Durham News

A man barricaded himself and two others inside an apartment in Durham for nearly six hours early Wednesday morning at the Country Scenes apartment complex off of East Cornwallis Road.

Officers responded to a domestic disturbance at an apartment building at 3505 Century Oaks Drive around 12:28 a.m. Wednesday.

Democratic nominee for the 13th Congressional District Charles Malone has made it official: He's back in the race.

An editorial Tuesday said a preliminary state House budget would provide $9 million "more" for public television.

The Birmingham City Council has passed an ordinance to fund a $1.5 million project to demolish abandoned homes in the area.

NEW OLD SOUNDS "We're playing stuff people haven't heard in a long time," says Rhiannon Giddens .

Just 100 days away from the moment when President Barack Obama accepts his party's nomination in Charlotte, congresswoman and Democratic National Committee chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz marked the occasion on a top floor at Bank of America Stadium against a backdrop of the city skyline.

Targeting LEED certification, the building will be adjacent to the Durham Bulls Athletic Park and the 2,800-seat Durham Performing Arts Center.

Durham, North Carolina-based six-piece Delta Rae are set to release their debut album, Carry the Fire , on Sire Records.

Is any amount of tanning safe? How much protection are you really getting from your sunscreen? And are indoor tanning beds a better alternative? Here's a look at some of the most common myths about tanning and sun protection according to a new survey by the American Academy of Dermatology.

About twenty minutes after midnight Tuesday, Durham police were called to respond to a shooting that occurred at the intersection of Fargo and Enterprise Streets.

The consumer financial watchdog is taking aim at reloadable prepaid cards, moving to regulate a product that has become a popular alternative to checking accounts for lower-income Americans and a new source of fees for some banks.

They were first Mary Mitchell Harris, Gene Kendall, Wilhelmina Reuben-Cooke, Cassandra Smith Rush, Nat White Jr.

Headline News and World Report announced a few days ago the ' 10 Best Cities to be a Pet .' Arizona took the cake with a 40% showing.

Manesh Patel, an interventional cardiologist at Duke Heart Center, speaks with resident doctors at Duke University Hospital in Durham, N.C., on May 23.

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

For the last year and half Matt Brown could be found in the infant room at Durham Community Preschool.

Local law enforcement officers who found a missing autistic boy, figured out what happened to a woman slain when she tried to leave a cult and shut down an international child pornography ring have been honored by a national organization.

8 a.m. – Morning Colors memorial service at Chapel Hill Memorial Cemetery hosted by the local Veterans of Foreign Wars C.V. Cummings Chapel Hill Post 9100 with Chapel Hill Boy Scout Troop 835 providing a bugler for taps 10 a.m. – Open House at American Legion Post 6, 1714 Legion Road 11 a.m. – Memorial service featuring guest ... (more)

A Durham man was found in his car early Sunday with a bullet wound in his neck, but was expected to survive, police said.