A 7-year-old girl was shot and killed at a home in Detroit early Sunday when a police officer’s gun discharged during a search for a man suspected in the shooting death of a local teenage boy, police said. Detroit Police Assistant Chief Ralph Godbee said an officer executing a search warrant with the department’s Special […]
VIA: WTVD.COM A male student was hit by a school bus on Guess Road in northern Durham County Friday. Investigators said two students were roughhousing next to the road when one of them ended up on the road in the path of the bus. The boy’s injuries are serious, but not life threatening. The North […]
VIA: THEDURHAMNEWS.COM What is the value of a community media outlet for a community-minded town like Durham? In this age of media consolidation and an ever growing digital divide, Durham Community Media represents an electronic green space free from commercial and political influences. Spaces like Channel 18 help promote dialogue, increase democratic participation and help […]
(Via CNN) — The top proponent of the new Arizona law targeting the state’s ethnic studies programs defends the controversial measure, which bans ethnic studies classes that “promote resentment” of other racial groups. State Schools Superintendent Tom Horne told CNN’s “American Morning” on Thursday that the legislation is “designed to get schools to teach kids […]
VIA: WNCN.COM As you lie on your pillow at night, you could be sleeping with the enemy. “Somewhere around 85 percent of homes will have detectable dust mites,” Dr. Darryl Zeldin, clinical director of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, said. Dust mites may be microscopic, but the health problems they cause for some […]
VIA: WTVD.COM Police are looking for a man who points a gun at women while exposing himself. Hope Mills Police say residents who live in the Fairway Forest neighborhood are on edge after a woman came face to face with a naked man in her back yard. “A lady was going to her garage when […]
VIA: CNN.COM A Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, police officer who told authorities he was shot while on patrol last month has admitted he shot himself intentionally, the city’s police commissioner said Tuesday. Sgt. Robert Ralston reported that on April 5 he saw two African-American males arguing on a train track in West Philadelphia. He told investigators that […]
VIA: WTVD.COM Federal experts say a small earthquake has struck near the South Carolina coast. The U.S. Geological Survey reported the quake occurred near Lincolnville shortly after 5 a.m. Tuesday morning. The quake had a magnitude of 2.8. There have been no reports of damage or injuries. Multiple media outlets reported that residents around Summerville, […]
VIA: WRAL.COM Gas prices are poised to fall as Memorial Day approaches, a welcome change for motorists who have gotten used to seeing increases cut into their summer vacation money. Experts who had been predicting a national average of more than $3 per gallon by Memorial Day now say prices have likely peaked just beneath […]
ON THE GULF OF MEXICO – Political patience is washing away for BP executives who can’t stop a broken underwater well from spewing oil into the Gulf, where crews were trying the latest solution — submerging a second containment box designed to funnel the gusher to a waiting tanker. In back-to-back U.S. Senate inquiries on […]
VIA: CNN.COM Army doctor Lt. Col. Terry Lakin refuses to deploy to Afghanistan because he considers orders from President Obama to be ‘illegal.’ He believes Obama does not meet the constitutional requirements to be president and commander-in-chief, because he believes that Obama wasn’t born in the United States. VIEW VIDEO
VIA: WTVD.COM Wake County is moving quickly to finance more than $300 million for a new jail and justice center to save $22 million in interest costs, but they want to delay the opening of new libraries. Wake County Commissioners borrowed $355 million for the jail and justice center without asking for voter approval. Now, […]