A Moment in Durham: ‘You don’t have something like this anywhere else’
By Gwyneth Bernier
Ping! The silver pinball ricochets off a triceratops’s horns. Ping! It bounces back with the flick of a stegosaurus’s tail. Ping! The ball rebounds off...
Fostering controversy: Does Child Protective Services unfairly keep parents from their children?
By Charlotte Kramon
Kellie Smith wants to spend the holidays with her children. “I missed my kids having their first steps, them crawling for the first time, them...
School board celebrates surprise $18 million gift
By Max Rego
During Thursday’s Durham Board of Education meeting, Superintendent Pascal Mubenga applauded billionaire philanthropist MacKenzie Scott’s $18 million donation to the school district, but urged patience...
The therapist who baa-aas at your problems
By Jacqueline Cole
On a recent Sunday morning, I went to therapy feeling optimistic and left smelling like goat pee. To get my therapy, I drove 25 minutes...
A Courthouse Moment: “We do not have a body.”
By Akiya Dillon
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...
Hillside leader tapped as Principal of the Year — again
By Max Rego
A row of college baseball caps decorates the wall behind William T. Logan’s desk. The caps — from Clemson University, North Carolina State University and...
A bitter choice for domestic violence survivors: Pay an expensive lawyer — or represent themselves
By Adejuwon Ojebuoboh
Judge Amanda Maris rocked her gray chair back and forth at the mahogany bench in her courtroom, where she was hearing cases involving domestic violence. ...
Smooth election in N.C. was “a positive sign for democracy”
By Chase Pellegrini de Paur and Hana Stepnick
Despite worries of voter intimidation, chaos at the polls, and post-election denialism, North Carolina’s midterm voting seems to have run smoothly. “I can say without...
A Durham moment: “Watch them waggle”
By Jacqueline Cole
“He loved the bees,” John Replogle, former CEO of Burt’s Bees, recalls of Burt Shavitz, the company’s founder. “Just the idea that there was an...
A moment in Durham: ‘We do not walk past without saying their names’
By Claire Kraemer
On a balmy Sunday afternoon at Beechwood Cemetery, Melva Rigel walked up to the grave of Viola Turner (1900-1988). Beneath the small stone marker on...

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The Count

Counting Durham’s ballots.