The Durham Police Department has released the names of a man shot by police Wednesday in northeast Durham, as well as the three officers involved. The DPD confirmed this morning that the man shot was twenty-four-year-old Kenneth Lee Bailey Jr. Officer T.M. Greathouse, Officer A.G. D’Meza and Corporel J.E. Lloyd, all members of the department’s […]
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Durham Police Fatally Shoot Black Man in Durham Housing Authority Neighborhood near Club Boulevard
Durham police shot and killed a man Tuesday afternoon on Glenbrook Drive. Few details have been released about the shooting, which drew a crowd of neighbors and others who heard about the shooting on social media. The shooting occurred at about two thirty p.m. in the Durham Housing Authority’s Club Boulevard neighborhood. Although police have […]
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Can Progressives Turn the Moral March’s Energy into Political Action?
I n a recent poll conducted by The Washington Post, 25 percent of adults said they plan to get more involved in politics. Among Democrats, the rate was even higher, at 35 percent. That resolve was on display in Raleigh Saturday, as the eleventh annual Moral March drew what organizers claimed to be more than […]
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The Trump Administration Takes Aim at Transgender Kids
On Friday, the second day of Attorney General Jeff Sessions’s tenure, the Department of Justice sent an unmistakable signal that it was no longer interested in protecting transgender students from discrimination. In a brief, the DOJ announced that it wouldn’t fight a federal judge’s injunction halting an Obama administration order that included transgender students in […]
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Go to Court, Stay Out of Jail
Durham County is testing whether reminding people about their upcoming court dates will reduce overcrowding at the county jail. The new notification system will be funded by a $50,000 Safety and Justice Challenge Network Innovation Fund Grant from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. It will be the only system of its kind […]
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Duke Joins Sixteen Universities in Opposing Trump’s Travel Ban
On Monday, Duke University filed a legal brief in opposition to President Trump’s contested refugee ban and travel restrictions. The school joined sixteen other universities in filing the amicus brief, which allows non-litigants to state their views on an appellate court case. A U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals panel last week denied a request from […]
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NAACP Estimates More Than 80K Turned Out to Protest Trump at the Moral March on Raleigh
Becky Goldman was born to march. “My parents are animal rights activists and they had a protest sign in my hand since I was in a stroller,” she said. On Saturday, the sign in Goldman’s hand displayed a brief message: “OMG GOP WTF.” It was adorned with the kind of plastic gemstones one buys to […]
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Human Error Caused OWASA Fluoride Overdose, OWASA Very Sorry About That
An “unintentional [water treatment plant] operator key stroke”—literally, someone hit the wrong button—caused the overfeed of fluoride that forced OWASA to shut down its water plant last week, according to independent reports released Friday. The extra fluoride dosage, plus a major water main break the next day, prompted a water shortage in Orange County that […]
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Durham City Council Moves Forward With Mixed-Income Project Near Durham Station, But Questions Remain
A mixed-use, mixed-income housing project next to the Durham Station Transportation Center is moving forward—though it’s unclear how exactly the developers will be able to meet all of the city’s goals and still make the development viable. On Thursday, the Durham City Council voted to move ahead with DHIC Inc. and Self-Help Ventures’ proposal, the […]
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Durham City Council Rejects Mayor Bell’s HB 2 Compromise
An attempt by Durham Mayor William Bell to compromise with legislators in an effort to get HB 2 repealed died during a city council work session today. The suggestion came after the council heard comments from members of the advocacy group Open for All NC calling on the city to take action. Bell suggested that […]
