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In today’s news: an Orange County resident is arrested on multiple drug-trafficking charges, and officials investigate a string of break-ins in Hillsborough. Also: transitions in local government, with a new Orange County manager and a new economic development director in Chapel Hill; another record year for UNC researchers; high rankings for UNC Hospitals; a procedural shift for UNC’s Honor Court; praise for Chapel Hill’s rental housing market; and the advantages of having Stanford coming into the ACC.

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