How Durham’s city council has avoided paying a jury award to a man who was falsely convicted of a double homicide in 1995.
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Thomasi McDonald
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NC Board of Elections Investigating Signatures on Durham Sheriff Candidate’s Petition to Get on Fall Ballot
Retired FBI agent Maria Jocys easily collected enough signatures from Durham voters to get her name on the midterm ballot to challenge Sheriff Clarence Birkhead as an unaffiliated candidate. But of the 15,865 she received, a third appear suspect.
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NC Lt. Gov. to Keynote NRA Prayer Breakfast in Houston This Weekend
Mark Robinson, during the 2020 election cycle, received $5,400 each from the NRA, Gun Owners of America, and HUCK PAC, the conservative political action committee founded by former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee.
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Durham Nonprofit Leader Fights Fascism Through Education
Ronda Taylor Bullock is the cofounder of the Durham-based nonprofit Working to Extend Anti-Racist Education.
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The GOP’s Durham School Board Candidates All Lost. But Several Did Well
Some of the conservative candidates did surprisingly well in solid-blue Durham, where Democratic Party voters outnumber Republicans five to one.
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Thompson Upsets Smith for Durham Clerk of Court Seat, DPS Board Will Welcome Two New Members
Durham DA Deberry and Sheriff Birkhead hang on to their seats, while Judge Pat Evans loses hers.
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Acclaimed Local Food Writer Bridgette Lacy Needs Your Help
The award-winning Triangle-based journalist suffered a series of strokes recently and is raising money to help pay her medical bills.
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Challenger Emerges in Durham Sheriff’s Race
Maria Jocys has signatures from enough Durham voters to challenge Sheriff Clarence Birkhead for his seat in the fall.
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DPS Bus Driver Veers Off Road in North Durham to Avoid Gunfire
The bus was not damaged by the gunfire and was not a target of the shooting. No injuries are reported.
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DPS Board Votes to Name Elementary School After Two Pioneering Black Women Leaders
The new elementary school, opening next year, will be named for civil rights champion Dr. Pauli Murray and Betty Massenburg, Durham’s first Black woman school principal.
