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DURHAM, N.C. — A 20-year-old sophomore communications major at North Carolina Central University, Lewis James Little sat in the Durham County jail for a month last year after he did what he says he thought was the right thing. He and several friends had been visiting the home of a childhood friend on Melbourne Street in east Durham on the night of June 21, 2013, when, he says, they discovered 25-year-old Michael Lee dead in the middle of the road. "I called the police – when none of the other guys were even thinking about it – trying to do...

DURHAM - An autopsy determined that Denita Monique Smith, a prominent N.C. Central University graduate student whose body was found outside her apartment Thursday, was shot to death. Police are looking to question a woman who they say left Campus Crossings apartments in a burgundy Ford Explorer shortly after the shooting. But police are saying little else about the investigation into Smith's death, which shocked the NCCU campus and Smith's family and friends. Sgt. Jack Cates of the Durham Police Department wouldn't say how many times or where Smith, 25, had been shot. He said police have no suspects and...

By Ray Gronberg : The Herald-Sun gronberg@heraldsun.com May 9, 2006 : 10:53 pm ET DURHAM -- A March 14 Duke Police Department report that downplayed gang-rape allegations against the school's lacrosse team stemmed from what a Duke officer overheard while listening to a Durham Police Department sergeant's cell phone conversation, City Manager Patrick Baker said Tuesday. The Duke officer, Christopher Day, never actually spoke to the sergeant or conducted any follow-up inquiry before telling his superiors that the woman at the center of the case had changed her story several times, and that her allegations were unlikely to produce serious...

We are with you. We are outraged with you. We will fight back for you..... .Rest assured, we will not rest until justice is done, especially the strong brothers. (snip) Single mothers sometimes bring their kids to class, setting them up with juice and crayons in the back of Mass Comm. (snip) The most mundane beginnings explain her life. The youngest of three children, she grew up in Durham. Her father drove trucks and worked a second job cleaning cars on an auto lot. Her 1996 graduation photo from Hillside High School shows a girl with shoulder-length braids and a...

By WILLIAM YARDLEY Published: May 1, 2006 DURHAM, N.C., April 30 — North Carolina Central University does not have a lacrosse team. Students often cannot check out books from the main library, which is being renovated after a mold infestation. The business school is fighting to regain accreditation. Sixty percent of the students receive need-based financial aid. Eighty-one percent are black. Only 28 percent graduate after four years. Just three miles from Duke University and its master-planned marriage of Gothic elegance and academic excellence, North Carolina Central, a rambling red-brick, historically black institution, is across the tracks, across the highway,...

Based on statements made by Michael B. Nifong, the Durham County district attorney, the lawyers are bracing for him to bring a case to a grand jury that meets on Monday. That move, they said, would inevitably produce an indictment of a player on sexual assault charges, and perhaps an indictment of other players on charges of aiding and abetting the assault. An arrest warrant would be issued for any players who are indicted. After Monday, the grand jury here is not scheduled to meet again for two weeks.

“They say she was a dancer, but worked for an escort service,” the representative said. “Dancers work for entertainment services and there’s a difference. Why was she there without a bouncer? She went there with no one. She didn’t deserve it, but she was a fool,” the representative continued to say.