When Bernie Madoff of Ponzi scheme fame was sent to prison for life in 2009, he drew an assignment to the Butner Federal Correctional Complex about 45 minutes northeast of Durham, NC. At the time, the press called Butner the “crown
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Healthcare & Life Sciences Private Equity Deal Tracker: Precision BioSciences Secures $25.6 Million in Financing
Precision BioSciences has announced it has secured $25.6 million in series A financing.
Precision BioSciences is a Durham, N.C.-based genome editing company. Its ARCUS genome editing technology is designed to produce nucleases that can insert, remove and modify DNA in…
Attorney’s Efforts Free Innocent Man; State Bar Files Ethics Charges Over Water Bottle
The North Carolina State Bar's war on criminal defense counsel continues with these charges filed against the Executive Director and legal counsel to the North Carolina Center for Actual Innocence in Durham.The allegations involve efforts to establish the innocence of…
How dogs stole our hearts | Science/AAAS | News
It s an incredible finding that suggests that dogs have hijacked the human bonding system, says Brian Hare, an expert on canine cognition at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina, who was not involved in the work. Hare says the…
Parking Dispute? Three Muslim University Students Killed in North Carolina
Here is some extremely sad news from North Carolina. Three university students were shot and killed in a residential complex of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a suspect has been arrested over the incident. Chapel Hill police…
2010 Salmonella Enteriditis Outbreak Likely Linked to Meringue
By Bill Marler
On Friday April 23, 2010 Durham County Health Department (DCHD) Environmental Health was notified that employees of a local business were sick with a suspected foodborne illness. On April 20 the employees had eaten food prepared at Bullock’s Bar-B-Que (“Bullock’s”)…
Duke University’s the Nasher Art Museum Receives Generous Donation from Alumnus
Last week, Nasher Art Museum, the museum of my alma mater, Duke University, received a generous $1 million donation from Dallas entrepreneur and collector, Derek Wilson (Duke, Trinity College ’86; Fuqua School of Business ’90) and his wife Christen,…
Food law symposium notice and call for articles/speakers
Duke Environmental Law and Policy Forum has issued a call for articles and presenters for a symposium on the national food system, which will be at Duke Law school on Friday, January 23, 2015. The working title is "Carrots and Sticks: Moving
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News & Advocacy: Charlotte Civil Rights Clinic Bans the Box
After four and a half years of advocacy, students in the Civil Rights Clinic at Charlotte School of Law were victorious in their efforts to “Ban the Box.” Recognizing that even qualified clients were being dismissed because of their criminal…
Durham Friends Meetinghouse Linked to Hepatitis A Risk
By Bill Marler
Food Safety News reports, Health officials in Maine have traced a case of Hepatitis A back to a community dinner in the town of Durham. Attendees who ate at the Durham Friends Meetinghouse over the weekend of Sept. 28 have…