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
Orange County District Attorney Jim Woodall ’82 has asked for and received permission to seek the death penalty for one of the men accused in the murder of Eve Carson ’08. According to The News & Observer of Raleigh, Demario Atwater… read more
A curriculum designed to recruit, educate and retain college students from nontraditional backgrounds in the study of botany has been created at Carolina. The curriculum, BOT 2.0, offers online and in-person training that weave together four key… read more
Search warrants and the autopsy report on slain Student Body President Eve Carson ’08 indicated that she was taken from her home by her alleged assailants and was shot at least five times with two different weapons, according to published… read more
Athletes around the world dreamed of qualifying for the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing in August. For several former and current UNC athletes, that dream came true. As the U.S. Olympic Trials for track and field came to a conclusion, one last Tar… read more
Four UNC students have received the UNC Class of 1938 travel fellowships for research abroad this summer. The students were chosen from among 40 students who submitted proposals for projects outside the U.S. Selection is based on the quality of… read more
Dance parties at her house “seemed spontaneous but were always expected.” She built the largest and most diverse cabinet in the history of student government, and when warned it was too big, she pressed on. She’d eat nearly all the ice cream,… read more
“I thought I misheard or something because when a public icon like Eve, student body president – just someone everybody loves — you kind of make them invincible. You think nothing bad can happen to a person like that. And so I just didn’t… read more
After Durham police arrested the second suspect in Eve Carson’s shooting death in mid-March, they also charged him in the slaying of a Duke University graduate student in January. Lawrence Alvin Lovette, 17, surrendered shortly after 4 a.m. read more