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Former UNC Defensive End Junior Gnonkonde Arrested on DWI Charge

Posted by Blake Hodge | Mar 23, 2016 | Crime

Bouhu “Junior” Gnonkonde was arrested for driving while impaired early Wednesday morning, according to Chapel Hill Police. Gnonkonde has played defensive end for UNC since 2013. The arrest report says the 22-year-old Gnonkonde...

Spellings Outlines Takeaways from UNC Visit

Posted by Blake Hodge | Mar 23, 2016 | Featured, UNC

Margaret Spellings made several stops during her visit to the UNC – Chapel Hill campus on Tuesday. She had lunch with students and faculty in Gerrard Hall while protesters shouted “Go Home Marge” and “Come Outside” from a staged...

UNC Beats Western Carolina 10-2

Posted by Blake Hodge | Mar 22, 2016 | UNC Sports

The North Carolina baseball team got another dominating victory against an in-state opponent on Tuesday night with a 10-2 victory over Western Carolina. The No. 4 Tar Heels blitzed the Catamounts to the tune of a 10-0 lead...

Performance Auto Mall Moving from Chapel Hill

Posted by Blake Hodge | Mar 22, 2016 | Business, Featured

Performance Auto Mall is moving from its Chapel Hill location off of Fordham Boulevard. Chapel Hill Mayor Pam Hemminger announced that the dealership would be “moving to a location outside of Chapel Hill in 2017” in a letter to...

UNC Protesters Greet Margaret Spellings on Campus Visit

Posted by Blake Hodge | Mar 22, 2016 | Featured, UNC

Margaret Spellings in visiting the UNC campus on Tuesday. Not surprisingly, student protesters were well aware of the visit and were there to greet Spellings as she entered Gerrard Hall to have lunch with select members of the...

Can Duke Energy Meet Coal Ash Cleanup Deadlines?

Posted by Blake Hodge | Mar 22, 2016 | Featured, Safety

Duke Energy has until 2019 to shut down four high-risk sites across North Carolina and 2029 to close all of the ash basins, according to the Coal Ash Management Act passed in 2014 by the state legislature. Duke itself admits...

UNC Football Pro Day on Tuesday

Posted by Blake Hodge | Mar 22, 2016 | UNC Sports

More than a dozen former UNC football players will participate in the annual Pro Day on Tuesday, which allows for the former Tar Heels to show the professional scouts what they can do. Several members from the 2015 Tar Heels...

UNC’s Tyler Ramirez Shares ACC Player of the Week Honors

Posted by Blake Hodge | Mar 21, 2016 | UNC Sports

UNC outfielder Tyler Ramirez has been named Atlantic Coast Conference Baseball Co-Player of the Week, the league announced on Monday. Ramirez shares the honor with Clemson’s Seth Beer. Ramirez hit two homers and drove in 12 runs...

UNC Baseball Moves Up to No. 4

Posted by Blake Hodge | Mar 21, 2016 | UNC Sports

The North Carolina Tar Heel baseball team moved up to No. 4 in the latest D1Baseball rankings released Monday. The Tar Heels moved up from the sixth-ranked team in the country after going 5-0 last week with mid-week victories...

UNC Men’s Tennis Wins Pair of ACC Matches

Posted by Blake Hodge | Mar 21, 2016 | UNC Sports

The UNC men’s tennis team won the first two matches of its Atlantic Coast Conference season over the weekend. Everything started with the No. 2 Tar Heels sweeping Louisville 7-0 in the home opener on Friday in a dominating...

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