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Down 55-34 at halftime, the party that was Michigan State's magical season began to fizzle and sputter in downtown Detroit on Monday night, while the streets of Chapel Hill buzzed.
Wayne Ellington had another big game against Clemson, and No. 5 North Carolina added another year of misery to the 10th-ranked Tigers' streak of futility in Chapel Hill.
Federal prosecutors say they will seek the death penalty against a man charged with killing the student body president of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Shawn Turschak of Chapel Hill was tired of someone stealing McCain-Palin campaign signs from his yard. Turschak, with a degree in electrical engineering, hooked up a third sign to a power source for an electric pet fence Monday and also put up a surveillance camera.
A federal grand jury on Monday indicted one of two men accused in the slaying of the student body president at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, adding on to state murder charges.
A former student was sentenced to up to 33 years in prison Tuesday for plowing his sport utility vehicle into a crowd at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in a self-professed bid to avenge Muslim deaths overseas.
A former student accused of plowing his sport utility vehicle into a campus crowd, hitting nine people, in a self-professed bid to avenge Muslim deaths overseas pleaded guilty Tuesday to first-degree attempted murder.
Eve Carson was, some might say, being responsible when she decided to stay home and study as her college roommates went out on a Tuesday night.
A grand jury has added charges against two men accused of killing the student body president at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
A slain North Carolina student body president likely raised her arm to try to shield herself from a shotgun blast that hit her in the hand and head, according to an autopsy report released Monday.
North Carolina point guard Ty Lawson was charged Friday with driving after consuming alcohol following an early morning traffic stop.
Chelsea Clinton returned Monday to North Carolina, telling college students that the world will "breathe a sigh of relief" once President Bush leaves office. Clinton spoke Monday during a town hall meeting with students at North Carolina State University. She later moved on to Peace College in Raleigh to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
North Carolina played every bit like the top overall seed to start the NCAA tournament.
The inexact science of putting together the NCAA tournament bracket turned out to be pretty exact this time around. No big beefs with the top seeds — North Carolina, Memphis, Kansas and UCLA.
Detectives are searching for a man photographed using the ATM card of the University of North Carolina student body president found shot to death on a city street, police said Saturday.
The University of North Carolina student body president was found shot to death on a city street in what police said Thursday appeared to be a random crime, stunning the campus community who knew her well.
As advanced science plays a larger role in courtrooms across the country, judges who earned degrees in English or the humanities face the daunting task of making informed decisions about some very technical disputes. That's why judges from across the Southeast gathered Friday for a crash course with medical and genetics experts at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Brain anomaly tied to autismAn area of the brain that helps read facial cues is larger in toddlers with autism than in children without the disorder.
Boy Photoshops girl: A Flickr love story - An illustrated Internet romance tests our unwillingness to believeExcerpt: Rosie Hardy and Aaron Nace are together for Valentine's Day, which no doubt thrills their Flickr fans who've been following the couple's 9 ½-month relationship via the photo-sharing Web site almost since the beginning.
News & Observer (NC): It's ObamaToday, a little more than two weeks from this critically important Election Day, The News & Observer, with pride and hope, in the belief that Obama is exactly what the nation needs at a time when the hills are steep and the winds against us are stiff, enthusiastically endorses hi …
Chapel Hill North Carolina trying to attract gay tourismChapel Hill was the first town in the North Carolina to include sexual orientation as a category of hate crime law, as well as the first to elect an openly gay council member.
"Chapel Hill Jihadi" Gets 33 Years" A judge Tuesday sentenced Mohammed Taheri-azar to 26 to 33 years in prison for plowing into a UNC crowd and injuring nine people in March 2006.
It Eats CO2 [and me] for Breakfast - NYTimes.comPOISON IVY is one of those weeds proliferating like mad as rising levels of greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide heat up the atmosphere.
Jerusalem Attack: Sudden Jihad Syndrome?"Individual Islamists may appear law-abiding and reasonable, but they are part of a totalitarian movement, and as such, all must be considered potential killers.
While perusing one of our best local independent and progressive newspapers, the Independent Weekly, here in the triangle area of NC, which includes Raleigh, Durham and Chapel Hill, I found this terrific local band, who sadly is calling it quits after 5 years.
Eve Maria Carson, 22, was a senior and the student body president at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Slain Woman Found Near UNC Is Student Body PresidentWhat is happening to our society? Officers spent most of Wednesday and Thursday morning following up and searching for leads in the case. At a news conference Thursday, they called it a "fairly random crime."
Breaking News: High Schoolers Cheat on a Test!!Four Chapel Hill High School students have been disciplined for cheating on a mid-term social studies exam and the school is continuing to investigate the matter, a spokeswoman for the Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools district said today.
SA winemaker 'world's best'A SOUTH Australian has been crowned the world's winemaker of the year at the prestigious International Wine and Spirit Competition in London. Michael Fragos, the chief winemaker at McLaren Vale's Chapel Hill winery, was named winner of the gong last night.
Edwards Attempts to Stifle Student Media A UNC-Chapel Hill journalism professor said John Edwards' presidential campaign tried to kill a student's video story about his campaign headquarters.
With Just 69 Days Remaining In The Water Supply, Duke and UNC are Watering Astroturf FieldsIt's not even real grass. But in the midst of what may be the worst drought ever in North Carolina, Duke University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill are watering the synthetic turfs used by their field hockey teams.
Trio share Nobel Prize; one from University of North CarolinaA professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is among this year's winners of the Nobel Prize in medicine.
Edwards' Campaign Headquarters Evacuated AgainA suspicious package addressed to Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards forced the evacuation of his campaign headquarters Thursday, the third time authorities have responded to letters addressed to the office.
Popular Online Breakup Staged; 750K hits on YouTubePopular Online Breakup Staged, Couple Says YouTube Video Gets 750,000 Views
No Big Bang? Endless Universe Made Possible by New ModelA new cosmological model demonstrates the universe can endlessly expand and contract, providing a rival to Big Bang theories and solving a thorny modern physics problem, according to University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill physicists.
Going Green on Campus: Students lead the wayThe UNC University System accounts for about half of all state government energy costs, so related policy changes at our public universities have the potential to significantly alter the state's energy use and mix.
University Jeep Attacker explains motivationStudents and teachers continued to try to make sense of last week's violence, struggling with whether to label it terrorism or the actions of one disturbed individual. University officials said they thought Mr. Taheri-azar had acted alone. The F.B.I.
FBI Joins Investigation Of UNC Hit-And-Run23 year-old (Muslim, native of Iran) drove his car around UNC Campus, injured 9 people. Police say he may have acted to "avenge American treatment of Muslims". Is being charged with nine counts of attempted murder and assault with a deafly weapon with intent to kill.
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