Durham News

Silver may help in the fight against drug-resistant bacteria such as Stenotrophomonas maltophilia by easing large antibiotic molecules through the microbes' outer coating.

Mothers who practice what they preach when it comes to being active and making healthy food choices are more likely to have children who exercise and eat well, according to research published online Tuesday by the International Journal of Obesity .

Instead, blank sheets of butcher paper obscure its storefront windows, top to bottom.

Times change: Georgia Tech radio man Wes Durham is leaving his job to pursue a TV position .

Will Raynor signs with N.C. State University with his parents Teresa and Max Raynor, South Johnston athletic director and baseball coach Keith Durham and principal Eddie Price.

Yet only in the last 10 years has the study of animal personality started to gain ground with behavioral ecologists, said Jennifer Verdolin of the National Evolutionary Synthesis Center, in Durham, NC.

Police said a man was shot to death in the street Tuesday in an East Durham neighborhood.

Kammie Michael, a spokeswoman for the Durham Police Department, said officers responding to a 911 call around 11:40 a.m. found Jermaine Andrea McDonald, 37, dead in the street in front of a house in the 100 block of North Hyde Park Avenue.

With multiple locations all over the United States, Dishcrawl offers events that are meant to bring food enthusiasts of all types together.

Rep. Michael Speciale, a New Bern Republican, doesn't lift an eye as protesters, police and journalists, and legal observers file past on the second floor of the North Carolina State Legislative Building Monday, June 17, 2013, prior to an act of civil disobedience opposing the Republican legislature's agenda.

June 17, 2013 - Oahu, HI - Jack Johnson announces fall headline tour dates in support of his sixth studio album, From Here To Now To You, to be released on September 17 through Johnson's own Brushfire Records.

Eating larger amounts of red meat can heighten the chances of developing diabetes, researchers in Singapore have found.

A human skeleton was found Sunday in a wooded area in western Durham, and police are trying to identify the person.

Durham taxpayers' little-used parking lot at 1111 W. Chapel Hill St. continues to rise in value, thanks to the competition of two prospective buyers.

Prostate cancer occurs in African-American men 60 percent more often than Caucasian men, and when they are diagnosed, it's more likely to be in advance stages.

A new study published June 17 in JAMA Internal Medicine showed that eating red meat over time was associated with a higher chance of developing the most common form of diabetes.

If this is NWA, then the "A" stands for acceleration ... because Ice Cube 's tour bus got pulled over for speeding this afternoon in Durham, North Carolina.

In fact, over time it has grown into a cultural phenomenon. The advent of "next generation 911" has brought the essential service into the digital and mobile age.

It was 10:30 on a Tuesday morning earlier this month when the group of 5-year-old children trekked through the doors at Pearsontown Elementary School in Durham.

Durham resident Harold Wright, Jr. , 64, in his north Durham home Tuesday, June 11, 2013, has weathered several hardships for the past 13 months since his wife Naomi Wright was shot and killed in the shootings at JJ Tire in NE Durham.