Are electric scooters coming back to Chapel Hill?
At last week's Town Council meeting, council members and the community discussed the viability of e-scooters returning to Chapel Hill.
PUBLIC SAFETY
Alcohol Law Enforcement went out this weekend, but got much less hungover than we did
During the first of eight planned patrols, the Chapel Hill Police Department wrote one open-container citation. Read more about how the CHPD is working to enforce underage drinking laws.
Police Reports: Jan. 15 - Jan.17
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Chapel Hill Police Reports: Jan. 10 - Jan. 14
A roundup of Chapel Hill Police reports from Jan. 10 - 14.
Maple View Ice Cream was burglarized, again
On Jan. 7, the popular Maple View Ice Cream shop was broken into in the middle of the night. This is the third instance of burglary at the store in the past three years.
Two months after replacing CFD, Night School has been shut down
Two months after Country Fried Duck was shut down and rebranded as "Night School," the bar has once again lost its liquor license.
Here's what you missed at the UNC-system Campus Safety and Security meeting
Here's a preview of what the 2019 UNC-system Safety and Security Conference will look like.
Chapel Hill Police Reports: Jan. 3 - Jan.7
Here's some highlights from the Chapel Hill Police log for Jan. 3 - 7.
Durham ICE arrest deviates from usual enforcement policy
Plainclothes ICE officers posing as other immigrants filling out paperwork detained Samuel Oliver-Bruno in Durham on Nov. 23.
Protesters oppose Chancellor Folt, Chief Blue's inclusion in UNC summit on student safety
“I don’t believe (Folt and Blue are) experts on student safety." “I believe their actions have been antithetical to student safety, especially on campus, but in the broader community as well.”
Chapel Hill Police Reports: Nov. 29 - Dec. 2
A roundup of police reports from the weekend of Nov. 29 to Dec. 2.
Orange County Sheriff's Department to adopt body cameras
The Orange County Sheriff's Department added body cameras to uniforms. Here's how this benefits officers and the communities they serve.
Biking along West Rosemary Street just got a lot safer
Chapel Hill is working to improve their bronze rating by The League of American Bicyclists to a gold.
Does the coal ash under the Chapel Hill Police station pose a public health risk?
The Town of Chapel Hill is deciding what to do to protect the public from a potentially toxic finding of buried coal ash.
Simple assault reported outside of Lenoir Dining Hall
An Alert Carolina message was not released.
Carrboro Elementary School active shooter call placed by student, police find
Check back with The Daily Tar Heel for more updates on the story.
Chapel Hill Police Reports: Nov. 15 - Nov. 17
Here's a weekly crime roundup.
Goldsboro principal charged with statutory rape found dead in Orange County
Richard Knight was the principal at Dillard Academy.
How stripping helped one UNC student pay her drug citation fees
After being caught with under an ounce of marijuana, one student said she turned to stripping to cover the hundreds of dollars in fees and court costs. “My friends were stripping at a club, and you can make a lot of money doing that," she said. "So, I did it to make the money I needed.” In one night, she earned all the money to pay for her drug citation. It was her first time stripping, but it wouldn’t be her last.
