The Daily Tar Heel

The suspect in the Tuesday murder of a UNC housekeeper is out of jail after a judge set a low bail in the area's second domestic murder in just more than two weeks. William Stroud, 27, who is charged with first-degree murder of his stepfather, was released from the Orange County Jail about 1:45 p.m. Thursday shortly after District Court Judge Beverly Scarlett set bail at $20,000. His stepfather, Marshall Ralph Brown, 51, died at N.C. Memorial Hospital Tuesday with gun shot wounds to the back and side. (1 Comment)

The Northside neighborhood already misses Mary Norwood Jones. Friends speak of her outgoing personality. Acquaintances remember the neighborhood watch meetings she organized every month. Even strangers recall the woman who often ambled down their streets picking up scraps of litter. After Jones, 75, died on Feb. 2, board members of Empowerment Inc., a local grass roots development organization, made plans to secure (0 Comments)

OWASA to decide on water restrictions at next meeting The Orange Water and Sewer Authority will wait to decide on Stage Three water restrictions until its Feb. 28 meeting. At the OWASA Board of Directors Thursday meeting, planning director Ed Holland proposed implementing Stage Three water shortage restrictions if water levels are still below 45 percent at the next meeting. (0 Comments)

School accountability programs need reform to focus more on individual growth of students within a certain school and to study effective teaching strategies, a Duke University professor said Thursday. Helen Ladd, Edgar T. Thompson distinguished professor of economics at Duke, spoke to members of the League of Women Voters of Orange-Durham-Chatham. (0 Comments)

By Kristen cresante Staff writer Because of cuts in state reimbursement rates, about 1,500 mental health patients will be left without services this year. "It's a disaster, obviously," said Dr. John Gilmore, a psychiatrist at UNC Hospitals and a leader of the N. (1 Comment)

Officials from the Orange Water And Sewer Authority will wait to decide on Stage Three water restrictions until its Feb. 28 meeting. At the Thursday meeting of the OWASA Board of Directors, planning director Ed Holland proposed implementing Stage Three water shortage restrictions if water levels are still below 45 percent at the next meeting. (0 Comments)

Two local organizations have teamed up to educate the Latino community about drinking and driving. El Pueblo Inc., a group that began an anti-drinking and driving campaign several years ago, recently enlisted the help of Pa'lante, a Latino youth organization that produces Spanish-language media, to measure the campaign's effectiveness. (1 Comment)

?Just before 5 a.m. on Valentine's Day, Chapel Hill police arrested Evan Derose Henage for assault on a female, a misdemeanor, and assault by strangulation, a felony, according to Chapel Hill police reports. The arrest of Henage, 18, of 305 Woodhaven Road, came about two hours after he was released from his first arrest of the day, a charge of underage possession of alcohol, for which he was nabbed at 12:23 that morning, reports state. (0 Comments)