Perdue vetoes budget bill, first of new legislature
By Mike Shammas | February 24, 2011Gov. Bev Perdue’s relationship with the newly-elected North Carolina legislature is off to a rocky start.
Gov. Bev Perdue’s relationship with the newly-elected North Carolina legislature is off to a rocky start.
Durham resident Bill Anderson is fighting crime and he is doing it with nothing more than a video camera.
For the second consecutive year, overall crime levels fell in Durham.
After a report of two suspicious packages at the Duke University Press office in Brightleaf Square Monday morning, Durham Police Department officials declared the situation to be “all-clear” later...
Recent ominous comments from one controversial law enforcement official have drawn some attention to Durham gangs, a subject local officials make few statements about.
With a Republican majority in the North Carolina General Assembly for the first time in more than a century, Democratic legislators of Durham County may have to consider altering their goals for...
Governor Bev Perdue unveiled a budget proposal Thursday that would cleave $3.2 billion from state spending over the next two years, slashing 10,000 state jobs but protecting education funding.
Governor Bev Perdue has had a rough six months.
The Ronald McDonald House of Durham on campus plans to “supersize” itself.
Democratic Gov. Bev Perdue gave the Republican-controlled North Carolina legislature a glimpse of her budget proposal Monday in her State of the State address.
Three years after two offenders on probation were implicated in the deaths of Duke’s Abhijit Mahato and UNC’s Eve Carson, North Carolina has striven to revamp its probations enforcement system,...
Washington Post correspondent and Duke alumnus Craig Whitlock is trying to write a story—a story with no sequence of events, no confirmed setting and no semblance of certainty. And he is doing so...
Since she began looking for work in January 2010, Durham resident Alexandria Dandridge has only been offered one interview.
Durham is about “creating connections” in 2011, Mayor Bill Bell said Monday night.
It’s official: The 2012 Democratic National Convention will be held in Charlotte, N.C.
In what was the first meeting of its kind in over 20 years, the Durham County Board of Commissioners convened in special session Monday and Tuesday to discuss the next phase of Durham County’s...
After a significant loss of outside funding, Duke has less money and fewer people dedicated to engaging the Durham community.
For North Carolina residents, the ability to smoke “legal marijuana”—a substance known as K2—and similar substances may soon come to an end.
The pairing of several Democrats and Republicans at Tuesday’s State of the Union address provided a visual representation of President Barack Obama’s high hopes for bipartisanship.
Eric Becoats is starting off his second semester with a new plan and a lot of buzz.