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Adidas and Beverly Hills designer Jeremy Scott thought they were pushing shoe design forward with their new ”JS Roundhouse Mid” sneaker that comes with a set of plastic shackles attached.The shoe was to come out in August with the tag line: “Got a sneaker game so hot you lock your kicks to your ankles?” Needless […]
Did school administrators go too far? The mother of a Clinton third-grader thinks so after her child was strip-searched after being accused of stealing money from another student. Clarinda Cox says her 10-year-old son, Justin, a student at Union Elementary School, was ordered to take off everything but his T-shirt and boxer shorts on June 1 after a […]
Nathaniel Holmes told ABC 11 reporters that he feared for his life when his was robbed just before locking up a local Dollar Store in Durham. He and others were ordered back into the store by a man wearing a Green Goblin mask and carrying a gun. Holmes was releaved to hear that police had […]
Meteorologists say, “It’s going to be more summer-like this week as we welcome in the first week of summer. Temperatures are predicted to stay above 90 degrees for the rest of the week and very humid. Rain chances are likely at the beginning of the week but dry up by mid-week. source: […]
The Triangle housing market continued its run of positive sales growth in May, with sales increasing 28 percent and pending sales up 30 percent over the same period a year ago. There were 1,954 homes sold during the month in Durham, Johnston, Orange and Wake county, Triangle Multiple Listing Services data show. The numbers were […]
Wake County school board members are clashing with staff over the extent of sweeping grading changes that would affect how all of the district’s 150,000 students are evaluated on their report cards. School administrators back an overhaul that’s supposed to make teachers issue more consistent grades, with the marks reflecting a student’s knowledge as opposed […]
Police were searching Sunday for a 2000 to 2004 black Chevrolet Monte Carlo that lost its right-side rear-view mirror when it hit a bicyclist on Hillsborough Street near Ashe Avenue at about 1 a.m. Saturday evening, officers charged Saturday evening that a woman was driving while impaired when an SUV she was operating came up […]
The John Edwards jury told a federal judge today it had reached a verdict only on one of six campanign-finance charges, sending the courtroom into confusion and opening the door to a mistrial. Jurors told Judge Catherine Eagles they had reached a unanimous verdict only on Count 3 of the indictment. That charge pertains specifically […]
On its ninth day of deliberations Thursday, the jury at the campaign finance trial of Sen. John Edwards reached a milestone that raised hopes verdicts may be near: the jurors asked to keep deliberating as they eat lunch. “The jury has indicated they want to work through lunch today,” U.S. District Court Judge Catherine Eagles […]
The Franklin County School Board voted unanimously Tuesday to eliminate prayer in schools and some residents are upset. The American Civil Liberties Union sent a letter to the school district last week after a Franklinton High School parent complained to the ACLU that there was a prayer at a recent awards ceremony for graduating […]
