City of Durham
Recent News About City of Durham
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Mike Krzyzewski on granddaughter’s graduation: ‘Eight of my grandchildren were there’
Mike Krzyzewski, the Duke University men’s basketball coach who recently retired after taking his team to the Final Four in his last season, attended his granddaughter's graduation Wednesday and had a chance to see many of his grandchildren together.
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Mother mourns slaying of son: 'I've had him for 21 years and someone just takes his life?'
Sherry Williams knows the pain of losing a child to street violence.
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Durham councilmember Freeman: 'We really want to make transformative change with this funding'
Durham is divvying up its COVID-19 relief funds, and nonprofit agencies will be among the beneficiaries.
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Durham City Manager Page: City not 'immune to what has been called the great resignation'
Durham City Manager Wanda Page presented a $568.9 million budget proposal from City Manager Wanda Page to the Durham City Council at the Monday, May 16, meeting.
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Rascoe: 'I'm guessing they were looking at my birth certificate and looking at hand sanitizer and continued to type'
Attention to detail is important in many things in life, especially an official form of identification.
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Durham mother: ‘Nobody’s focusing on the little children suffering in silence’
As Durham contends with a rising number of crimes involving firearms, mothers of those who have fallen victim to shootings gathered Saturday at Cook Road Park to raise awareness of how such events leave devastation in their wake.
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Tameka Brown on her charity's work: ‘I do it because I absolutely love the work that I do’
Helping Each Adolescent Reach Their Spark (HEARTS) has won this year's North Carolina Peace Prize, an award that the nonprofit’s founder and executive director Tameka Brown said has left her at a loss for words. The award was presented Sunday.
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NCHSAA commissioner on girls wrestling coming to high schools: 'This is a historical moment for us'
The North Carolina High School Athletic Association (NCHSAA) has broadened the list of sanctioned sports in high schools across the state for the first time in over a decade.
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CEO of Durham Housing Authority: ‘We don’t want to build large pockets of poverty’
With more than 5,000 people on the waiting list for public housing in Durham, the city is working to expand the pool of housing with the Durham Housing Authority (DHA) building or redeveloping 1,700 units, almost half of which will be public housing.
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Durham Mayor: Shot-callers have ‘been able to help quell some of this violence’
The city of Durham is implementing a new program that is tasked with working to prevent violence.
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Williams on Harriet Tubman YWCA renovation: 'We are really going to have some more good times here'
The Harriet Tubman YWCA had a heyday in the mid-1950s when it served as a center for community events and gatherings.
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Durham mayor: ‘We are a city in pain and we are struggling to make sense of the violence’
Durham Mayor Elaine O’Neal’s State of the City address April 18 seemed to be contradictory; she began by stating that the city is doing well and then enumerating its many problems, like rising violence.
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Durham business owner trying to create a 'nice place to gather without having violence or criminal activity'
A Durham business owner, who has been in a dispute over parking and accessibility with a neighboring mixed-use developer, is now advocating for action to stem violent crime.
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Mayor O'Neal addresses weekend violence: 'What I can do as mayor is do things differently'
After previously declining to speak to reporters about crime in Durham, Mayor Elaine O'Neal (D-Durham) decided it was time to talk about it following a violent weekend in the Bull City.
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Triangle small businesses are having supply issues: 'Ever since COVID, it's been hard to get products consistently'
First, businesses faced challenges like shutdowns associated with COVID-19, then came supply-chain problems that led to higher prices and scant supplies, and now the invasion of Ukraine is affecting the Triangle's small businesses.
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Durham water officials: 'Crews are working as quickly as they can to restore service'
A water main break near the intersection of North Duke Street and West Trinity Avenue had nearby residents without water and forced the Durham School of the Arts, a grades 6-12 school, to call for a virtual learning day Wednesday.
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Fundraiser held for Ukrainian dance instructor in Durham: 'Now I think every day is worse and worse'
A Ukrainian dance instructor, now working in Durham, left Ukraine just a day or so before Russia launched its military strikes -- but he left his family behind.
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Harris visits union electrical workers in Durham to tout 'the most pro-labor administration in history'
Vice President Kamala Harris and Labor Secretary Marty Walsh made the trip to Durham on March 2 to tour Durham Technical Community College and check out a union electrical worker apprentice training program.
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East Durham church and Durham County battle over property tax bill: 'This is just crazy'
A church of mostly African immigrants in East Durham has been hit with an $87,000 property tax bill from the county, even though it's supposed to be exempt from taxes as a religious institution.
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Violent crime is down overall in Durham, but murders are up 35% since 2020
Although violent crime overall is down in Durham, murders jumped 35% from 2020 to 2021, ABC 11 reported.