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
About 350 masqueraders — from angels and devils to Jon and Kate and Cruella de Vil and Dalmatians — danced away the night before Halloween at The Carolina Inn to raise $12,000 for the Eve Marie Carson Scholarship Fund. The fund is named for… read more
An autopsy report on Courtland Smith lists the cause of death as multiple gunshot wounds and sheds new light on the events that occurred on the August morning that Smith was shot by an Archdale police officer. Smith was president of Delta Kappa… read more
Tyler Hansbrough ’09, ACC basketball’s all-time leading scorer, College World Series hits leader Dustin Ackley and Yael Averbuch ’09, a national player and scholar-athlete of the year in women’s soccer, are the recipients of the 2009 Patterson… read more