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UNC and Bojangles: An Unlikely Success

Posted by Staff | Dec 21, 2015 | Featured, Sports, UNC Sports

A 38 point victory is rarely remembered in college basketball nearly a decade after it happened – but UNC’s 102-64 win against Pennsylvania in 2007 is an exception. With less than a minute left and Tar Heels already up by...

NC Supreme Court Upholds Federal and State District Maps

Posted by Blake Hodge | Dec 21, 2015 | Featured, State

North Carolina’s highest court issued a ruling regarding much-debated district maps for the General Assembly and congressional districts. The North Carolina Supreme Court upheld maps drawn by Republicans in 2011 that lay out...

Nobel Prize Winner Donates Prize Money to Chapel Hill Foundation

Posted by Blake Hodge | Dec 18, 2015 | Featured, UNC

Aziz Sancar, the UNC professor who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry this year, is under contract with the Nobel Foundation to donate the entire share of his award money to the Aziz & Gwen Sancar Foundation of Chapel Hill,...

New Chapel Hill Mayor Hemminger Looks Ahead To 2016

Posted by Aaron Keck | Dec 18, 2015 | Featured, Local Government

On Chapel Hill’s 2016 agenda: development, transparency, and an initiative to help feed kids in need.

New Website Details Racial Disparities Among Police Searches

Posted by Blake Hodge | Dec 17, 2015 | Featured, Safety

A new website launched on Thursday that details the demographic stop and search patterns of North Carolina law enforcement agencies. Ian Mance is a staff attorney at the Southern Coalition for Social Justice, and, on Thursday,...

Durham Police Seeking Public Input on Body Camera Policy

Posted by Blake Hodge | Dec 17, 2015 | Featured, Safety

Durham Police have unveiled a draft policy on the implementation of body cameras. The Durham Police Department is inviting resident to provide comments about the draft body-worn camera policy, which was released on Thursday....

New Retail Building Coming to Eastgate

Posted by Staff | Dec 17, 2015 | Development, Featured

The Eastgate BP station will be demolished to make way for a new retail building. The redevelopment plans where submitted by the Federal Realty Investment Trust in August. The plans seek to replace the gas station with a...

Larry Fedora Named Finalist for Coach of the Year

Posted by Blake Hodge | Dec 17, 2015 | Featured, UNC Sports

UNC football coach Larry Fedora has been named a finalist for the 2015 Paul “Bear” Bryant Coach of the Year Award. The seven finalists for the award were announced Wednesday. Fedora joins Iowa’s Kirk Ferentz, Houston’s Tom...

Johnson, No. 11 Tar Heels Conquer the Green Wave

Posted by Avery Trendel | Dec 16, 2015 | Basketball, Featured, UNC Sports

UNC senior forward Brice Johnson, along with the rest of the Tar Heel men’s basketball team, had a night to forget in Saturday’s loss to Texas. But on Wednesday at the Dean Dome, Johnson scored a career-high 25 points and...

UNC Named Best Value in Higher Ed

Posted by Staff | Dec 16, 2015 | Featured, UNC

For the 15th time in a row, Kiplinger Magazine has named UNC the best value among public schools in higher education. The ranking considers admission and graduation rates, student to faculty ratios and various costs, such as...

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