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Town officials have proposed requiring developers to set aside 15 percent of new projects for affordable housing, but a representative for area home builders said the idea could be illegal.

Submitted by Nadine Maeser on 31 December 2009 - 6:58pm. READ MORE: News Human remains found along river road yesterday have been sent to Chapel Hill, N.C. Experts there will try to identify the person and determine how they died.

The suspect was arrested shortly after the assault. Thirty-three year old Zepplin Lee Hopper of Cameron, North Carolina, is currently being held in the Orange County Jail on a $101,000 dollar bond.

A smoldering cigarette butt in a trash can sparked a fraternity fire that killed five students at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1996, and smoking materials may have caused a 2007 Brunswick County beach house fire that killed seven South Carolina college students.

As members of the state Highway Patrol and DOT continue their investigation into a fatal train-car collision Tuesday, the victim's husband is talking publicly for the first time about losing his wife and child.

A hearing is tentatively scheduled in the case of two men accused of kidnapping and killing the student body president of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

The suspect is described as 5 foot, 8 inches, wearing gloves and dark clothing. The victim told police her assailant fled on food towards University Mall with an undisclosed amount of money.

A single red bulb is on account of a house fire that occurred on Tinkerbell Road due to careless disposal of cigarettes.

Twenty-five-year-old Jermaine Kashif Evans was arrested on felony charges of possession of stolen materials.

In the basement of the Chapel Hill Public Library, a group of performers is rehearsing for its debut performance Sunday in Durham.

A car has crashed into the back side of a Holiday Inn in Chapel Hill. Orange County dispatchers tell ABC 11 Eyewitness News the vehicle crashed into a room, smashing the windows.

Monday, WCHL reported that 23-year old Marcellous Levon Prince, determined to be armed and dangerous, was captured by officers from the Orange County Sheriff's Office.

In the summer of 1987, 19-year-old Mac McCaughan and his bandmates stumbled on an idea as old as rock 'n' roll itself.

An anonymous call Tuesday morning to 911 led New Hanover County sheriff's deputies to a home at 612 Cherry Laurel Court where they found an 88-year-old woman dead, possibly since spring.

Leaders in North Carolina's largest city will consider extending medical and leave benefits to the same-sex partners of its employees.

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Demario Atwater, one of two men accused of killing UNC-Chapel Hill's student body president, Eve Carson, in March 2008, has asked that his capital trial be moved out of North Carolina.

This new tactic is a department from years past, when the town would only post the sculptures on town property.

SAXAPAHAW, N.C. Along a dark country road in Alamance County, the red and gold stripes of a Shell sign glow in the distance, beckoning drivers.

Tha Wah doesn't want to forget the roots of her own culture since she moved to the United States five years ago, which was why the Karen New Year celebration at Temple Baptist Church on Saturday had special meaning for her.