An early-morning fire Saturday damaged Gerrard Hall, a 19th-century building at UNC where U.S. presidents, famous poets and Hollywood stars have taken the stage.
Published: Nov. 12, 2008 12:30 AM | Full story

A sergeant with the Maryland State Police was fatally injured Friday morning as he jogged on a rural road northeast of Hillsborough.
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The younger brother of one of the Eve Carson murder suspects was shot to death Saturday night at a party that left another teen dead and two others injured.
Published: Nov. 12, 2008 12:30 AM | Full story

The Orange County Board of Commissioners will hold a budget work session Thursday at 7:30 p.m. at the Southern Human Services Center, 2501 Homestead Road, Chapel Hill. The commissioners will hold a mini-retreat Friday at 9 a.m. at Camp Chestnut Ridge
Published: Nov. 12, 2008 12:30 AM | Full story

Residents of Orange County who have curbside recycling now may include corrugated cardboard with the items they place at the curb for collection. Corrugated cardboard has three layers with a wavy inner layer. In order to recycle corrugated cardboard
Published: Nov. 12, 2008 12:30 AM | Full story

It is now Year Four. It started out innocently enough.
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Vintage clothing, pharmacy coming.
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Falling leaves fluttered in the wind as chilled mourners listened to Rabbi John Friedman read from Ecclesiastes.
Published: Nov. 12, 2008 12:30 AM | Full story

School play tackles themes of sexuality, violence.
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Here are some recent posts to the OrangeChat blog. Read and comment on more local news at blogs.newsobserver.com/orangechat/home
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Internationally renowned dance troupe Pilobolus will entertain more than 1,200 area children at 11 a.m. Nov. 21 in Memorial Hall at UNC.
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Award-winning chemistry professor Valerie Ashby will deliver the December commencement address at UNC, Chancellor Holden Thorp has announced.
Published: Nov. 12, 2008 12:30 AM | Full story

Top local stories published in The News & Observer.
Published: Nov. 9, 2008 12:30 AM | Full story

Travis Kukovich, owner of William Travis Jewelry, has been honored as one of the top jewelry designers in the country.
Published: Nov. 9, 2008 12:30 AM | Full story

Carrboro
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These are the four places Roland Giduz has lived other than his beloved Chapel Hill: Fort Bragg, France, New York City and Cambridge, Mass.
Published: Nov. 9, 2008 12:30 AM | Full story

Obama's victory recalls bygone era of racial division.
Published: Nov. 9, 2008 12:30 AM | Full story

Final vote on whether to limit pet tying to three hours a day will take place Nov. 18.
Published: Nov. 9, 2008 12:30 AM | Full story

Construction plan delays development of Carrboro High School auditorium.
Published: Nov. 9, 2008 12:30 AM | Full story

The signs are coming down. Slowly but surely the political signs for president-elect Barack Obama and Sen. John McCain are disappearing from lawns and neighborhoods. But for a while, the signs became a bellwether for how divided we are as a country a
Published: Nov. 9, 2008 12:30 AM | Full story

Democratic Rep. David Price defeated Republican B.J. Lawson to hold onto his seat in North Carolina's 4th Congressional District.
Published: Nov. 9, 2008 12:30 AM | Full story

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Carrboro
Published: Nov. 5, 2008 12:30 AM | Full story

Joanne Erwich Roberts, a longtime researcher at UNC's Frank Porter Graham Child Development Institute, died Saturday at her home.
Published: Nov. 5, 2008 12:30 AM | Full story

The Town Council heard presentations Monday from nine candidates to replace the late council member Bill Thorpe, who died of heart failure in September.
Published: Nov. 5, 2008 12:30 AM | Full story

CHAPEL HILL -- The horses never made it.
Published: Nov. 5, 2008 12:30 AM | Full story

UNC caricatures a constant source of wonder at Spanky's.
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A new parking study says downtown Chapel Hill needs more public parking.
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CHAPEL HILL -- Dick Mann says there's only one thing he can say for sure UNC wants in a redeveloped University Square property downtown.
Published: Nov. 5, 2008 12:30 AM | Full story

MY VIEW: The old blessing goes, "May you live in uninteresting times," but it's too late for that. Our times have gotten all kinds of interesting.
Published: Nov. 5, 2008 12:30 AM | Full story

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