Demario James Atwater received a life prison sentence in Federal District Court in Winston-Salem Thursday for the killing of former Student Body President Eve Carson ’08, who was shot to death two months before she was to graduate in… read more
Teach For America ranked UNC sixth among large schools on its 2010 list of colleges and universities contributing the most graduating seniors to its ranks. Carolina contributed 55 graduates to the teaching corps. The University of Texas at… read more
The Morehead-Cain Foundation is endowing a new merit scholarship at Carolina in honor of Eve Carson ’08. The Chapel Hill-based foundation has given $400,000 to UNC to establish the Eve Marie Carson Carolina Way Scholarship, which will cover… read more
Demario James Atwater appears to be headed for a life sentence without the possibility of parole in the kidnapping and shooting death of Eve Carson ’08. Atwater pleaded guilty Monday to state charges of kidnapping and murder, according to media… read more
Demario James Atwater pleaded guilty to carjacking, kidnapping and weapons charges in federal court Monday, according to The News & Observer of Raleigh. The plea arrangement leaves Atwater, 23, facing life in prison without the… read more
Ron Bilbao was born and raised in Miami to immigrant parents from Venezuela and Colombia. Now a senior at Carolina, he is the first person in his family to head down the path to college graduation. “My father had to actually drop out of college… read more
Would you pledge to stay awake and on your feet for 24 hours to help a sick child in North Carolina? Carolina students have answered that question with a resounding “yes,” with 1,600 of them taking a 24-hour stand for the kids at the 12th annual UNC… read more
A Superior Court judge in Randolph County has ruled that the videotape from a police car’s dashboard camera capturing the last moments of a UNC student’s life will remain sealed. Judge Bradford Long concluded his decision Friday by writing that… read more
A Carolina freshman from Rhode Island died Wednesday at UNC Hospitals from complications of the H1N1 virus. Lillian Chason had been in critical condition, on life support, since about a week before Thanksgiving, according to Facebook posts by her… read more
The fatal shooting of Courtland Smith by an Archdale police officer was “legally justified and lawful,” Randolph County District Attorney Garland Yates said Friday. Yates said in a news release that Smith, a UNC junior who was president of Delta… read more