Durham News

Durham City Manager Tom Bonfield took a moment during a council meeting last week to recognize a milestone: the 30th anniversary of Councilman Howard Clement's tenure on the City Council.

The solemn remembrances of the United States military's dead begin at dawn Saturday in Chapel Hill, when veterans and Boy Scouts will place U.S. flags at the graves of more than 400 men and women buried in the Chapel Hill Memorial Cemetery on Legion Road.

Back pain, migraine and other types of chronic pain without a known physical cause - and therefore little prospect for relief - were associated with an increased risk of suicide in a new study of U.S. veterans.

President Obama is set to sign a bill Friday that honors the victims of Birmingham's 16th street Baptist church bombing which took place on September 15, 1963.

The robber, who prominently displayed a black, semiautomatic pistol, fired no shots, and no one was hurt in the incident.

When he was a young boy, Putnam, owner of Motley Clue Adventures, and his three cousins were running amok while visiting their grandmother in Pickens, Miss.

The Rev. Philip Cousin Jr., a longtime religious and political leader in Durham, North Carolina was appointed new pastor of Bethel A.M.E. Church in San Francisco.

City Council members have scheduled a vote June 3 on whether they'll go along with a renewed request from the would-be developers of 751 South for city annexation, water and sewer.

Derek Abaroa visited his brother and sister-in-law at their home on Ferrand Drive in fall 2004.

Submitted/Courtesy of the Durham Art Guild Peter Aitken's "Mountain in the Clouds, New Zealand," is on view at the Durham Art Guild.

Triangle Opera Studios, which gives local opera singers with potential for careers as professionals a chance to perform, is moving to Durham.

Splatspace is a nonprofit organization that calls itself "Durham's hackerspace," but the term "hacker" in this context does not mean breaking into protected databases.

Maimuna Abdi Yussuf , a Somali student at African Leadership Academy in Johannesburg, is one of eight high school seniors around the world who are blogging about their college searches.

May 22--DURHAM -- Budget writers in the N.C. Senate are tinkering with Gov. Pat McCrory's proposed shakeup of state transportation spending to make it even harder for local governments to obtain state aid for transit projects.

The 33 people who earned their special diplomas on Tuesday became the largest graduating class ever for the mission program.

About 100 injured military veterans and those on active duty are competing against each other this week in the Valor Games Southeast.

A man and woman were killed in an apparent murder-suicide outside an office complex on a service road along Durham-Chapel Hill Boulevard on Wednesday.

A Durham police officer arrested two men on armed robbery, kidnapping and assault charges early Wednesday after a male who had been kidnapped escaped and flagged the officer down for help.

This week at Saint Barbara Greek Orthodox Church, the first of hundreds of cookies were being prepared in anticipation of the church's annual Greek Festival.

In a new study, people with high blood pressure who could communicate with their pharmacists online had better blood pressure control a year after that service ended.