Update: Here’s the full schedule sent to the State Board of Elections on August 18. The Durham County board of elections enterim director described the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals opinion this month on North Carolina’s voter I.D. law “abrupt,” but the board is doing what it can to make the best of a less-than-desirable […]
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Durham Judge Moves Custody Hearing Out of County, Appeals Court Returns Case to Durham
Custody hearings can be complicated enough to begin with—but one case in Durham County is especially co mplicated because the children in question could be sent back to El Salvador where their father is alleged to be connected to Mara 18, a “gang that controls many communities and subjects local residents to violence and terror.” […]
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Durham Homicides Up 31 Percent over Last Year
Two months ago, C.J. Davis took the helm of the Durham Police Department. On Monday night, she got her first chance to show off her top-cop chops as she clued the city council into the latest crime report. It contained no surprises, but there was a glimmer of good news. Aggravated assaultswhich have been on […]
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Durham Officials Hope to Replicate a Raleigh Gang Truce
Police chief Cerelyn “C.J.” Davis made her way to the front of a quiet meeting room inside the Criminal Justice Resource Center on East Main Street. “Can I touch you?” she asked a man in a black T-shirt. He was sitting hunched over in his chair, focusing on the meeting’s speakers, who were talking about […]
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Durham Chief Addresses Shootings, Disparities, and Pot During First Crime Report
The problems that permeated Jose Lopez’s tenure as Durham’s police chief spilled over in C.J. Davis’s time as police chief—and rightly so. It’s been seventy-one days since Davis took her oath of office, and on Monday night, she showed the city council she has the chops to address problems that were placed on her shoulders […]
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Durham Ponders Possible Pot Enforcement Priorities with Push From FADE
As some states continue to deprioritize, or even decriminalize marijuana, Thursday the Drug Enforcement Administration denied bids from Rhode Gov. Gina Raimondo, Washington Gov. Jay Inslee and a New Mexico nurse practitioner Bryan Krumm to loosen up federal restrictions on marijuana. Marijuana, as reaffirmed, is a Schedule I drug. The Controlled Substance Act puts it […]
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Durham Co-op Continues to Sell Driscoll’s Berries, Tells Customers to “Shop Your Values”
After getting questions about whether or not the Durham Co-op would continue to stock Driscoll’s berries at the store, the market issued a statement telling shoppers to “shop your values” because in order to keep berries in the store it’d have to keep Driscoll’s on the shelf. The Co-op was asked to boycott the berry […]
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With Land Purchased, Scrap Exchange Can Move Ahead on Expansion Plans
The Scrap Exchange’s plan to buy all ten acres of land where the Lakewood Shopping Center and expand its reuse empire is one step closer to becoming a reality this week. This morning the reuse art center announced on its Facebook that the purchase was made—ten acres, 82,000 square feet of leasable space—for $2.5 million. […]
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With Bond Money Raised, Wildin Acosta Can Come Home
Supporters of Riverside High School student Wildin Acosta, who’s spent the last six months in a Georgia detention facility, helped raise over $10,000 this week to get him back to Durham. Acosta was picked up by immigration officials on his way to school in late January after not appearing before an immigration judge. He and […]
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Durham Residents Question DPS’s Plans for the School Bond
In the continuing battle to get more funding for schools, Durham Public Schools is facing harsh criticism from residents. Earlier this summer, the county commission and the school board sparred over how much money DPS would get from the $170 million bond referendum slated for the November ballot. Commissioners signed off on almost $91 million. […]