Jane Porter

1 week ago | indyweek.com | Jane Porter

At sunset this evening, the trunks and limbs of 88 trees along each side of Fayetteville Street will be lit up with hundreds of tiny lights, from Memorial Auditorium down to the State Capitol. The initiative, sponsored by the Downtown Raleigh Alliance (DRA) and Duke Energy, is designed to enhance the aesthetic appeal and vibrancy of what local leaders would like to be commonly known as “North Carolina’s Main Street.”  But the lights aren’t the only changes that are coming.

2 weeks ago | indyweek.com | Jane Porter

A Wake County woman is asking the local district court not to use evidence and testimony from a former Raleigh police officer against her on charges of driving while impaired, misdemeanor child abuse, and failing to stop at a red light. Dominique Jeffreys was arrested and charged on September 13, 2024. The arresting officer, Kyle Epps, was fired from the department in April following an internal investigation, the details of which were not released.

2 weeks ago | indyweek.com | Jane Porter

The early summer heat didn’t dissuade hundreds of Morrisville residents from attending the town’s Pride in the Park event Friday. Families with children spread out on picnic blankets on the lawn, neighbors milled together with popsicles and ice cream, played drag bingo, and stopped to check out vendors selling everything from jewelry to saris to henna tattoos.

3 weeks ago | indyweek.com | Jane Porter

Neetzan Zimmerman and Yulia Shamis willopen The Newsagent’s, a cultural hub that’s part bookshop, coffee shop, and event space in Raleigh.

4 weeks ago | indyweek.com | Jane Porter

Wake County District Attorney Lorrin Freeman was shaking as she told Henrietta Mason that the state trooper who chased her son, Tyrone Mason, before Mason fatally crashed his vehicle on Capital Boulevard last October, and then conspired with his supervisor to lie about it, wouldn’t face criminal charges.