Speaker explores how social networking is changing the world
New media expert, Rahaf Harfoush, a strategist with President Obama’s presidential campaign, recently spoke about her experience with social media during the presidential campaign and how it is changing the way people and organizations communicate and do business with one another.
A middle-school teacher in Wake County, N.C., may be fired after she and her friends made caustic remarks on a Facebook page about her students, the South and Christianity.
LIKE FATHER, Like Daughter -- only more so. Tyler Strandberg of Rocky Mount has a hard time getting her mind off her BlackBerry when she drives. She has crashed three cars in the past three years.
Gospel great Shirley Caesar brought her world-class voice and a message about divine destiny to a hand-clapping audience Sunday night at the 75th annual meeting of the Durham Committee on the Affairs of Black People.
James E. Cheek, a Shaw University alumnus and youngest president in the school's history, died Friday. He was 77.
Economic downturn sends shoppers in search of bargains
At a time when many companies are trying to decide whether they can afford to stay in business, Durham’s thrift stores are thriving. “We’ve seen an increase in people coming to shop,” said Rich Carr, manager of the Durham Rescue Mission, which includes a thrift store.
Meet Kenneth Lewis. He is a 47-year-old African American Harvard Law graduate — and he’s campaigning to become North Carolina’s next US Senator.
Nearly a million and a half angry Facebook users are protesting recent changes to the Web site. The leader of the furious online mob? A smiling eighth-grader from Apex, N.C., who wears his baseball cap backwards and likes to play FarmVille.
His parents were not aware of this.
Oct. 27--DURHAM -- About two-thirds of Durham residents asked say they feel safe or very safe, according to a poll commissioned by the Durham Convention & Visitors Bureau in cooperation with the Durham Police Department.
The proportion of North Carolinians living in poverty has increased this decade as the state's median household income has declined, according to new statistics released by the U.S. Census Bureau on Tuesday.
Some floorboards inside the two-story home at 402 Clay Street are buckled, showing signs of age and neglect. Upstairs, a window in one of the rooms has been removed, exposing the sturdy lathe wall construction -- this was decades before drywall -- of this 1900 house.
UNC system officials have been talking budgets and job cuts for quite some time now. But on Thursday, during a meeting of the Board of Governors, many of them got a first look at exactly where the more than 900 jobs being trimmed from the system's 17 campuses have come from over the past year.
Although Kinston, Lenoir County and this portion of eastern North Carolina is home to legends in the blues and jazz fields, many locals are not aware of it.
An announcement at the Kinston Community Council of the Arts on Thursday morning may change all that.
Major crime in Durham was down about 4 percent in the first half of 2009, compared to the same stretch the year before, Police Chief Jose Lopez told elected officials this week.
Residents with paintball guns are taking aim at speeders in one Durham neighborhood. Police say it's illegal, but Zella Alston doesn't mind. Speeders often fly past her West Markham Avenue home, including one driving an 18-wheeler that knocked down a telephone pole, she said.
North Carolinians have seen their health insurance costs rise five times faster than their salaries over the last decade, according a new report released this morning that will likely add more fuel to the health-care debate.
The report found that health care premiums in the state rose 96.8 percent from 2000 through 2009, while median individual earnings rose by 18.4 percent, according to the study by Families USA and by Action for Children North Carolina.
