Chapel Hill News

Last week at the History Center, a roomful of food critics witnessed a live demonstration of a Union soldier's cast-iron crank-operated beaten-biscuit machine, as author John Egerton supervised.

Alcohol may have been a factor in a fatal motorcycle crash Wednesday in Marshall County on State Highway 99 at the Hearthstone Drive intersection.

William Gay was born a writer. As a late-life literary success who didn't attend creative-writing programs or pay for professional workshops, Gay symbolized the hopes of struggling writers, especially rural ones.