Durham County News

THOUSANDS of families across the North East face being forced into debt as a result of welfare changes, it was claimed last night.

Planning permission for the phase two of Dalton Park in Murton, was granted to owners ING Real Estates almost a year ago.

Left to right, Amy Henderson, Elen Kirton, Karen Milner, education development advisor at Durham County Council, Olivia Wake, Cassia Todd and Naomi Clarkson A GROUP of students got the chance to learn about pursuing a career in child minding from a leading education development advisor.

The Environment Agency and Durham County Council have teamed up to support this year's annual Litter Free Durham Big Spring Clean.

Debra Crumpler has been working for the Durham County's Sheriff's Office for the past 25 years.

The North Carolina State Bar has filed a complaint against former Durham District Attorney Tracy Cline that could lead to her disbarment.

PLANS to create more than 500 jobs in a County Durham unemployment blackspot could be scuppered by a legal challenge.

Hoping to get your hands on a copy of the racy best-seller “Fifty Shades of Grey?” You won’t find it at all the libraries in the Triangle.

The Duke University Medical Center and the University of Michigan's National Center for Geospatial Medicine are partners in "From Clinic to Community: Achieving Health Equity in the Southern United States," an effort to bring more community-based care to counties where Type 2 diabetes is particularly prevalent.

By Ray Gronberg gronberg@heraldsun.com; 419-6648 DURHAM - A single-night count of Durham County's homeless population in late January found 46 more people than last year were living in emergency shelters, transitional shelters or the streets.

Frank Ferrell leads panel discussion with six fellow Durham bakers ; Richard Holcomb and Jamie DeMent purchase web-based local and organic food delivery service; Nasher series screens films with food focus When Durham's Ninth Street Bakery opened in 1981, it was the only place in town to find fresh, locally baked goods.

Storms passing through Central North Carolina overnight may be to blame for several power outages.

Cumbrian Seafoods, Admiralty Way, Foxcover Enterprise park, Seaham. The company was taken over by rivals Young's in December 2011 Young's Seafood has confirmed it is shutting the former Cumbrian Seafoods plant on Seaham's Foxcover Industrial Estate, which it took over last December, with the loss of more than 280 jobs.

Wake County Manager David Cooke Monday proposed that commissioners grant county schools less than half the additional funds requested by the school board for the next school year.

Quinn Mullins, 12, left, is holding Rex beside his brother Charlie Mullins, 8. Rex is a diabetes-detection dog that alerts the Mullins family when Quinn and Charlie have changes in their blood-sugar level.

Just four months after it was launched, Durham County Council's apprenticeship programme has already supported more than 75 young people into work and training opportunities.

May 21--DURHAM -- An annual poll has found that 59.6 percent of the Orange County residents it surveyed would vote for a half-percent sales-tax surcharge to pay for new or expanded public transit.

These days, "comics" are serious business. A medium that started a century or so ago as single-frame amusements in newspapers' back pages has matured into a form with million-dollar collectibles, "graphic novels" about AIDS, alienation and war, and even academic appreciation.

Sir John Hall with Durham County Councillor Rob Yorke, Chairman of NEEC and the South Durham Enterprise Agency, Durham County Council leader Simon Henig and Masao Kumori.

Sarah Nordgren, co-founder of The Makery NC online business keeps tabs with online customers Thursday, May 10, 2012 during her stint in The Makery NC's micro office, about a thirty square foot space in the front window of the Beyu Caffe, 335 W. Main St., Durham.