With Halloween mere weeks away, students are gearing up for another big celebration of one of the great Chapel Hill traditions. But this year, downtown Franklin Street will look different from years past if changes made by town officials and police… read more
Mohammed Taheri-Azar ’05 has been sentenced to between 26 and 33 years in prison for driving an SUV into a crowd of people at the Pit in March 2006. He pleaded guilty to nine counts of attempted first-degree murder in the incident in which nine… read more
Mohammed Taheri-Azar ’05 has pleaded guilty to nine counts of attempted first-degree murder in the incident in which he drove an SUV into a crowd of people at the Pit in March 2006. He faces up to 33 years in prison, according to a report in The… read more
On the morning of March 5, the University’s campuswide alert system, developed last year in the wake of the shootings at Virginia Tech, was used for the first time to notify people on campus that a young woman had been found shot to death at about 5… read more
A few months ago, Mohammed Taheri-Azar issued a venom-filled tirade in an Orange County courtroom, shouting obscenities and calling his court-appointed lawyer a moron. Now, the man accused of striking nine people on the UNC campus with an SUV… read more
While UNC’s housing department has been working on acquiring emergency response technology that could be used to broadcast messages to students campuswide in the event of an emergency, the tragedy at Virginia Tech has vaulted the concept to the… read more
An alumnus who drove through the heart of Carolina’s campus with a rented SUV in March, hitting nine people, is likely to plead not guilty, his court-appointed defender said after a Sept. 19 hearing. Since his first appearance in Orange County… read more
A campus contract worker died at midday on Aug. 9 while working in Kenan Stadium, according to UNC police. Leland S. Williams, 31, of Burlington and his co-workers of Kemco of Burlington Inc. were replacing light fixtures and bulbs on banks of… read more
With his ankles in shackles, Mohammed Taheri-Azar ’05 shuffled from a squad car into a back door of the Orange County Courthouse in Hillsborough on Wednesday. In those few seconds, two television reporters asked the questions of the day:… read more
The 2005 UNC graduate accused of driving a Jeep SUV through an area near the Pit just before noon on March 3, striking nine people, has sent a letter to The News & Observer of Raleigh saying that he was prepared to spend the rest of his life in… read more