Of the 48 people served so far by the city’s Welcome Home program, all but three have remained arrest-free.
Sarah Willets
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The NCGA Wants to Charge Drugs Dealers Whose Buyers Overdose and Die
Advocates say that could get more people killed.
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Shelia Huggins Wants to Make the Friends of Durham PAC Relevant Again
“Everything’s not that political. People need jobs. People need medicine—they don’t care what your label is.”
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Thousands of N.C. Teachers Make Their Voices Heard in Raleigh
Thousands of educators, parents, and teachers rallied for #RedforEd on Wednesday to demand better pay and more support in the classroom.
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PSNC Worker Injured in Durham Gas Explosion Dies
Jay Rambeaut had gone to North Duke Street on April 10 to shut off the gas.
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Federal Court Says Durham Must Separate Juveniles and Adults in County Jail
A federal judge has endorsed an agreement between county officials and the family of Uniece Fennell, who died in the jail in 2017.
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North Carolina’s Lock-’Em-Up Legislature Might Be Singing a Different Tune
About two dozen bills have been filed that could change the way North Carolina’s justice system treats people.
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Utility Will Dig On Duke Street to Determine How Durham Explosion Occurred
The state Utilities Commission is investigating how a gas line was ruptured, leading to the explosion.
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ACLU: NC’s “Ballooning” Court Costs Criminalize Poverty, Cost Counties
Judges “routinely order low-income North Carolinians—a disproportionate number of them people of color—to pay fines and fees that they cannot afford.”
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Durham Fire Department Found “No Sign of Gas” an Hour Before Explosion in Brightleaf
A 911 call reported the smell of gas on Duke Street an hour before the explosion, but responding firefighters found no evidence of it and cleared the call.