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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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
Short, cryptic online messages sent before the bizarre death of an Apex High School student hint of jealousy, veiled threats and a dark scheme unraveling. Seven days into the trial of Ryan Patrick Hare, 19, who is accused of murdering Apex teen Matthew Silliman, forensic investigators continued to take the stand Tuesday to fill in […]
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A caretaker for autistic children in Johnston County was in jail this morning after authorities said he left three autistic children alone in a care home. Steven Devon Allicott, 34, of 1411 Windy Crest Court, Raleigh, was arrested Monday night and charged with three counts of misdemeanor child abuse, according to arrest warrants filed in […]
It took legislators three tries to settle on regulatory language that was just right – not too socialistic, please, and not too free-market – to tame North Carolina’s mischievous plague of fat license-plate frames. Enacted in 2009, the law was modified twice this year. It bans frames that obscure the basic information on your auto […]
The Foxy Family Picnic Concert was absolutely phenomenal. Charlie Wilson, Chrisette Michelle and Will Downing did not fail to surpass the expectations of the awe struck audience
