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Durham officer fired after involvement in deadly crash
Durham police officer Joseph King has been fired after the authorities said he ran a red light in a fatal crash in Harnett County in October.
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Police: Apex man arrested, told troopers he hit a deer after deadly hit-and-run on Durham Freeway
A man is in custody more than a week after a car hit and killed a man changing his tire on the side of the Durham Freeway. Durham police arrested 48-year-old Julien Joseph on Tuesday in the death of 37-year-old Rakesh Babu Poojari. Joseph is charged with felony hit-and-run. Police...
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Man shot in east Durham taken to hospital with serious injuries
A man shot in Durham Tuesday night was taken to the hospital with serious injuries, according to police. Around 11 p.m., police officers were called to the intersection of Holloway Street and Alma Street in east Durham, where they found the man. Durham police said the shooting is under investigation...
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‘We are trapped’: Durham residents plead for help with ongoing crime
Durham homeowners in one neighborhood are fed up with what they say is constant criminal activity. One man tells WRAL he called 911 seventeen times in one week. Another says he's had thousands of dollars of equipment for work stolen. They live on Laurel Avenue, which is east of downtown.
Raleigh News & Observer
Doo-wop legend who sang ‘Money Honey,' other R&B hits, to get NC marker
Clyde McPhatter, a falsetto-voiced pioneer of early rock-and-roll, who launched his highly influential but short career in the churches of Durham, will soon grace an North Carolina historic marker on the streets where he first learned to sing. Born in 1932, McPhatter grew up in a Baptist family in Durham’s Hayti neighborhood, where he sang solos in the choir at his preacher father’s church, Mount Cavalry Baptist, but he soon moved to New York, formed a gospel group based in Harlem — The Mount Lebanon Singers. Like many crooners of his era, McPhatter followed the powerful draw of secular music, and he lent his voice to the early 1950s blend of rhythm and blues. This combination of gospel soulfulness and free-spirited, sexually charged energy led the country into a new rock and roll era. A young Ernie Barnes would recall sneaking into the segregated Durham Armory to get a glimpse of McPhatter with his doo-wop Dominoes, describing the scene he saw on the dance floor, so bold for the era it seemed sinful, but not so audacious he didn’t move along. “What I observed was the no inhibition, no self-consciousness or rigidity, just fluid movement while the music punctuated every
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The North Carolina Fried Chicken Counter That Kept Its Recipe While Every Food Trend Came and Went
Some of the best meals in North Carolina hide inside buildings you would drive past a hundred times without a second look. I almost did, until a line of hungry people wrapped around an old brick corner caught my eye at lunchtime. Inside, the smell of hot, crispy chicken and...
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Raleigh News & Observer
Durham man sentenced in Cary high school student's accidental shooting death
Nearly three years after a blood-soaked John Carvajal-Campos declared to a hospital police officer he’d accidentally shot a Cary High School student, the now-25-year-old will spend time in prison after pleading guilty to killing the teen. Carvajal-Campos was sentenced to eight months in prison Wednesday by Judge Josephine Kerr Davis after pleading to involuntary manslaughter, court records show. He must then complete a minimum of eight months and a maximum of two years of supervised probation, according to the sentencing sheet. Carvajal-Campos was almost immediately charged with involuntary manslaughter Nov. 26, 2023, hours after he accidentally shot 17-year-old Ricardo Meza-Ramirez in a Durham County parking lot across the street from Carvajal-Campos’ home, according to court documents. Carvajal-Campos took Meza-Ramirez to Duke University Hospital’s emergency room just before 2 a.m. that morning, search warrants state. A hospital police officer told investigators Carvajal-Campos said, “I shot! I shot him by accident. The gun is in the trunk!” Police photographs show the scene at the hospital, where Carvajal-Campos parked his car outside the ER where he brought Meza-Ramirez for treatment. Investigators documented the blood smeared along the passenger side of the sedan and across the top of the trunk, where officers would find