The city of Durham paid retired police Capt. Darrell Dowdy $350,000 to settle a lawsuit that accused city officials of abandoning him after losing a lawsuit linked to wrongful murder convictions. In that case, a jury ordered Dowdy to pay $6 million for a faulty investigation that resulted in a man spending nearly 24 years […]
More than two years after a federal jury awarded Darryl Howard $6 million for spending nearly 24 years incarcerated after a faulty police investigation, Howard was finally able to cash a settlement check from the city. The city of Durham sent a $7.75 million check to Howard earlier this month, his attorney Bradley Bannon confirmed […]
Durham police say they’re looking for those involved in a drive-by shooting Saturday evening that left a man dead and his companion on the run. The man was riding in a white sedan near the intersection of Dearborn Drive and Old Oxford Road at about 5 p.m. when another vehicle pulled up beside him. Someone […]
Durham police are investigating after a man was found shot to death Tuesday night in a parking lot on Guess Road. Officers responded shortly after 8:30 p.m. to a shooting in the 1500 block of Guess Road and found the man outside a local business. His name has not been released. As of May 18, […]
City leaders are considering raising property taxes this summer to increase employee wages. “It was just the right thing to do,” City Manager Wanda Page said Monday night when she presented her draft budget to the City Council. “Sometimes doing the right thing isn’t easy, but it is always right.” The spending she proposed totals […]
May 19—A first-term Republican representative from Durham who missed 67% of the days that the full Maine Legislature convened during the second session is asking voters to reward him with a second term. Rep. Joseph Galletta, R-Durham, missed more legislative days than any other member of the House of Representatives. According to an analysis by […]
Two fatal shootings within minutes of each other in Durham on Saturday morning may be related, and a suspect was arrested, police said. A woman suffering from a gunshot wound was found in a vehicle at this Durham, N.C., intersection on Saturday morning, May 11, 2024, and was pronounced dead at a hospital, police said. […]
The Durham Police Department is investigating two shootings Tuesday night that left a child and a man dead. All told five people were shot, with two of the remaining three people suffering life-threatening injuries, police said in a news release. The first incident happened just before 10 p.m. in the area of West Umstead and […]
Police are investigating after a man died in a shooting early on Sunday near downtown Durham. Officers responded to “a report of a gunshot wound” in the parking lot at West Morgan and Watts streets just after 2 a.m., and found a man suffering from a gunshot wound, the Durham Police Department said in a […]
Visitors to Durham’s Museum of Life and Science will be able to glimpse the Triangle’s rarest puppies starting in late May. Sunday, a female red wolf gave birth to a litter of seven pups — four males and three females. All seven are in good health, museum officials said in a Wednesday press release. Captive […]
Durham police say a 16-year-old boy who was shot Thursday afternoon on Truman Street died at the hospital. It was one of at least three, and possibly four, shooting incidents on Thursday. Officers responded around 4 pm to the shooting in the 1200 block of Truman Street and found the boy who had been shot, […]
I’m Brian Gordon, tech reporter for The News & Observer, and this is Open Source, a weekly newsletter on business, labor and technology in North Carolina. The North Carolina Triangle, in a sense, doesn’t exist as a whole. It was once, but then in 2003, Raleigh and Cary split into a single metropolitan statistical area, […]