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The American Civil Liberties Union of North Carolina says there are potentially thousands of inmates who have been wrongfully convicted because of a…

Legions of fans will flock to Lake Lure, NC this weekend for the third annual Dirty Dancing Festival, a celebration of the 1987 movie starring Patrick…

In 2010, the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art had to return 16 silver cups and bowls to a little town in Sicily called Morgantina.The artifacts were…

In 1950, World War II veteran Hoover Adams scored a $15,000 loan from his father-in-law to start a newspaper in Dunn, North Carolina. He called it The…

Ai Weiwei is a prominent Chinese contemporary artist who gets press attention for his politics as much as for his art work.He has criticized the Chinese…

The American Tobacco Factory shut down manufacturing in Durham in 1987. For years this space sat idle and deteriorating.But in 2004, Glaxo moved in as the…

Pam Gutlon owns Outsider Art & Collectibles in Durham, but her work is beyond bringing artists and their paintings into her gallery.She also focuses on…

Rib spreaders allow doctors the ability to get inside the human chest and fix the internal organs. However, these devices, created in the 1930s, can do a…

An experience early in Merle Hoffman’s career as a counselor solidified her life’s mission. She was asked to speak to and comfort a woman who was…

Jay Leutze was a non-practicing lawyer writing a novel, working for the Southern Appalachian Highlands Conservancy and minding his own business in his…