwater, of Durham, received a life sentence on a charge of kidnapping resulting in death and a 10-year sentence on a separate charge of discharging a weapon resulting in death, plus another […]
The extra pay will increase incomes for more than 30,000 local workers at UNC Health Care Systems and provide some boost for the region’s economy, giving families more money to spend as the holidays approach. But the raises come as the federal health overhaul puts more pressure on the medical industry to reduce expenses, and […]
A miscommunication among a juror, a bailiff and a judge caused a midafternoon scramble Thursday in the Wake County courtroom where Ryan Patrick Hare has been on trial for two weeks. Hare, 19, is accused of masterminding an odd plot to end the life of Matthew Silliman, an Apex teen who had been a rival […]