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WNCN
February 11, 2018
RALEIGH, N.C. (WNCN) — Saturday, dozens gathered for the three year anniversary of the deaths of Deah Barakat, Yusor Abu-Salha, and Razan Abu-Salha. Deah Barakat and Yusor Abu-Salha were newlyweds while Razan was Yusor's sister. Police say the three were murdered at their home by CraigÃÂ ...
News & Observer
February 11, 2018
It wasn't too long ago that Jason Brown had a multimillion-dollar contract to play as a center in the NFL. So some might find it odd that the North Carolina native and former UNC standout had 40,000 pounds of sweet potatoes dumped on the Chapel Hill campus, as tweets from the university showedÃÂ ...
News & Observer
February 8, 2018
A new version of a bill to address North Carolina's GenX pollution issue passed a Senate committee Wednesday night, clearing the way for a vote soon. ... of the House bill, which would have given the NC Department of Environmental Quality money to buy a piece of equipment called a mass spectrometer.
Durham Herald Sun
February 8, 2018
Orange County's legislators could ask the General Assembly this spring to set a deadline for UNC to move the Confederate statue Silent Sam to a safe place. State Rep. Verla Insko plans to sponsor the bill in this year's short legislative session, which begins in May. State Rep. Graig Meyer and State Sen.
News & Observer
January 11, 2018
North Carolina had eight green light campuses in the 2018 study – more than any other state. The campuses earning that designation were: Appalachian State University, Duke University, East Carolina University, N.C. Central University and UNC-Chapel Hill, UNC-Charlotte, UNC-Greensboro andÃÂ ...
The Daily Tar Heel
January 10, 2018
Both Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools and Orange County Schools are facing a funding crisis due to proposed legislation that would reduce the size of ... The CHCCS district would require many new teachers to teach smaller classes at a time when North Carolina schools struggle to compete with out ofÃÂ ...
UNC News
January 10, 2018
(Chapel Hill, N.C.— Jan. 10, 2018) – The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill will host a panel of the AIDS Memorial Quilt from Jan. 10-31 in the West Lounge of the Frank Porter Graham Student Union. Carolina student Elizabeth Trefney and her family organized the effort to bring the panel, whichÃÂ ...
UNC News
January 10, 2018
(Chapel Hill, N.C. – Jan. 10, 2018) – The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the Town of Chapel Hill today announced a new joint initiative, “Party, Police Free.” Modeled after programs at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, Colorado State University and the University of Colorado Boulder,ÃÂ ...
UNC News
January 8, 2018
(Chapel Hill, N.C.— Jan. 8, 2018) – The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill will host several events as part of the 2018 Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration Week. The theme ... North Carolina native and former U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch will deliver this year's MLK Keynote Lecture on Jan. 18.
The Root
January 3, 2018
LeRoy Frasier, Black Student Who Helped Desegregate University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Dead at 80 ... Frasier, his brother Ralph and John Lewis Brandon were all students at Hillside High School in Durham, N.C., when they took the chance to apply at the still-segregated UNC-Chapel Hill inÃÂ ...
WTVD-TV
December 31, 1999
CHAPEL HILL, NC (WTVD) --. The Chapel Hill Police Department has arrested two men in connection with an armed robbery Tuesday afternoon. Joshua Allen Chavis, 28, of Raleigh, and Sean Thomas Klinek, 27, of Apex, were both charged with robbery with a dangerous weapon and conspiracy to commitÃÂ ...
WRAL.com
September 2, 2017
Houston — A UNC-Chapel Hill graduate and North Carolina native who moved his family to Houston from Charlotte two years ago finds himselfÃÂ ...
WRAL.com
September 2, 2017
Chapel Hill, N.C. — Backpacks on, morning classes over, Jennifer Cooper and Lydia Cooper walk across the University of North Carolina atÃÂ ...
News & Observer
September 2, 2017
UNC-Chapel Hill authorities on Thursday removed signs, benches, tables and ... North Carolina law, passed in 2015, forbids the removal of the statue ... The N.C. Historical Commission has to weigh in on changes to any theÃÂ ...
KHQ Right Now
September 2, 2017
Driving home from her job as a professor at University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, Dr. Lynn Owens, felt a surprise. "In my car, I feel somethingÃÂ ...
WRAL.com
September 1, 2017
N.C. — Officers with the Chapel Hill Police Department responded to a report of a sexual assault that occurred in a wooded area near Drew HillÃÂ ...
WRAL.com
September 1, 2017
Chapel Hill, N.C. — A Mebane man was arrested Thursday in connection with a May shooting in Chapel Hill. Cordell Obryan Baldwin, 27,ÃÂ ...
WRAL.com
September 1, 2017
Chapel Hill, N.C. — The UNC-Chapel Hill Panhellenic Council has postponed sorority recruitment due to an outbreak of norovirus-likeÃÂ ...
WRAL.com
September 1, 2017
Chapel Hill, N.C. — UNC Health Care officials said Thursday that they ... review the proposed merger to ensure that it benefits North CarolinaÃÂ ...
News & Observer
March 25, 2017
Explore a Piedmont hardwood forest and look for signs of spring at the Springtime on Nature Trail Hill program from 2-4 p.m. at the North Carolina Botanical Garden, 100 Old Mason Farm Road, Chapel Hill. Cost: $5 per family. To register, go to bit.ly ...
WRAL.com
March 25, 2017
UNC-Chapel Hill students danced around the clock Friday into Saturday to raise money for the North Carolina Children's Hospital.
Triad Business Journal
March 24, 2017
In 2016, more than $104.8 million streamed into the city through NIH grants. A number of universities - including Duke University, UNC-Chapel Hill and N.C. State University - hover near the top of the list of North Carolina recipients, which also ...
UNC News
March 24, 2017
On Friday evening, more than 1,800 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill students will come together to stand - and dance - for 24 hours to help the patients of UNC Children's hospital.
WNCN
March 24, 2017
The Orange County Board of Adjustment recently decided The Barn of Chapel Hill is a bona-fide farm where there's bona-fide farming happening, but the barn cannot be used to host some gatherings, such as weddings, without a special use permit.
The Daily Tar Heel
March 23, 2017
GREENSBORO, N.C. - Marcus Paige couldn't help but smile. He stepped on the court Thursday ... Joining up in the D-League wasn't the future Paige and Johnson dreamed of in Chapel Hill, but it was awesome all the same. "The plan was for us to be on theÃÂ ...
The Daily Tar Heel
March 22, 2017
One year after the passage of House Bill 2, the Chapel Hill and Orange County Visitors Bureau estimates Chapel Hill and Carrboro have lost $2.5 million in total revenue, communications director Patty Griffin said in an email.
WNCN
March 22, 2017
CHAPEL HILL, N.C. (WNCN) - Forty years after it first opened, the Children's Store in Chapel Hill is closing its doors for good.
News & Observer
March 21, 2017
Acclaimed art scholar Lynne Cooke discusses the art of Ronald Lockett at 5:30 p.m. Wednesday, March 22, at the Ackland Art Museum, UNC-Chapel Hill. Above is an untitled work from the Ackland exhibit "Fever Within: The Art of Ronald Lockett," which runsÃÂ ...
UNC News
March 21, 2017
Who is a woman at Carolina who inspires you? In honor of Women's History Month, we asked that question to nearly two-dozen students and faculty and staff members on campus.
News & Observer
March 21, 2017
The Chapel Hill Retirement Center, for people 55 and up, is the first project approved for the town's Central West district, a small development district east of the Martin Luther King Jr.
SECcountry.com
March 19, 2017
The locale, in theory, would be beneficial to North Carolina. The UNC-Chapel Hill campus is about four hours away. But considering Duke and South Carolina will play in the game at Bon Secours Wellness Arena following Heels-Hogs, those two crowds mayÃÂ ...
UNC News
March 17, 2017
Scientists at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have pinpointed a key genetic switch that helps soil bacteria living on and inside a plant's roots harvest a vital nutrient with limited global supply.
Chapelboro.com
March 17, 2017
"Now therefore be it resolved by the council of the town of Chapel Hill that the North Carolina General Assembly should establish and immediately conduct an independent redistricting process that includes the principles of diversity, along with a ...
News & Observer
March 16, 2017
Troy Arrington (far left, rear) casts a last glance back at family and friends before exiting the Orange County Courthouse courtroom in which he'd just been sentenced to life in prison for the murder of UNC-Chapel Hill professor Feng Liu on Thursday ...
WRAL.com
March 16, 2017
State Superintendent Mark Johnson continued his statewide listening tour at Ephesus Elementary School in Chapel Hill on Wednesday.
UNC News
March 16, 2017
In August 1950, Elizabeth L. Kemble took a road trip across North Carolina. She traveled nearly 600 miles from Murphy to Manteo, stopping at filling stations, professional offices, and stores along the way to chat with her new state neighbors.
WNCN
March 15, 2017
CHAPEL HILL, N.C. (WNCN) - The head of education for the state is touring local schools to see how technology works in the classroom.
UNC News
March 15, 2017
(Chapel Hill, N.C. - March 15, 2017) - Scientists at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have pinpointed a key genetic switch that helps soil bacteria living on and inside a plant's roots harvest a vital nutrient with limited global supply ...
UNC News
March 15, 2017
(Chapel Hill, N.C. - March 15, 2017) - Terms such as no-fat or no-sugar, low-fat or reduced-salt on food packaging may give consumers a sense of confidence before they purchase, but these claims rarely reflect the actual nutritional quality of the food ...
UNC News
March 14, 2017
(Chapel Hill, N.C. - March 14, 2017) - The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill received high ratings on multiple lists of schools, degree programs and specialty areas newly ranked by U.S.
News & Observer
March 12, 2017
He became the Chair of the Department of Radiology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1966 and taught at the medical school until three days before his death.
U.S. News & World Report
March 12, 2017
GASTONIA, N.C. (AP) - Sixty-five years ago, Gwendolyn Harrison Smith was told because of the color of her skin she could not attend the University of NorthÃÂ ...
News & Observer
March 11, 2017
An informational seminar on Medicare is 6-7:30 p.m. at Chapel Hill Public Library, 100 Library Drive. Sponsored by the Orange County Department on Aging and the North Carolina Seniors' Health Insurance Information Program. ... The Chapel Hill Police ...
News & Observer
March 9, 2017
She always wanted to be a social worker, Cheek told the Chapel Hill News in a 2011 interview. She was honored for her service with many leadership awards over the years, including being named a Town Treasure in 2009 by the Chapel Hill HistoricalÃÂ ...
WNCN
March 9, 2017
CHAPEL HILL, N.C. (WNCN) - Town of Chapel Hill officials say power has been restored to more than 200 customers and Cameron Avenue from Wilson Street to Mallette Street has been reopened.
The Daily Tar Heel
March 8, 2017
Bob Baranick, who once worked on iconic Disney rides like Splash Mountain, is developing a new park in North Carolina. The park, Whirligig Woods, will be located in Saxapahaw, about 17 miles from Chapel Hill. According to Baranick's website, WhirligigÃÂ ...
Bradenton Herald
March 8, 2017
Donald Trump's election and some of his administration's early decisions have caused friction between liberal and conservative students on college campuses across the United States, including in North Carolina, a key battleground state Trump won. Many ...
WNCN
March 8, 2017
By CBS North Carolina Published: March 8, 2017, 4:58 pm Updated: March 8, 2017, 5:00 pm ... CHAPEL HILL, N.C. (WNCN) - Chapel Hill police arrested a 47-year-old man they said robbed a PNC bank on East Rosemary Street Tuesday afternoon.
WRAL.com
March 8, 2017
Chapel Hill, N.C. - Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools canceled classes on Wednesday because dozens of teachers and staff planned to take part in protests as part of the nationwide Day Without a Woman.
WRAL.com
March 8, 2017
Chapel Hill, N.C. - Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools canceled classes on Wednesday because dozens of teachers and staff planned to take part in protests as part of the nationwide Day Without Women.
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