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Leilah Powell, who worked at City Hall for Mayor Ed Garza before a four-year stretch in government relations at Bexar County, will advise Taylor on policy issues.

A groundbreaking study from the Frank Porter Graham Child Development Institute has found that African-American students in first grade experience smaller gains in reading when they attend segregated schools-but the students' backgrounds likely are not the cause of the differences.

A cultured liver cancer cell infected with Hepatitis C. The virus, stained red, surrounds the blue-stained nucleus and is in the process of being reproduced by virus within the cytoplasm.

ChemDraw provides chemists with a rich set of easy-to-use tools for creating publication-ready, scientifically meaningful drawings of molecules and reactions.

The Local Government Federal Credit Union recently recognized Serena Hill, of Lawndale, with a LGFCU Scholarship Award.

The SFC holds numerous recordings on the Library of Congress' National Recording Registry, including Dolly Parton's first recording "Puppy Love."

"The story of Belhaven is bigger than the trials of a single small town," Mayor Adam O'Neal said at a news conference Monday in Washington, D.C. The 45-year-old registered Republican started his two-week march of more than 200 miles to protest the closing of Vidant Pungo Hospital in Belhaven on July 1. Greenville-based Vidant agreed in April to ... (more)

Lincoln County is celebrating the reign of a new Apple Queen. Abby Jane Hord, a rising senior at North Lincoln High School, was crowned Lincoln County Apple Queen, a title which holds a $3,000 scholarship to further her education.

Editor's note: Thirty years ago, Newsday published this article by a professor of history and dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, one of only 41 NCI-designated comprehensive cancer centers and the largest research entity at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, is seeking to fill several key positions to complete our seasoned development team.

The NHRMC Physician Group is pleased to announce the addition of Michael Jaskolka, DDS, MD, to its maxillofacial surgery team.

Postdoctoral fellowship/research associate position in neuroimmunology is available immediately at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Department of Neurology, Division of Neuroimmunology.

Heaven welcomed Loretta Kathleen Albright Muckley on July 22, 2014. She passed away at St. Paul University Hospital, UT Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas, Texas.

Hayleigh Tasha Stewart of Huntersville, N.C., and Pinaki Santra of Elkins were married April 26. The ceremony was at 5 p.m. at Governor Thomas Bennett House in Charleston, S.C. The bride's godmother, Franza Giffen, officiated.

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has endured bad publicity for its problems with athletes and academics.

The Local Government Federal Credit Union recently announced that Emily Harrison is the recipient of an LGFCU scholarship award.

CDC announced today the formation of an external laboratory safety workgroup of the Advisory Committee to the Director of CDC.

Clara Murphy Bond Bell of Windsor and Edenhouse in Bertie County, North Carolina died Monday, July 21. The oldest of four children of Mary Elizabeth Murphy and Walter Holland Bond, she was born August 9, 1925.

What if a bunch of scientists were somehow able to clone Marilyn Monroe? Suppose they were able to program her brain with everything about the former Norma Jean Baker.

Ellen de Graffenreid, senior vice president for communications at Brandeis University in Waltham, Mass., has been named vice chancellor of marketing and communications at MU, effective Sept.