Read more Overview of the audit numbers and players Download PDFs • NCCU HMCUC Audit • Media statement from NCCU • Letter to faculty, staff and students from NCCU Chancellor Nelms Cheryl Thomas is trained in scrutiny, in fitting puzzling details together until they make sense. So when Thomas, a licensed private investigator and the […]
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State delays chemical cleanup at former BB&T bank to July 11
File photo by Jeremy M. LangeThis site of a former dry cleaner on Club Boulevard later housed a church. Durham officials condemned the building due to chemical contamination. Due to a scheduling conflict with a contractor, officials with the N.C. Department of Environment and Natural Resources say they have delayed the demolition of a building […]
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Durham City Council undecided on 751 development
Members of Durham’s City Council had been waiting five months to see a financial analysis of the potential cost of annexing land slated for the controversial 751 South development. But after digesting 3-inch binders full of color-coded charts, memos and maps for about two hours Monday, the council decided it needswelljust a few more charts […]
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Catotti to run for third Durham City Council term; three at-large seats on the ballot
www.dianecatotti.comCatotti Filing for Durham City Council municipal candidates hasn’t yet begun, but current Councilwoman Diane Catotti confirmed Monday that despite earlier plans to give up her seat in December, she now plans to run for her third term. Catotti, who works in international health, has three children who will be starting college in the next […]
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Durham voters to weigh transit, education taxes on November ballot
Durham’s Board of County Commissioners approved resolutions Monday night to offer two new sales taxes on nonessential goods for approval on November’s ballot. Both taxes—1/2 of a penny for transit and 1/4 of a penny for education—would help fill in gaps in state-level funding further widened by this year’s General Assembly, which voted to end […]
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It’s official: Heron announces she’ll resign Aug. 1
Durham Commissioner Becky Heron, 83, will resign Aug. 1 to spend more time with family. It’s been almost 30 years since she was first elected to Durham’s Board of County Commissioners. Now, Commissioner Becky Heron, 83, says she’s ready to step down from her seat, effective Aug. 1, to take some time for herself and […]
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Students file complaints against Art Institute with N.C. attorney general
Like many college freshmen across the country, Bernard Akenabor says he spent a lot of time partying when he arrived at East Carolina University and not so much time studying. After just a semester, his father summoned the teen home to Raleigh to go to a closer university. But when Akenabor wanted to return to […]
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Greenfire on the hot seat
Public meeting about Liberty Warehouse Thursday, June 16, 5:30 p.m. in Conference Room GA on the ground floor of City Hall, 101 City Hall Plaza City officials are expected to release a report this week on whether a gutted building at 120 W. Main St. in downtown Durham should remain without a roof, or if […]
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When it rains, it pours: more leaks for Greenfire?
Three weeks after the collapse of the roof at Liberty Warehouse on Rigsbee Avenue, two more properties controlled by Durham-based Greenfire Development could be under scrutiny for leaky roofs. The city’s building inspectors received a report Thursday about water leaks at two warehouses on Foster Street, said Rick Hester, assistant director of Durham Neighborhood Improvement […]
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Despite pending charges, Los Primos owner applies for new alcohol sales permit
When we spoke with Los Primos owner Miguel Collado in March about how the widening of Alston Avenue could affect his grocery at the corner of East Main Street and Alston Avenue, he was hesitant to talk. Los Primos had been one of five convenience stores whose employees had been charged in February with selling […]
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