Orange County sees fewer children in foster care
The Orange County Department of Social Services is working to connect potential foster kids with relatives — meaning more of them can live with people they trust instead of strangers.
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The Orange County Department of Social Services is working to connect potential foster kids with relatives — meaning more of them can live with people they trust instead of strangers.
It was working with the Gillings School of Global Public Health’s Global AIDS project that made Jackie Kaufman aware of how many children die each year from diseases.
Earlier this year, a court dismissed two parents’ claims that their autistic daughter didn’t receive appropriate educational services from Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools.
George Kenan celebrated his 100th birthday and 26th year as a burn survivor at the North Carolina Jaycee Burn Center’s 22nd annual “Celebration of Life” event Saturday.
Panzanella restaurant in Carr Mill Mall is shutting down after 14 years of business.
The Chapel Hill Town Council tabled a public hearing that would have examined funding options for providing water and sewer hook ups to the Rogers Road neighborhood during its meeting Monday night.
When she saw an ad for Monday Night Law at the Chapel Hill Public Library, Mengnan Dennis knew she could finally receive the legal advice she needed.
Natalie Dankner used to hate her job as an office assistant, but now she can’t wait to get to work.
The town of Chapel Hill wants to purchase Camelot Village Condominiums — a community damaged by floods six times in the past 30 years.
Insurance won’t cover a large amount of leftover damage from this summer’s flooding in Chapel Hill, members of the Town Council said at a meeting Monday night.
CLARIFICATION: An earlier version of this story had a quote that said UNC Hospitals does not provide adequate housing support for its patients. N.C. Children’s Hospital’s 64-bed inpatient unit features private patient rooms, each equipped with a private bathroom and foldout bed that enables parents to stay with their child. The hospital also has a limited number of family sleep rooms for parents of children in the intensive care unit.
Chapel Hill’s once-famed Ramshead Rathskeller will not return to its cellar home just off Franklin Street — but three other businesses could soon occupy the space the restaurant vacated in 2008.
Orange County is evaluating its own preparedness for threats after Monday’s Boston Marathon bombing left three dead and more than 140 injured.
Hillsborough is joining Chapel Hill focusing on food trucks.
One Irish pub out. One Irish pub in.
Danita Mason-Hogans has spent more than two years trying to open the Howard & Lillian Lee Scholars Charter School in Carrboro.
Chapel Hill residents can now access public art via their smartphones.
William Fonville might be 84 years old, but that doesn’t stop him from throwing his teammates into the air.
Derrick Dula was sitting on the porch of his apartment in Carrboro the night of Jan. 26 when he saw something floating in the sky.
Josh Bryan, an entrepreneur and recent graduate of UNC’s Kenan-Flagler Business School, wanted to help kids create their own superhero action figure.