Tuesday, August 26, 2014

Women's Equality Day Activities Planned Across North Carolina


Women's Equality Day Activities Planned Across North Carolina


RALEIGH, N.C. - Today marks the 94th anniversary of the signing of the 19th Amendment, which granted women the right to vote. Events are planned in cities across the state, including Charlotte and Raleigh, to commemorate the day. Women's groups are also ...


Nail polish may prevent date rape


RALEIGH, N.C. -- Undergraduates at North Carolina State University are being credited with creating a new kind of nail polish. The polish doubles as a way to prevent sexual assault, according to the Triangle Business Journal, The nail polish changes color ...


Innovate Raleigh brings thinkers downtown in September


The innovation summit that led to HQ Raleigh and RDU’s direct flight to San Francisco returns to downtown Raleigh. For the third year in a row, Innovate Raleigh is hosting a summit. This year, the event, which brings community thinkers together, will be ...


Battle over controversial home in Raleigh's Oakwood neighborhood continues


The battle over a modern home built in Raleigh's Historic Oakwood neighborhood will continue Tuesday morning. A Wake County Superior Court judge is hearing arguments for and against the house as well as how the city goes about approving building plans.


BWW Reviews: Raleigh Little Theatre's HAIRSPRAY


Based on the 1988 John Waters film of the same name, the story of Hairspray takes place in Baltimore, Maryland in the year 1962, where we meet plump teenager Tracy Turnblad, whose lifelong dream is to dance on The Corny Collins Show, a local TV dance ...


Raleigh Charter volleyball sweeps growing East Wake Academy team


MORRISVILLE — In just its second match of the year, Raleigh Charter is already focused on making it back to the NCHSAA 1A volleyball title match, where the Phoenix have finished as state runner-up the past two years. “There are girls on this team where ...


Fifth teen pleads guilty in Raleigh greenway murder


Raleigh, N.C. — A Raleigh teenager will spend the next 7 to 10 years of his life in prison for his role in the brutal beating death of a man on a Raleigh greenway. Tyrell Chester Charles Hamilton, 17, pleaded guilty to second-degree murder Monday in the ...


NC NAACP Press & Information Conference at Raleigh, NC Bicentennial Mall Today


The NC NAACP and the Forward Together Moral Movement Continues impacting, activism work in North Carolina. Fifty college students and youth will gather at Bicentennial Mall at 3:30 pm today before undertaking a Jericho march around the NC state capitol.


Downtown Raleigh’s arts district comes of age


These cities made USA Today’s unranked list of 10 “best city art districts around the USA,” noteworthy for catering to different tastes: If you stand on the right street corner on certain weekend nights, downtown Raleigh can seem like the vibrant ...


Relationships important as Southeast Raleigh builds


When Mike Thibodeau stepped onto the field at Southeast Raleigh on Friday night, slipped on the headset, and looked across the field, he was nervous. Friday night's game against Jack Britt – a perennial power in the eastern half of the state – was ...



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