Durham

Officials at a pharmaceutical plant in North Carolina have launched an investigation into the discovery of two nooses at a construction site.

Tyler Zombro, a right-hander in the Tampa Bay Rays organization, was hit by a sharp liner from Norfolk’s Brett Cumberland in the eighth inning on Thursday. The frightening scene prompted Triple-A Durham to suspend its game.

This month, thousands of students across North Carolina who've been learning remotely during the pandemic are visiting their schools just for end-of-grade exams.

In the decades after Emancipation, many African Americans left the rural South amid the Great Migration. In the meantime, many white home owners across the United States were encouraged to add language to their deeds, making it illegal for Black people to ever live in their houses.

C.J. Davis has been Durham's Chief of Police for five years. She previously worked in Atlanta. In Memphis, she'll be the first woman to lead the department.

The federal $1.9 trillion stimulus bill did not include a measure to raise the federal minimum wage. North Carolina, like 21 others that set state-level minimums, is as low as federal law allows: $7.25, unchanged since 2009.

Aurea Yolotzin Soto Morales, known to her friends and family as Yoshi, was a fun-loving, studious girl. Born and raised in Durham, she attended second-grade at Creekside Elementary and at 8 years old, had a long list of interests.

After a successful start to their vaccine rollout, the Durham VA Health Care System is now offering vaccine appointments to all enrolled veterans, regardless of age, health status or job description.

Google plans to establish a new engineering hub in Durham. The space will serve as an office for Google Cloud’s engineering team. The site is expected to bring about 1,000 jobs.