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As Domestic Violence Awareness Month kicks off this October, domestic violence shelters across North Carolina are being stretched to their limits as federal funds disappear.

As the historically large Baby Boomer generation ages, their children are grappling with death care in increasing numbers at a moment when the funeral home industry faces disruption on several fronts.

Dunrovin Exotic Animal Sanctuary is a nonprofit organization that permanently rehomes exotic animals whose owners have given them up. Over the past seven years, the sanctuary has brought in more than 200 animals.

It’s been more than four decades since the first cases of AIDS were reported in New York City and Los Angeles. But the nation’s HIV epidemic is far from over — especially in the South.

Multiple states across the U.S. have worked toward tightening their policies on phone use in schools in recent years, but students and faculty in North Carolina have mixed reactions.

Dedicated in 1929, Bingham Hall is one of several campus buildings that were constructed and named for people who, at the time, were considered heroes but have since been exposed as horrors.

The student-athletes on UNC-Chapel Hill’s baseball team have received negative messages from fans expecting certain performances before. But now that sports betting is legal in North Carolina, as of March 11, the messages and pressure from sports bettors may increase. 

Restaurant owners in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, are feeling the strain as they grapple with higher prices on food and supplies in the wake of a high-inflation period. Despite efforts by the Federal Reserve Bank, inflation has been slow to drop to pre-pandemic levels.