Police suspect the woman they say hit a female student and fled the scene likely had drugs or alcohol in her system at the time of the accident.

One of the most heavily frequented campus crosswalks was the scene of a hit-and-run Monday that sent one senior to the hospital, leaving witnesses shaken and Cameron Avenue stained with blood.

For months, students have questioned the consistency of the University’s emergency notification policies.

The 27-year-old woman who reported being raped near Franklin Street Thursday has asked Chapel Hill Police not to pursue the investigation, according to a Tuesday press release.

A woman told police that she was forced behind a dumpster and raped in an alley at 101 S. Columbia St. at about 2:15 a.m. Thursday, according to Chapel Hill police reports.

A woman was forced behind a dumpster and raped in the alley behind Cosmic Cantina at about 2:15 a.m. Thursday, according to police reports. Chapel Hill police reports state that a woman was raped at 101 S. Columbia St. The incident occurred during the hours that followed UNC’s basketball game against Duke University Wednesday night.

When confronted with the most serious of campus emergencies, UNC students and faculty can now turn to a bright yellow sign for help.

Just months after UNC was forced to review its emergency response protocol, East Carolina University now finds itself in a similar predicament — albeit for a different reason.

In the days following the murder of former Student Body President Eve Carson, a wave of shock resounded throughout the normally quiet town of Chapel Hill. More than three years later, local officials say Carson’s death sparked a change in how Chapel Hill officials and University students work together, which has in turn strengthened public safety options for students.

East Carolina University is learning from its mistakes — one black umbrella at a time.

The University has yet to implement new sexual assault guidelines prompted by the U.S. Department of Education last spring. While administrators planned to have new policies enacted this fall, the handling of sexual assault cases has instead fallen on the back-burner, leaving the University’s Honor Court in limbo.

A South Campus crosswalk has faded white lines and a single yield sign greeting southbound drivers on Skipper Bowles Drive. Located at the end of the curve looping around Ram Village building 4, a driver might miss it.

The presence of Adderall on college campuses has led some administrators to call into question the ethics behind the unauthorized use of the drug.

Less than a week after revising its emergency alert system, the University sounded its sirens for the first time in campus history for something that was not a drill.

Chapel Hill Transit might be forced to cut entire bus routes and reduce the frequency of bus stops due to a lack of funds.

As Laurence Alvin Lovette Jr. approaches a Nov. 28 trial on charges of Carson’s murder, one of the former student body president’s major initiatives — the expansion of blue light call boxes off campus — has been realized, and a Daily Tar Heel survey found the condition of on-campus lights has improved.

As many out-of-state students board the free shuttle to the airport today for Fall Break, they can count on the service being more consistent for the rest of the year, coordinators said.

About $20,000 was appropriated to the seven organizations that came before Student Congress Tuesday. Funding proposals were brought forward by several organizations, including the Black Student Movement, Project Literacy and the UNC Longboarding Club.

Property-related crimes are on the rise in several area apartment complexes, including some popular among University students.

A “suspicious device” discovered in an Appalachian State University campus building Monday was not a bomb, say campus and town police officials.