Most of its windows are covered with plywood, its parking lots empty. At Lincoln Apartments, most of the 200 low-income families who lived here have left since October, when the foundation that owned the property told residents the upkeep was too expensive. They had to go. About a dozen tenants remain, say officials from the […]
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A gun-toting guard in every Wake County school?
[This article has been amended; see “Corrections” at end.] If Wake County were to put an armed guard in every school, as a top NRA official has suggested should be done nationwide, it would require more than 100 new law enforcement officers and cost the school district millions of dollars. Meanwhile, one Wake County school […]
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Court upholds ban of Internet sweepstakes cafés
At the RCB Internet and Sweepstakes Café in Durham, it’s an hour before closing. Behind the counter, an attendant says that even on this drizzly weekday night, business has been steady. While she continues her closing duties, the stragglers sit in front of computer screens, pointing, clicking and betting on casino-style Internet games of chance. […]
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Governor Perdue Announces Plan To Keep Group Homes Temporarily Open
The fix is only temporary, but a just announced plan from Governor Bev Perdue could keep group homes for the low income disabled open through the end of January. A one time injection of $1 million in idle rental-assistance funds will help pay the expenses for nearly 1,400 developmentally and mentally disabled group home residents. […]
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Thomas Stith Has a New Job
Thomas Stith, Chief of Staff for Pat McCrory? Thomas Stith, Chief of Staff for Pat McCrory. After heading up the McCrory’s transition team, Stith, a former Durham City Councilman and one-time candidate for Lieutenant Governor, has been tasked with running the governor-elect’s administration. McCrory made the announcement in a Thursday press conference introducing Stith, along […]
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Meth lab busts on the rise
The number of methamphetamine labs found in North Carolina reached a record high this year. That’s just one of the takeaways from yesterday’s meeting of the General Assembly’s committee on methamphetamine abuse. State legislators on Wednesday gathered to hear a final report from investigators of just how bad the problem of meth abuse has become. […]
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Meth lab busts on the rise
The number of methamphetamine labs found in North Carolina reached a record high this year. That’s just one of the takeaways from yesterday’s meeting of the General Assembly’s committee on methamphetamine abuse. State legislators on Wednesday gathered to hear a final report from investigators of just how bad the problem of meth abuse has become. […]
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State ruling renders Durham granny flats ordinance moot
In Trinity Heights, a tree-lined span of homes bordering Duke University’s East Campus, the change in seasons has left the granny flats covered in fallen leaves. Locals say that many of the flats were built in the last decade, after the City of Durham revamped local ordinances governing their construction. Yet many neighbors were unaware […]
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Troublesome convenience stores under scrutiny in Durham
The warrants for the arrests of Benard Theora and Alvin Boyd Turner readliterallylike a grocery list. Over three months this year, Turner, who owns the Community Grocery in East Durham, and Theora, a clerk at the Holloway Street Food Mart, allegedly purchased more than $8,000 of goods from undercover police, who had told the suspects […]
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How an embattled state Senate candidate, busted for drugs, ran for election
A campaign sign in front of Clarence Bender’s wife’s home. Shackled and clad in an orange jumpsuit, Democratic state Senate candidate Clarence Bender was being led out of court by a bailiff when he calmly took questions from reporters in a hallway of the Nash County Courthouse. “Will your campaign continue?” someone asked. “Everything is […]