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High-growth industries, innovation and talent were the featured buzzwords at the State of Durham’s Economy Breakfast Tuesday morning.
Durham Mayor Bill Bell announced Monday his endorsement of Kenneth Lewis, Trinity ’83, a Durham attorney vying for the Democratic Party’s nomination for U.S. Senate.
Vice President Joe Biden paid a visit to Durham yesterday in an attempt to rally support for the government’s stimulus spending.
Although a previous administration tried and failed to implement a nationwide student-record database, President Barack Obama is trying again, albeit in a different manner.
Work permits prevent minors from working illegal jobs, but may fail to protect them from working more hours than they are supposed to, according to a recent study by a Duke researcher.
The state unemployment rate climbed to 11.1 percent in January, according to the Employment Security Commission of North Carolina.
Work permits prevent minors from working illegal jobs, but may fail to protect minors from working more hours than they are supposed to, according to a recent study by a Duke researcher.
The Tar Heel State is one of 15 states—plus the District of Columbia—vying for $4.35 billion in grants from President Barack Obama as part of his Race to the Top program, which will provide funds...
For the first time in the last few years, the Duke/CFO Magazine Global Business Outlook Survey projects good tidings for the United States economy in the coming months.
Police are still investigating a string of Durham bank robberies in recent weeks. The latest robbery, which occurred at SunTrust Bank on University Drive Feb. 25, marked the sixth such incident...
With the United States facing its largest deficit since the second World War, President Barack Obama has called on Erskine Bowles to head a national commission to tackle the country’s greatest...
More than a month after President Barack Obama allocated $585 million to North Carolina to build high speed rail networks, state transportation experts have responded with mixed opinions about the...
The city of Durham’s 2010-2011 fiscal year’s budget will likely shift gears from focusing on cutting costs to increasing revenue.
The Citizen Observer Patrol program is a volunteer group under the direction of the Durham Police Department that gives volunteers an opportunity to actively assist DPD in deterring crime in the...
Facing down a $15 million budget gap for the next fiscal year, Durham is moving forward with codifying its first-ever strategic plan.
Carmen Jo Ponce will not graduate from Duke Law until 2011, but that has not stopped her from trying to change a city’s laws.
Tom Deans is exploring a new method of course evaluation. In addition to handing out evaluations on the last day of classes, Deans sent out surveys to students who had taken a class he taught two...
A judge Monday reduced the bond of Crystal Gail Mangum, the Duke lacrosse accuser who was jailed last week after police said she attempted to murder her boyfriend.
One of Duke’s partners in its planned expansion into China may be linked to a series of cyberattacks on Google and other American corporations.
The city of Durham hopes to be a guinea pig for Google’s upcoming “Fiber for Communities” Internet experiment.
