Part of the fallout or not? At this point, the reason for the departure of N.C. Department of Public Safety Chief Operating Officer Ellis Boyle is unclear. But Boyle’s resignation—effective Monday, according to a DPS release today—comes as agency officials confirm seven prison officials have lost their jobs in the wake of the death of […]
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A second resignation in inmate death case [updated Wednesday]
Update: Wednesday morning at 10:24: The N.C. Department of Public Safety announced this morning that five people have been fired in addition to the two resignations discussed in this story, for a total of seven correctional employees. A second prison worker at Alexander Correctional Institution in Taylorsville has resigned after an inmate died while being […]
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Mentally ill inmate dead on arrival at Central Prison in Raleigh (updated)
Late Tuesday afternoon, the N.C. Department of Public Safety announced it had launched an investigation into the death of Michael Kerr, who was in the custody of law enforcement when he died. We posted the DPS press release at the end of this story. It had been weeks since Katrenia Robinson had last seen her […]
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DENR cites Orange County landowner for illegal dump after INDY story
131 days Since the INDY filed a public records request asking for the out-of-state travel records of Gov. Pat McCrory and of his traveling companions. “We’re working on it,” the governor’s spokespeople have repeatedly said. The owners of a secret dump west of Chapel Hill have been ordered to clean up their garbage-littered plot off […]
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DENR shrugs off accident, punts to General Assembly
Here, between the mottled brown and green hues of the Haw River bank and the dam beneath the U.S. 15-501 bridge, a man has scrawled a message on a rusted metal pipe to his late father. “I love you, dad. Thanks for bringing me here as a kid 45 years ago. R.I.P. poppa. Best dad […]
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After revamps, success rate of Carrboro Revolving Loan Fund improves
When Bridget Pemberton-Smith and her twin sister Wendy, co-owners of Cameron’s gift store, considered moving from University Mall in Chapel Hill, they looked across the Triangle. They even looked outside the Triangle, but eventually settled on a space in Carrboro, reopening in the fall at 370 E. Main St. Give partial credit to the Town […]
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Consultant critiques Chatham Park’s lack of vision
For months, citizen groups and environmental groups have railed against the plans for Chatham Park, a proposed mixed-use development east of Pittsboro that would increase the population of the rural Chatham County town twelve-fold in the next 30 to 40 years. During Monday’s meeting of the Pittsboro Board of Commissioners, those critics heard many of […]
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DENR covers its ash
By the numbers: McCrory, Duke Energy and coal ash Feb. 6: Date on which an attorney with the Waterkeeper Alliance, a clean-water advocacy group, discovered an ongoing leak of coal ash into the Dan River from Duke Energy’s ash pit upstream of where this month’s massive spill occurred. Feb. 11: Date on which N.C. Department […]
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Senator to Duke Energy: Thanks for “pro-active” response to coal ash spill
On Monday, Sen. Stan Bingham, a seven-term Republican lawmaker from Davidson County, thanked a Duke Energy executive for the energy giant’s “pro-active” response to the ongoing controversy over its coal ash spill in the Rockingham County city of Eden. Not everyone at Monday’s session of the N.C. General Assembly’s Environmental Review Commission was so forgiving, […]
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State officials investigate Orange County dump
A blue Chevrolet Apache, one of dozens of abandoned vintage cars, is fading, its windows shattered. Toilets litter the ground like porcelain tombstones. Rust-covered metal drums mingle with dead leaves. Decaying wooden shacks, their roofs slouched with age, sit amid piles of wooden debris. And a piece of metal juts, like the snout of some […]
