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PEMBROKE — Students at a local college are getting an extra week for Spring Break.

PEMBROKE —Two UNC Pembroke students and two recent graduates have been admitted to professional schools at Duke University and Methodist University.

Their views on government’s role in society may be polar opposites, but libertarian elder statesman Ron Paul and progressive populist Bernie Sanders agree on one thing — the U.S. needs to wash its hands of Yemen’s bloody civil war.

WASHINGTON —Duke University has agreed to pay the government $112.5 million to resolve allegations that it violated the False Claims Act by submitting applications and progress reports that contained falsified research on federal grants to the National Institutes of Health and to the Environmental Protection Agency, the Justice Department announced (Monday). 

When Zion Williamson slipped in the opening minute of Duke's game against North Carolina, exploding his sneaker and suffering a right knee sprain, the sound reverberated through the NBA.