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Sylvia Earle, National Geographic Society explorer in residence and a noted scientist, oceanographer, environmental advocate and author, will address the graduating class at Wilson College's 143rd commencement ceremony at 1:30 p.m. today.

It's important to invest as much as possible in your dreams, Middle College High School senior Eeyi Oon told her classmates on Friday afternoon.

Vanessa Woods is a research scientist and Brian Hare is an associate professor of evolutionary anthropology at Duke University.

Will Phillips Jerry Lee, an 11 year old APS rescue dog, kisses Gina Longo, his owner, during the kissing competition at the Walk for the Animals annual fundraiser on Duke's East Campus on Saturday, May 18, 2013.

One day, when Kerry Burke-McCloud was in seventh grade at Fletcher Middle School, he was called to the office.

"Supreme Court asked to intervene in lacrosse case": Today's edition of The Herald-Sun of Durham, North Carolina contains an article that begins, "A trio of former Duke University lacrosse players has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to reverse a lower-court ruling and reinstate their federal civil-rights case against the city and its police." Posted ... (more)

NEWARK - Mayor Cory Booker made $1.3 million on the speaking circuit between 2008 and 2013 and gave roughly $620,000 of it to charity, according to documents and disclosures he released yesterday.

No matter how often Republicans denounce them, the initial talking points used by the White House to describe the attack in Benghazi, Libya are not the real point.

North Carolina's unemployment rate fell to 8.9 percent in April - the lowest in the state in four years.

UCF first medical school students graduation UCF president John Hitt addresses the University of Central Florida's first medical school students graduation ceremony on Friday, May 17, 2013.

Times-Mirror Photo/Beverly Denny Peter Arundel, 52, is now the sole member of his family with ownership in Times Community Media, which operates several community newspapers and websites in Northern Virginia and the Greater Piedmont.

Bachelor's degree in industrial and labor relations from Cornell University; J.D. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; master's degree in public policy from Duke University.

Yep, following one of those extensive investigations where scientists spend absolutely ages trying to find the answer to a question literally nobody asked, it has now been confirmed that men with lower voices make more money, run bigger companies and stay longer in their jobs than squeakier-spoken colleagues.

Fourty nine people were arrested in Raleigh on Monday for trespassing and failure to disperse at the General Assembly.

Five Foster Middle School students and a Judson Middle School student earned State Recognition from Duke University for their scores on the SAT college entrance exam.

A Duke University study of wells near shale gas drilling sites in Fayetteville, Ark.

Ten years later and I'm already "the old guy." As my Facebook newsfeed flooded this past weekend with photos from Duke University's 161st Commencement , I couldn't help but feel a mix of pride and envy for the Class of 2013.

Nouabale-Ndoki National Park is a tree-dotted enclave in Central Africa's Republic of Congo.

The North Carolina health agency leaders driving a plan to have private companies run a big chunk of the state's $13 billion a year Medicaid program are selling changes sought by Gov.

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