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 […]
The latest RTDNA/Hofstra University Annual Survey found that the percentage of minority news directors rose in both television and radio in 2009 but, overall, the percentage of minorities in both radio and television fell for the third straight year, although the drop in television was small.
I once worked for an Iranian woman as her personal assistant. She was strict, stubborn, and tough. In other words, she was a bitch. But she was a bitch that was about her business. So, for that, I respected her. Well, at least I did until she made a comment about my speech. One day […]
New photos purportedly show Atlanta megachurch pastor Eddie Long posing in a bathroom mirror with muscle shirts. The photos were allegedly sent to at least one of the three young men who have filed lawsuits against Long in recent days for sexual harassment. In one photo, Long is shown wearing a sleeveless black muscle shirt […]
RALEIGH — A powerful accreditation agency has threatened to immediately remove its certification from Wake County’s high schools unless the school system cooperates with its review. In a letter to the school system, Kenneth Bergman, the general counsel for Advancing Excellence in Education Worldwide, or AdvancED, writes that the agency is concerned about the “openly […]
President Obama, after being warned repeatedly by his advisers about the threat of another terror attack on U.S. soil, said in an interview two months ago that the United States could “absorb” another strike.
A Wake County man is in jail this morning accused of assault with an ink pen. Ronald Stacey Rhodes, of 1300 Farm Road, Lot 3, Raleigh, was arrested today and charged with one count of assault inflicting serious injury, according to an arrest warrant filed with the Wake County Magistrate’s Office. Authorities said Rhodes, 23, […]
