Local teacher Tom Greene had the idea for the Proud Apple Social Club after meeting a number of openly gay teachers on Duke’s campus at last year’s North Carolina Pride Parade.
Former President Jimmy Carter canceled his scheduled book signing at Durham’s Regulator Bookshop Tuesday after spending much of the day in the hospital with a stomach ache.
About 1,000 Durham families are expected to participate in a national health study that monitors children between their birth and 21st birthdays.
Some Duke students have been working to raise support for an act aimed to help undocumented students acquire American citizenship that was blocked by the U.S. Senate Tuesday.
The Pride Committee of North Carolina hosted the 26th annual Pride Parade and Festival at Duke’s East Campus Saturday to celebrate the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community.
The man who admitted to killing former UNC student body president Eve Carson was sentenced to life in prison Tuesday.
Many members of the Duke and Durham communities have found themselves stopped at the intersection on Swift Avenue and West Main Street, waiting for a churning freight train to clear the tracks.
As Durham County’s Hispanic population grows, it faces both new challenges and opportunities.
After a close battle with Oklahoma City-based Big Truck Tacos, OnlyBurger fell short of winning the Food Network’s food truck contest, the network announced Sunday night.
Although many Durham residents do not rely on bikes for transportation, the League of American Bicyclists recently named the city a bronze-level Bicycle Friendly Community.
A Vanity Fair magazine article written by Todd Purdum, a national editor and political correspondent for Vanity Fair, served as the inspiration for a roundtable discussion on public policy gridlock...
Those who have lost faith in the Durham Public Schools system now have a forum to learn and clear misunderstandings.
A crowd of over 325 law students rose yesterday, at the dean’s command, to welcome Samuel Alito, associate justice of the Supreme Court, to the School of Law.
An exhibit of scientific images and photographs of everyday items honored graduate student Abhijit Mahato’s unique combination of interests in the arts and engineering in a memorial contest Wednesday.
A group of about 30 students and faculty members gathered in the Duke Chapel Saturday morning in remembrance of the victims of the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.
More than 70 students packed into a room in the West Union Building last night for the fourth annual “Minorities on Wall Street” event.
OnlyBurger is cookin’. The Food Network will announce Sunday whether OnlyBurger, a popular mobile vendor often seen on campus and around Durham, has won a place on one of its shows.
Last year, students at Durham’s E.K. Powe Elementary School were asked to draw what an ideal library would look like. With a renovation of the facilities now complete, some of their ideas became a...
Col. Gregory Lusk, an Iraqi war veteran, will lead the North Carolina National Guard starting Oct. 1, Gov. Bev Perdue announced Thursday.
A panel of state officials met for the first time Wednesday afternoon to discuss the search process for a new director of the State Bureau of Investigation’s crime lab after a report released last...
