6+ hour, 10+ min ago  (1458+ words) This article was republished from KFF Health News. Ollie Super has moved in and out of cancer treatment since she was diagnosed with neuroblastoma as a toddler in foster care. Now 8, the second grader is dealing with it again. Her…...

22+ hour, 54+ min ago  (605+ words) Bucking a national trend, North Carolina and other Southern states are expected to see an increase in high school graduates in the coming years. State university leaders hope that means the demand for college education will remain strong." But it…...

1+ day, 8+ hour ago  (762+ words) De Carlos Brown, the man accused of fatally stabbing a Ukrainian refugee last year in a Charlotte light rail train, has been deemed mentally incapable of proceeding to trial, according to a court document." On Tuesday, Brown's attorneys filed a…...

1+ day, 15+ hour ago  (1561+ words) When Chris Huntley was thinking of how Bart Ehrman should bid farewell to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, there was only one place to look. The video of Pausch's "last lecture" has amassed 22 million views on You…...

10+ mon, 1+ week ago  (947+ words) Update: The UNC-Chapel Hill Board of Trustees approved 33 tenure cases on June 4. Some UNC-Chapel Hill faculty say they are concerned about a recent Board of Trustees decision'or, rather, non-decision'on faculty tenure and promotion cases. At the board's meeting in March,…...

3+ day, 1+ hour ago  (492+ words) UNC-Chapel Hill and its trustees have settled a lawsuit brought by former Provost Chris Clemens. Neither side admitted wrongdoing or will pay any penalties. "The parties have mutually agreed to resolve the matter, with neither party recovering money from the…...

3+ day, 7+ hour ago  (714+ words) Democrats say a recruitment effort to find candidates in Republican strongholds has paid off'even in often-overlooked races down the ballot. "There's no question that state Democrats are breaking recruitment records across the country," Heather Williams, DLCC president, said in an…...

3+ day, 10+ hour ago  (1762+ words) This story is republished through our partnership with Inside Climate News. Tap, tap, tap. One for every child. Watts, a contract farmer for the poultry giant Perdue Farms, swung open a second door to the barn, where a deafening choir…...

3+ day, 15+ hour ago  (1311+ words) Misfit Mountain was left unrecognizable after Hurricane Helene. Fortunately, the nonprofit animal rescue in Clyde had moved the cats and dogs from the premises before the storm. But the pigpen, home to nine pigs, was destroyed. Debris scattered across their…...

1+ week, 3+ hour ago  (605+ words) The state Supreme Court ended a marathon court battle over funding for public schools with a ruling Thursday that said state courts can't order the legislature to spend money on education. Chief Justice Paul Newby wrote the 4-3 majority opinion that…...