The polls closed at 7:30 p.m. on Tuesday, and with 99.32% precincts reporting, here is how the votes tallied up for North Carolina’s statewide candidates, as well as candidates running for local Durham offices with all county precincts reporting:
Council members voted 4-2 to reject a three-year contract with ShotSpotter — now known as SoundThinking — whose services drew criticism from community members and failed to pick up a drive-by shooting in January 2023 and two deadly shootings in February 2023.
Trump’s address focused primarily on securing the U.S. border with Mexico to prevent “migrant crime,” vehemently criticizing President Joseph Biden’s policies during his first term and preventing what he called a “rigged election” in 2020 from recurring in 2024.
North Carolina and 14 other states will hold primary elections Tuesday, a critical day in which 36% of Republican delegates are at stake. A High Point University poll released Friday showed that former president Donald Trump is leading the Republican presidential primary race with 69% of the vote, while Haley trails behind at 24%.
Harris’s trip came in advance of the North Carolina primary election on March 5. Republican presidential candidates Nikki Haley and Donald Trump are holding rallies on Saturday in Raleigh and Greensboro, respectively.
Durham County primary elections for board of commissioners, board of education and register of deeds will be held on March 5, ahead of the general elections on Nov. 5.
Ten pro-Israel and 30 pro-Palestinian speakers addressed the council prior to the vote. Chief among their concerns was the language of the proposed resolution: pro-Israel speakers protested the fact it did not name Hamas, while pro-Palestinian speakers thought the resolution should have called for a permanent cease-fire and labeled Israel’s actions as genocide.
The election will decide the Republican and Democratic candidates, who will advance to the Nov. 5 general election. The Chronicle has you covered with a guide on the candidates and the main issues at the forefront of voters’ minds.
Munger previously ran for governor of North Carolina in 2008 as the Libertarian Party nominee, becoming the first third party candidate to appear in a televised debate and earning nearly three percent of the vote.
The DAE believes that a meet and confer process will aid the district in “retaining Durham Public School staff and attracting highly qualified workers to join Durham Public Schools.”
The victim, who was then a nursing student at Duke, was assaulted by then-Durham High School student David Felton behind an East Campus dormitory in June 1972. Felton died in January 2024.
The report constitutes an internal review of “the issues surrounding the timeline and implementation of changes to the salary schedule for approximately 2,000 classified employees.”
The district’s entire transportation support staff called out for Friday, likely in connection with ongoing tensions related to the district withdrawing raises for classified workers upon finding that it accidentally overpaid its workers due to an accounting error between July and December 2023.
Durham Mayor Leonardo Williams praised residents’ engagement after hearing short comments from 36 community members who spoke to the council about the resolution.
The board appointed DPS Deputy Superintendent Nicholas King to assume Mubenga’s duties temporarily until an interim superintendent can be appointed.
Organized by the Durham Association of Educators, the Merrick-Moore walk-in was held concurrently with walk-ins at over 30 other Durham public schools at around 6:45 a.m. The walk-ins follow weeks of walkouts, protests and contentious board meetings.
Over 100 protesters brought a Durham City Council meeting to a standstill after interrupting the session with chants, singing and demonstrations calling for the council to adopt a resolution supporting a cease-fire in Gaza.
Durham City Council began the meeting by discussing new residence zoning areas, but the session came to a halt when one speaker, who initially began to talk about why he opposed the new zoning laws, started to call for a cease-fire.
Teachers, students, parents and classified workers from seven Durham public schools that were closed Monday assembled to make their demands heard by the DPS Board of Education. They asked for no further pay cuts and more input in DPS operations.
Seven schools closed after the Durham Association of Educators organized another Day of Protest in solidarity with classified workers, who are facing pay cuts after the district accidentally overpaid them due to an accounting error.
