The N.C. Beer & Wine Wholesalers Association threw some serious shade at North Carolina’s craft breweries today. The groups are at odds over House Bill 500, a piece of legislation filed last month that, among other things, raises the limit on how many barrels of beer a brewery can self-distribute before it must go through […]
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Durham Is North Carolina’s Hippest City, According to Vogue, Which Would Definitely Know These Things
Why? Trendy hotels, stellar food, and plenty of places to imbibe. The style magazine Vogueposted its ode to the Bull City this morning. Let’s take a gander, shall we? “Durham is perhaps known first and foremost as the home to Duke University (and its famed basketball team), but it’s becoming a destination for much more […]
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The Durham-Orange Light Rail Now Costs More Than $3 Billion, and Durham Will Have to Pay More of It
Durham City Council members experienced some sticker shock Thursday, when GoTriangle presented them with an update on the long-planned light-rail system to connect Durham and Chapel Hill. Previously, the project had been estimated at $1.8 billion, but that was in terms of dollars at the time those estimates were made. Adjusting for inflation—and a few […]
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Rahmil Ingram Was Shot By Durham Police, But He Was Charged with Assaulting Them
On January, 24, 2012, Durham police stormed Rahmil Ingram’s Colfax Street home, looking for his father. Ingram says he thought the cops were intruders breaking into the house. Officers thought Ingram, standing at the trigger-end of a shotgun, was a threat. They fired, two bullets striking Ingram’s nineteen-year-old body. Although Ingram would be the only […]
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A Durham Man With No Criminal Record Was Arrested by ICE for Being in the Wrong Place at the Wrong Time
For the past four years, Edwin Reyes-Guillen has lived a quiet life in Durham. He doesn’t go out to bars or clubs, says his older brother, Mario Ramon-Reyes. Instead, the twenty-six-year-old spends his time (when he isn’t working as a painter) chasing his giggling nieces around their parents’ apartment and his money supporting two children […]
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Friends, Family of Uniece Fennell Want the Durham County Sheriff Held Accountable for Her Death in Jail
On Friday, outside the Durham County Detention Center, chants of “shut it down” and “no justice, no peace” echoed against the jail’s exterior. Orange blurs pressed against the building’s barred windows and waved. Down below, the family and friends of Uniece Fennell, who eight days earlier was also behind those bars, waved back. Fennell, who […]
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Kenneth Bailey Jr.’s Family Says Durham Cops “Judged and Executed” Him On the Street”
The family of a man shot by Durham police in February says Kenneth Bailey Jr. was “was judged and executed on the street” and pleaded “for his life in between shots.” In a statement released Friday, the family detailed accounts it gathered from people who were in the Club Boulevard neighborhood when Bailey, who went […]
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Durham Workers’ Rights Rally Calls for Economic Justice on Anniversary of MLK’s Death
Pascha Moore has been working in the fast food industry since she was sixteen years old. She started out making $5 per hour at Hardee’s. Twenty years later, the mother of four is making $8 per hour at McDonald’s. She can’t get enough hours on the schedule to afford rent, so she’s staying “here and […]
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No Plans Friday? Michael Peterson is Talking to Dateline NBC
Dateline NBC is airing a two-hour special Friday night on Michael Peterson, the one-time Durham socialite turned convicted killer. Last month, Peterson entered an Alford plea to the charge of voluntary manslaughter for the death of his wife, Kathleen, in 2001. The plea allowed the novelist to accept a guilty verdict in what had been […]
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NCAA “Reluctantly” Signs Off on N.C.’s Quasi-HB 2 Repeal
The NCAA announced this morning that its board of governors has “reluctantly voted to allow consideration of championship bids in North Carolina” after the state passed a so-called repeal of HB 2 last week. Last summer, the NCAA pulled its 2016–17 championship games from North Carolina because of HB 2’s provisions regulating bathroom use and […]
