Orange County News

Local off-year elections this season and the upcoming mid-term elections in 2014 will include several historic runs by openly gay and lesbian candidates across the state.

Derek Abaroa visited his brother and sister-in-law at their home on Ferrand Drive in fall 2004.

Splatspace is a nonprofit organization that calls itself "Durham's hackerspace," but the term "hacker" in this context does not mean breaking into protected databases.

County Manager Frank Clifton offered a $185.9-million budget Tuesday that maintains the property tax rate, adds $2.4 million to school funding and includes a 3 percent raise for county employees.

Scott Lanier, a Hillsborough insurance agent, recalled Raven and Janet Abaroa applying for separate policies as well as a renter’s insurance policy which Raven Abaroa made a claim on for a stolen personal computer shortly after his wife’s death.

Luke Smith is executive director of El Futuro, a nonprofit that helps the Latino community with mental health and addiction counseling.

The War on Drugs has accounted for more than 45 million arrests, made America the world's largest jailer, and damaged poor communities at home and abroad, say the filmmakers behind the award-winning documentary "The House I Live In." Yet for all that, drugs are cheaper, purer, and more available today than ever before.

Some might say an amazing burst of flavor in every bite. And they will both be featured at Saturday’s East Meets West food festival in Morrisville.

The increase, a penny each for the general fund and Chapel Hill Transit's growing costs, would raise the town tax rate to 51.4 cents per $100 in assessed property value.

The search for a new city manager will likely be a complicated process that takes up to six months, UNC-Chapel Hill government professors told the Raleigh City Council this week.

Sonja Flood said she looked through Raven Abaroa's bags when he was staying with her family in Virginia for a short time after her sister's death because she thought he was not fully cooperating with the police investigation.

Orange County health officials advise people who may have attended recent HYAA baseball games to be alert to symptoms of the measles.

Residents have worked for nearly 25 years to get a southern branch library in Carrboro.

Michael Jacobs makes interesting points which will hopefully set off much needed debate in Orange County ), where I've lived for over 30 years, but his "irrefutable message" that Orange County is becoming less diverse surprisingly fails to address the dramatic increases in Latino/Hispanic and Asian populations here over the past dozen years.

The N.C. Court of Appeals did not rule on the merits of the men's lawsuit against the town of Chapel Hill.

Abaroa, 33, is charged with murder in the fatal stabbing of his pregnant wife at their Durham home eight years ago.

This graphic, provided by the North Carolina Department of Commerce's Labor and Economic Analysis Division, illustrates statewide county unemployment rates for March 2013.

A pair of eighth graders from Smith Middle School in Chapel Hill defeated 88 other teams from all over the United States and Canada to win the 11th annual 2013 National School SCRABBLE Championship.

The Orange County Solid Waste Management Department will sponsor a ReUse Rodeo Student Move-out Week from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Tuesday, May 7, to Friday, May 10, at the Hargrave’s Center Mitchell Lane parking lot.

A worker moves the last beam into place Thursday, May 2, 2013, atop UNC Health Care's new hospital under construction in Hillsborough.