Burlington Times

Earlier this season, as Tyler Zeller leaked out of the lane too frequently for coach Roy Williams’ taste, the North Carolina coaching staff responded with less-than-subtle instructions. “We kept yelling at him over and over, ‘Get to the boards....

ELON — A demanding pocket of three games across five nights already figured to test the legs and lungs of the Elon University men’s basketball team. Then the opener of that rapid-fire stretch became a physically draining, emotionally taxing,...

WINSTON-SALEM — If Wake Forest is to avoid a repeat this afternoon of its embarrassing loss to North Carolina State three weeks ago, it’s going to have to shoot better than it did in that game and in its most-recent contest. The Demon Deacons...

The Atlantic Coast Conference will go down to one permanent partner for each of its basketball teams and conference newcomers Pittsburgh and Syracuse will be split apart in divisional alignments for football, according to scheduling models released...

A teenager asked a question this week that deserves an answer: “What has happened to the good citizens of Alamance County?” Cassidy Caviness Thames, 15, made her query via email after learning that her grandmother, 69-year-old Vicki Pope was...

RALEIGH — If North Carolina were a country, our level of taxpayer funding for education would be near the top — but the performance of our public schools would be mediocre. These are among the findings of a new study by the John Locke...

I wanted to congratulate Leonard Pitts on his column published Jan. 29 in the Times-News. For once, he didn’t boil a topic down to black and white cause and effect. The column basically concerned gun control, or the lack of it, in the United...

GRAHAM — The basement courtroom at the Alamance County Civil Courts Building reopened on Monday after undergoing a two-month renovation. County Manager Craig Honeycutt said Thursday the basement courtroom had been neglected for years and was in...

The Park Restaurant on South Church Street plans to reopen Saturday morning after repairing damages from a fire on the roof earlier this week. “We needed a crane to get the air-conditioning unit down from the roof,” said Tiffany Liakos....

Sailing across the Atlantic to explore new worlds wasn’t easy when Columbus did it in the late 1400s, and it’s still not, especially for those working full time. But the lure of the sea and the challenge of being part of a small group of...

The book based on an Alamance County case in which a man was wrongfully convicted of rape and exonerated 11 years later through DNA evidence is the subject of a UNC-TV program airing Sunday. “Picking Cotton: Our Memoir of Injustice and...

RALEIGH — Former congressman Bob Etheridge says he's lived the American dream thanks to investments in public education and is running for North Carolina governor to keep those investments going in the 21st century. Etheridge talked in Raleigh...

RALEIGH — Republican leaders in the state House of Representatives said Friday they're reviewing a complaint by a civil liberties group about prayers in the General Assembly, but that they believe the group is out of touch with the concerns of...

Cedar Cliff United Methodist Church is holding a country breakfast from 6:30 to 10:30 a.m. today at the church at 4683 Cedar Cliff Road in Graham with ham, sausage, eggs, bacon, biscuits, gravy, fruit, homemade pastries and jelly and grits. Donations...

WILMINGTON - A federal judge in North Carolina ruled Friday that a Raleigh school administrator accused of paying a hit man to behead three witnesses in a terrorism case should be held without bond until her trial. Nevine Aly Elshiekh made her ...

GREEN COVE SPRINGS, Fla. — A man pleaded guilty Friday in the abduction and slaying of a 7-year-old Florida girl who was found in a landfill. Jarred Harrell, 26, was sentenced to life in prison. Somer Thompson, a second-grader and the daughter of...

HICKORY — The Secret Service is assisting police in a western North Carolina town as they try to get to the bottom of an outbreak of counterfeit cash. The Hickory Daily Record reports local police have collected 36 fake bills in denominations...

Vicki Pope had just put her groceries in the trunk of her car in the parking lot of Food Lion on North Church Street last week when a man attempted to rob her. It was 1:52 p.m. on Jan. 27. Pope, 69, a longtime resident of Burlington, was alarmed, but...

GRAHAM — After nearly two hours of deliberation Thursday, a jury found a Burlington man not guilty of communicating threats to a teacher at Alamance Community College in 2009. Earlier in the second day of Markise Antonio White’s trial on...