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Going Green!  This Saturday’s commencemt will feature graduates in plastic gowns.

Singer and Minister of Music, Simone Moore (pictured), allegedly used a Taser on a pastor who just fired him, which set off a terrible confrontation. It ended up with a deacon stabbing the Moore’s mother. It all went down a week ago at New Welcome Baptist Church in Alabama after Rev. Darryl Riley told Moore […]

The North Carolina Dental Society is having a free clinic today and tomorrow at the RBC center in Raleigh.

Meals on Wheels are looking for volunteer drivers to help feed people – Aug. 12th & 15th.  Check out the routes in and around Durham . 

August has been a dramatic month for Fantasia Barrino. Not only did Tasia “officially” announce her pregnancy in front of a live audience in Jacksonville, FL, we also found out that her baby daddy (to be), Antwan Cook, is still a very married man. In addition to those very serious life changes, Tasia has now […]

About 150 drivers in the Triangle have already signed up but the program is still open to 300 more.

National recording VaShawn Mitchell will perform tonight at Pastor Shirley Caesars’s “Wilt Thou Be Made Whole” conference.

This promises to be the biggest year for charter schools in North Carolina since the law allowing them passed nearly 15 years ago. Students and teachers at Torchlight Academy, all in uniforms of white shirts and Navy blue slacks, jumpers or skirts, walk hallways where banners trumpet test results and goals. The fifth-grade boys class […]

href=”http://dev.oomphcloud.com/thelightnc.com/files/2011/07/22.jpg”>  This past Wednesday I was at the McDonald’s located on South Street in Raleigh and on Thursday at the McDonald’s located on Hwy 54 in Durham.