In a contentious vote Monday night, the City Council voted against re-implementing ShotSpotter in Durham. ShotSpotter, which uses acoustic sensors to detect gunshots and notify…
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You open your podcast app, put your earbuds in, and momentarily savor the silence. You press play. “Hi, it’s Phoebe.” The hushed cadence of Phoebe…
Homicides, rape incident reports, and property crime climbed in the first quarter of 2023, Durham’s Police Chief told the City Council on Thursday. Homicides spiked…
Like many elementary school libraries, R.N. Harris’ multi-media center is decorated with stuffed animals, vocabulary word posters, and hundreds of picture books. On Monday, this…
Over the last three decades, Jay Pearson, a professor of public policy at Duke University, has endured more than 65 traffic stops. The stops resulted…
In Durham County Courtroom 7C recently, prosecutor Mary Jude Darrow scans a docket of first appearances, bond hearings, and probation violations. Outside, a pair of…
The trouble started when Hillside High School student Logan Lewis hopped off the stage and into the audience wielding a fake handgun. Gunshots sounded, and…
In this latest Reflections podcast, Lilly Clark talks about how the news media’s coverage of the courts system sometimes does more harm than good.…
In Vance County on a recent Tuesday, a bail bondsman faced off against the school board attorney: $15,000 was at stake. Two eldery bailiffs manned…
Two women come before a judge seeking domestic violence protection orders. In one case, a woman alleges that her abuser is trying to get possession…