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Senior business major Grant Miller is participating in No Shave November, a national event where people avoid shaving for a month.

No Shave November getting hairy

By Maria Gontaruk | November 4

No Shave November is a cultural phenomenon that encourages men to put the razor down for one month and embrace their natural scruff. Women are also ...

Firefighters respond to Carrboro home fire

November 4

The Orange County Fire Department is responding to a fire at 109 Weather Hill Point in Carrboro. The 911 call for the house fire was received at 10:36 ...

Finding a 'plan B' for Orange County Schools

By Victoria Stilwell | November 3

When voters defeated the county’s proposed sales tax increase, they did more than save themselves a quarter for every $100 purchase. Schools, emergency ...

Writer and conservationist Bill Powers reads from his book “Twelve By Twelve” during his presentation on Wednesday night in Hanes Art Center.

Bill Powers urges UNC students to adopt green living practices

By Kaitlyn Knepp and Alex Hammer | November 3

Conservationist Bill Powers urged a crowd of about 40 to do all that they can to be sustainable in a speech Wednesday. Powers, a New York Times contributor ...

UNC-system Board of Governors to prepare final budget

By Elizabeth Johnson | November 3

The UNC-system Board of Governors is expected to make final revisions to the system’s proposed budget and tuition policy at its last meeting of the ...

Patti Thorp, wife of Chancellor Holden Thorp, speaks about UNC’s Build-a-Block fundraiser at the October employee forum meeting Wednesday.

Forum tackles employee e-mail privacy

By Christina Austin | November 3

Employees were urged to separate their personal and business correspondences and to participate more in campus projects Wednesday at a relatively quiet ...

UNC faculty skeptical of proposed tuition-funded raises

By Colleen Volz | November 3

One year removed from a state-imposed salary freeze, some faculty members have expressed mixed reactions to a salary raise proposed last week. At the ...

Roberto Camassa, a UNC professor of mathematics, speaks about the new wave tank in Chapman Hall. The tank weighs 70,000 pounds and is 120 feet long.

UNC's new wave tank will help with experiments, interdisciplinary studies

By Anna Bobrow | November 3

The new wave tank in Chapman Hall has a lot of potential. There’s the potential for new discoveries: Professors said experiments with the tank may ...

Priscilla Townsend, a freshman pursuing dental hygiene, has a three-year record contract with Bench Studios. Her first single is available on iTunes.

UNC freshman has record deal

By Kelsey Tsipis | November 3

Priscilla Townsend, a freshman pursuing dental hygiene, stopped by the Waxhaw, N.C., fair this summer to see some rescue puppies. Townsend left the fair ...

Incumbent Democrat Ellie Kinnaird from Chapel Hill won a clear victory in her race against Republican Ryan Hilliard in the N.C. Senate race.

First GOP assembly since 1898

By Elise Young | November 3

N.C. Republicans celebrated a victory 112 years in the making Tuesday night. Republican candidates won enough seats to gain the majority in the N.C. Senate, ...

Sam Tasher, Katy Lucci and Alexandra Pfadt (left to right) of College Republicans celebrate Senator Richard Burr’s win Tuesday at Top of the Hill. “Republicans really came out this year as opposed to ‘08,” said Pfadt.

Republican control could affect student funding

By Tarini Parti | November 3

With different parties in charge of the two chambers in U.S. Congress and Republicans taking the majority in the North Carolina General Assembly, President ...

Democrat David Price, who represents the 4th District of North Carolina, gives his victory speech after he learned he defeated B.J. Lawson.

David Price defeats B.J. Lawson in closely-contested election for House

By Eliza Kern | November 3

U.S. Rep. David Price, D-N.C., won re-election Tuesday night, defeating Republican challenger B.J. Lawson in a race most expected Price to handily take. ...

Incumbent Lindy Pendergrass won his eighth term as sheriff.

Pendergrass re-elected to eighth term as Orange County Sheriff

By Ethan Robertson and Lisa LeFever | November 3

Democratic incumbent Lindy Pendergrass won his eighth consecutive term as Orange County Sheriff after defeating Republican Buddy Parker in Tuesday’s ...

Voter turnout higher than 2006 average

By Isabella Cochrane | November 3

Turnout for this year’s state elections was higher than the average for midterm elections, but it was still significantly lower than the presidential ...

Planning Board cites need for stricter shelter guidelines

By Christina Taylor | November 3

The Chapel Hill Planning Board expressed concerns regarding the specificity of guidelines for shelter development at Tuesday night’s meeting. Planning ...

Senator Richard Burr announced his opponent Democrat Elaine Marshall had conceded as he gave his victory speech at the Milton Rhodes Art Center in Winston-Salem on Tuesday night.

Burr re-elected in US Senate race

By Seth Cline | November 3

WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. — Incumbent U.S. Sen. Richard Burr’s viewing party didn’t last long — less than two hours after the polls closed, Burr was ...

Former UNC professor to receive new trial

By Victoria Cook | November 2

A defective indictment has forced prosecutors to start from scratch in the case against a former UNC School of Medicine professor who police say is responsible ...

Earl McKee, Democratic candidate for the Orange County Board of COmmissioners, stands with his wife, Sandra, Tuesday evening before cutting into a cake to celebrate his victory.

McKee wins Orange County commissioners seat

By Jo Nixon , Cassie McLean and Nora Chan | November 2

Tuesday night Earl McKee claimed his seat on the Board of Orange County Commissioners. The Democratic candidate, McKee won 31,804 votes, almost 72 percent ...

More than 20 town workers and union members participated in a silent protest at an Oct. 19 public hearing to support Bigelow and Clark.

Chapel Hill solid waste employees fired after investigations

By Sarah Glen | November 2

After being placed on paid administrative leave more than a month ago, two Chapel Hill solid waste employees have lost their jobs. Kerry Bigelow and ...

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Thorp, Kleinschmidt lead 'Thriller' to promote Eve Ball

By Katherine Proctor | November 1

Chancellor Holden Thorp, Chapel Hill Mayor Mark Kleinschmidt and UNC Student Body President Hogan Medlin joined students at noon to dance portions of ...