Chapel Hill News

By MARY BAINES District Attorney Robert Evans welcomed Tonya Montanye, new financial crimes prosecutor for Eastern North Carolina, to the Seventh Prosecutorial District on April 8. 'We are pleased to have a prosecutor with the experience and commitment that Ms.

RALEIGH The head of the N.C. Democratic Party is facing questions about credit card charges made during a March trip to a Las Vegas casino to watch basketball games with his old college buddies.

The drafted plan he opposes would raise sales taxes by a half-cent to pay for expanded bus service to every Wake town and install a commuter rail between Raleigh, Durham and Chapel Hill.

New York theater ensemble The TEAM -- which will be developing a new performance piece while in residence with PlayMakers Repertory Company at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill -- will unveil its work-in-progress May 29 at 7:30 p.m. at Frey Rehearsal Hall in the Center for Dramatic Art on Country Club Road.

The Greensboro, N.C. native will make his college intentions known where he plays high school ball, Wesleyan Christian High School .

This is the study's lead author, Ronald Chen, M.D., M.P.H., assistant professor of Radiation Oncology in the UNC School of Medicine.

The OWASA Board of Directors will hold public hearings on the proposed budget, rates and capital investment program at 7 p.m. Thursday, May 23, in Chapel Hill Town Hall, 405 Martin Luther King Jr.

Foreign languages were again the draw for a standing-room crowd that spilled out the Chapel Hill-Carrboro school board's meeting room last week.

In this photo taken April 3, 2013, nutrition scholar Prof. Barry Popkin, head of the University of North Carolina Food Research Program, discusses his study, what foods Americans are purchasing in stores and eating, in his office at UNC-Chapel Hill.

It's important to invest as much as possible in your dreams, Middle College High School senior Eeyi Oon told her classmates on Friday afternoon.

He ended up having a random conversation that has transformed not only his life but also his city.

Brian Gregory Minton, who was found guilty of first-degree murder in the death of Joshua Bailey, has appealed his conviction saying the case against him was weak and prosecutors bolstered it by using inadmissible character evidence.

Johnson has a proposal for doing exactly that. He wants to provide his employees with a pay raise in 2013-14 using available funds within his budget to keep more of them from leaving the department for financial reasons.

The S.A. Gilliam Scholarship Awards Banquet is among the highlights of the celebration.

For their third release, "Coyotes," the wife-and-husband-duo of Andrea and Pete Connolly - better known as Birds and Arrows - wanted to extend their sound palette.

Colin Moran strays a bit from my previous two spotlights on Clint Frazier and Kris Bryant.

Dogs have to stay on leashes in Raleigh parks but can run freely at three dog parks: Oakwood , Millbrook Exchange and Carolina Pines .

The Red Bicycle Coffee and Crepes opened a few months ago after relocating to Germantown from Chapel Hill, N.C. I've been meaning to stop in for a while, but I was finally able to get over there for the first time a couple of weeks ago.

All you've got to do is get on the L train, and you're going to see every version of every character in our play.' Age & Hometown: 31; Chapel Hill, NC.

Former presidential contender John Edwards has reactivated his license to practice law and is setting out on the speaking circuit.