After kindergarteners take their seats at a small octagonal table at Lakewood Elementary School, their teacher tells them in Spanish to pick up a blue…
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The bailiff rolled Sterling Whitted into Courtroom 7D in a wheelchair Monday morning. He looked around with wide eyes through his thick, plastic glasses. His…
A familiar sign on the gallery that helped ignite downtown Durham’s arts scene is gone. What was once Pleiades Gallery is now 5 Points Gallery.…
Courtroom 4D ran a bit like a zoo. The electric candy-pop of someone’s phone accented the hum of whispers, laughs, and shuffling that was so…
In a stunning blow to prosecutors, a Durham judge ruled Monday that much of the evidence in the Alexander Bishop case should be tossed…
On any given Wednesday in District Court, Judge Amanda Maris settles into her high-backed chair and begins to read names. “Todd Burgess,” she calls out…
The second day of a hearing in the case of Alexander Bishop, a 17-year-old boy accused of killing his father with a dog leash, was…
Correction: This story has been updated. An earlier version incorrectly said that Bishop said in his 911 call that he found his father on the…
This fall, The 9th Street Journal is going to court. We’ve launched a special project to cover the Durham courthouse. We’ll be reporting on cases…
Editor’s note: This story has been updated with new information about Smoot being charged. Durham police arrested a security guard in connection with a shooting…