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DURHAM – Durham’s school board appears divided over offering incentive pay to teachers and administrators at the low-performing Y.E. Smith Elementary School and Hillside High School as part of about $12 million in federal grant money aimed at improving student performance. At a board meeting this week, Chairwoman Minnie Forte-Brown described using part of the […]

 The little team that could’ve, didn’t. This season was the first time N.C. Central, an undersized squad in the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference, could have danced with the big boys, the first time NCCU coach LeVelle Moton had the opportunity to send the school — his alma mater, where as an Eagle he soared and scored — […]

Just in case you forgot or didn’t realize you were suppose to…….set your clocks and/or watches up 1 hour; don’t forget the clock in your vehicle.

One year ago the Millbrook girls basketball team left the floor of the Dean E. Smith Center in Chapel Hill in tears after losing to Southwest Guilford in the state championship game. When the Wildcats left Reynolds Coliseum on Saturday one year later, they were all smiles though. Millbrook pulled away in the fourth quarter […]

Karron Johnson had 17 points as Shaw downed Indiana (PA) 62-54 in the opening round of the Division II Men’s Basketball Tournament held at West Liberty University. With the win, the seventh-ranked Bears improve to 26-3 on the season. They are the second seed in the Atlantic Region. Indiana (PA), the seventh seed in the […]

Although his NBA tenure never reached the heights of his college stardom, Christian Laettner had a pretty successful 13 years in the pros, making the All-Star game in 1997 and finishing with a career PER of 16.9. He also made more than $61 million in salary, theoretically enough to set him up for life. However, […]

Brandon Jacobs said he would “love” to play for Jets coach Rex Ryan — despite verbally abusing him the last time the two faced each other at MetLife Stadium, the New York Post reported Saturday. A fired-up Jacobs shouted “It’s time to shut up, fat boy!” directly into Ryan’s ear after the Giants administered a […]

SEATTLE — A corrections officer is facing bigamy charges after authorities said a Washington woman using Facebook discovered that she and a potential “friend” were married to him at the same time. According to charging documents filed Thursday, Alan L. O’Neill married a woman in 2001, moved out in 2009, changed his name and remarried […]

Join Big Brothers Big Sisters of the Triangle for ACC championship fun on Sunday, March 11, from 12:30 until 3:30 p.m. at Tyler’s Restaurant & Taproom in the American Tobacco Historic located a324 Blackwell St., # 400. Big Brothers Big Sisters is hosting a kickoff event for its 100 Men in 100 Days campaign challenging […]

Get ready to loose an hour of sleep this weekend. At 2 a.m. on March 11, 2012, sleepy eyed Americans will turn their clocks forward one hour, marking the beginning of Daylight Saving Time. This year, daylight saving time will run from March 11 until Nov. 4, unless you’re in Arizona, Hawaii, Puerto Rico or […]

via WRAL Twelve contestants remain on American Idol after Jeremy Rosado was voted off. Jeremy Rosado joined Elise Testone in the bottom, which represented the  female and the male with the lowest votes by viewers.  The final decision were based on the judges who spared Elise, which left Jeremy out.  http://www.wral.com/entertainment/story/10833155/

via WRAL The “Rembrandt in America” exhibition had a significant economic impact for the city of Raleigh.  More than $350,000 in local tax revenue resulted from food and beverage and sales taxes and more than $600,000 in state sales taxes. The exhibition brought in visitors nationwide. There were 150,905 attendees. http://www.wral.com/news/local/noteworthy/story/10835621/