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A friend of a woman shot to death as she waited to pick up her kids at their Chapel Hill elementary school asked a friend to pray for her as her relationship with the man charged with killing her fell apart.

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The North Carolina Symphony was born in Chapel Hill, and although it is now based in Raleigh and has traveled to every nook and cranny in the state, every year the symphony comes back to do a concert in its hometown.

Orange County Commissioners will hold a public hearing on a plan to rezone land in the Eno Economic Development District when the board meetsTuesday.

Over the past few weeks, several readers wrote in to say they took our experts' advice in doing a bit of spring cleaning on their desktops and laptops.

On Tuesday June 5, those with equipment for safely looking at the sun will see a small black dot slowly inching across its face.

Around 1:00 p.m. on Sunday May 27, 2012 the body of a white female was spotted floating in the Cape Fear River at Campbellton Landing, near downtown Fayetteville, NC.

Chapel Hill police officers collect evidence Friday in the driveway in front of Mary Scroggs Elementary School in Southern Village, where a woman was shot to death just steps from the from door of the school.

Gordon Miller Goodwin is currently being held in the Wake County jail pending transfer to Orange County after being arrested Friday for robbery with a dangerous weapon in Orange County.

The heat of late spring is sweltering outside, but the brick facade of Swan Ponds Mansion keeps the house cool and sheltered.

Obama told thousands of students at the university that he wants Congress to keep the costs of a college education in check.

Mrs. Camilla Wade Pender, 66, died Friday evening May 25, 2012, at the UNC Hospital in Chapel Hill.

Hloo Lay reads a new book to brother and sister, Hlee Poe, 2, and Pwe Poe, 3, outside their Kingswood apartment in Chapel Hill Wednesday.

Chapel Hill cookbook author Sheri Castle is teaching an early summer brunch cooking class at Southern Season at 1 p.m. June 16.

The Background The Orange County commissioners rejected building a transfer station in 2009 after residents near proposed sites on Millhouse Road and in Bingham Township vigorously opposed them.

The Chapel Hill Garden Club held a celebration planned by Anne Montgomery on May 1 at the N.C. Botanical Garden to distribute proceeds from the ninth biennial Chapel Hill Spring Garden Tour and  to thank  those who made the tour possible.

A group of RHS graduates stand together. They first began school together at South End Elementary School and have been friends ever since.

IN: A Scroggs Elementary School parent is helping her two children cope with the aftermath of Friday's shooting incident - and, at the same time, she's also commending the school's administration for the way they handled the incident.

This photo combo shows President Barack Obama in Chapel Hill, N.C. on April 24, 2012, and Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov.

Some Wake County school board members are hung up on the idea of the board speaking with "one voice or none at all" when it comes to supporting the new student assignment plan.