Elon University News

It's that time of year again when high school seniors are gearing up to don caps and gowns for graduation and then head off to college or seek employment by the end of summer.

John Edwards leaves a federal courthouse after the jury deliberated for a third day in his trial on charges of campaign corruption in Greensboro, N.C., Tuesday, May 22, 2012.

Whether or not you realize it, "gamification" has been a part of your life since childhood.

In the three days before graduation May 24,A Stow Patch is featuring the top 10 academic students in the 2012 Stow-Munroe Falls High School senior class.

Elon, NC-- 25-year old Monique Johnson isn't even supposed to be alive. In fact, doctors predicted she wouldn't live past age six.

This month, hundreds of students are graduating from North Carolina’s seven law schools, into a bad job market and an uncertain future.

Young wasn't an easy witness, Lewis said, but defense attorney Abbe Lowell calmly questioned him.

Thousands of students, including Yorktown natives, across the state and county are gearing up for a new challenge: life after graduation.A Patch often gets word of how some local students are doing in their studies at college, including recent graduations.A A Below is a list of the 2012 college graduates from the Yorktown.A This list may not be ... (more)

I give a lot of grief to our online poll at www.thetimesnews.com . It's a mechanism that is about as scientific as seeking medical advice from a medieval barber and going home with a bucketful of leeches.

The students talk about college plans - acceptance letters from Wake Forest University, Elon University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

A little after 9 a.m., the soon-to-be graduates walked purposefully from the Koury Athletic Center to cross Haggard Avenue on the way to the ceremony's heavily shaded outdoor setting on old campus.

The project, which includes the field, fencing, press box and bathrooms, is part of Elon University's $250 million in construction plans , which include adding nearly 1,600 beds and expanding academic facilities for science and communications.

Raghu Tadepalli has been named dean of the Martha and Spencer Love School of Business at Elon University following a national search.

John Edwards' team wrapped up their defense Wednesday without calling the ex-presidential candidate, his mistress or daughter to testify, a move experts say was intended to shift focus from a political sex scandal to the nitty-gritty of campaign finance law.

Whatever the job market for college graduates looks like now, it's still better than it was five years ago when the economy took a nosedive.

That decision, after a little more than two days of evidence, signals the defense team's confidence that federal prosecutors have not proved Edwards broke campaign-finance laws as part of the elaborate scheme to cover up the extramarital affair, former federal prosecutors and election-law experts said.

A Burlington man pleaded guilty Tuesday to a string of break-ins near Elon University last summer, where he stole items to sell for crack cocaine and made himself comfortable enough in one of the apartments to cook himself dinner.

Paul, Kentucky's junior senator, "joked about President Obama's changed postion [sic] on gay marriage in a speech in Iowa Friday: 'Call me cynical, but I wasn't sure his views on marriage could get any gayer,' " BuzzFeed.com reports.

North Carolina is as good a place as any and possibly better than most to explore the often contradictory sentiments at the heart of the same-sex marriage debate.

Three women face prostitution and drug charges after a search warrant was served on a house on Cobb Street Thursday.