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This morning the local Rescue Mission in Durham kicked off their annual back to school party and backpack giveaway. Listen as Melissa talks with Co-founder Ernie Mills wife Gayle about the event: For 14 years the Durham Rescue Mission has been providing bookbags and schools supplies to underprivileged children in the community. This year they […]
Yesterday’s headlines in the local N&O newspaper read “Wrongly imprisoned men to get $12M.” Greg Taylor spent 17years in prison and Floyd Brown was held in Dorthea Dix mental facility for 14years for crimes they did not commit. Yesterday evening around 5:30pm another man was exonerated, Larry Lamb was released after 20 years in prison […]
Gov. McCrory has signed the controversial voter ID bill into law, that would require all NC residents to present a valid ID before they can vote. Now the NC- NAACP, who has been against the bill from the beginning has scheduled a news conference at 9:30 today to discuss the changes and talk about talk […]
Union workers at Fayetteville’s Goodyear plant are learning details on their proposed new contract. The tentative contract must be approved by union members which is why two informational meetings on the terms have been set for this week. The first was held Monday at Pine Forest Middle School in Fayetteville just down the road from […]
The UNC sexual assault task force is meeting Monday in another effort toward enhancing the policies and procedures for UNC Chapel Hill on how it responds to sexual assaults on campus. The task force was formed after several women filed a federal complaint against the university about how the school handled the cases. Although the […]
Join Victorious Praise for their Back 2 School – End of Summer Jam. Go to www.victoriouspraise.org to register to receive free school supplies, free vouchers for “Hair cuts & styles,” Friday August 9th at 5pm at 2116 Page Rd. in Durham, NC. (919) 957-7500. ALSO…. Back 2 School Rally & Giveaway Event Date: 08/10/2013 […]
The “Expanding Your Vision Conference 2013” begins tonight at Word Of God Fellowship – 3000 Rock Quarry Rd. in Raleigh, NC. Listen as Melissa talks with Bishop Frank Summerfield about the conference and its musical guest Israel Houghton:
The Durham County School Board said Thursday it has reprimanded Superintendent Eric Becoats after an investigation showed he acted inappropriately by using a school activity bus and driver on two occasions in June. The bus was used to transport Dr. Becoats’ friends and family to private events over the course of the weekend, including a […]
Unemployment rates increased in 81 of the state’s counties in June, including in all 14 metro areas. The State Department of Commerce released the figures Tuesday. In Wake County, the unemployment rate is 7.4 percent, up from 7.0 in May. Cumberland and Harnett Counties both rose to 10.5 percent. Scotland County has the highest unemployment […]
Former NC State men’s basketball coach Sidney Lowe is expected to make his way back to the courtroom Wednesday on state income tax evasion charges. Lowe was arrested in February and charged with three counts of willful failure to file a North Carolina tax return from 2009 to 2011, the last three years he coached […]
