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Wake Forest, NC (April 25, 2025) – A traffic accident at the intersection of Durham Rd and New Light Rd resulted in injuries, prompting a rapid emergency response in northern Wake County.

Crews arrived at the scene shortly after 4:10 p.m. following reports of a crash that disrupted traffic in the area. First responders, including paramedics, assessed and treated individuals hurt in the crash. The specific circumstances leading up to the incident have not yet been released, but the crash caused notable delays as responders worked to assist victims and clear the roadway.

The intersection, which serves as a key route for commuters and recreational visitors near Falls Lake, was temporarily restricted while Wake Forest Fire and Rescue personnel managed the aftermath. Medics and fire crews worked to assist those suffering from injuries after the collision.

Officials have stated that the crash remains under investigation as they continue to examine evidence and speak with those involved. No further details on the number of vehicles or the extent of injuries were immediately available.

Our thoughts are with those impacted by this incident, and we hope for a swift recovery for all affected.

Intersection Safety Concerns in North Carolina

Incidents like this auto crash on Durham Rd highlight growing concerns around intersection safety across North Carolina, especially in suburban and semi-rural areas like Wake Forest. Intersections can be particularly hazardous due to the combination of cross-traffic, changing speed zones, and inconsistent driver behavior.

Durham Rd and New Light Rd, while not classified as a major highway interchange, still carries a steady flow of vehicles connecting residential neighborhoods with more densely populated zones. The blend of local and through traffic increases the risk of collisions, particularly during afternoon rush hours when visibility and driver attentiveness can be compromised.

Statewide, the North Carolina Department of Transportation continues to report a troubling frequency of injury-related accidents in such settings. Despite advancements in traffic management systems, many drivers underestimate the risks of seemingly familiar routes. Delays in reacting to traffic signals, failure to yield, and distractions behind the wheel often lead to serious outcomes, even in otherwise low-speed environments.

In the aftermath of such incidents, injured individuals may face unexpected challenges with recovery, from medical expenses to dealing with insurance and property damage. Ensuring that victims have access to timely support and clear information about their rights can be critical in the days following a crash.

For more information or to receive help after an accident, contact Local Accident Reports.

In the heart of Durham’s historic Hayti District, an old house on Massey Avenue pays quiet tribute to blues legend Blind Boy Fuller.

Born Fulton Allen in Wadesboro, Fuller taught himself to play guitar and sing traditional country rag tunes on sidewalks and in the shadow of tobacco factories and warehouses. His breakthrough came in 1935, when he signed with the American Recording Co. and recorded songs like “Rag, Mama Rag” and “I Want Some of Your Pie.”

Today, his legacy as “Durham’s Bluesman” contributes to the deep history of the Hayti neighborhood where Black families and businesses thrived, and to the deep-rooted tradition of Black musicians in North Carolina, artists whose influence is found in the work of Grammy-winning folk musician and banjoist Rhiannon Giddens.

For the first time this weekend, April 25-27, a new music festival is coming to downtown Durham. The Biscuits and Banjos Festival was curated and will feature Giddens and dozens of other North Carolina blues, jazz, folk and old-time musicians.

The three-day festival is a “celebration and exploration of Black music, art and culture” in Giddens’ home state and will include performances, workshops and readings from authors, chefs and visual artists. The lineup includes Taj Mahal, Christian McBride and the NCCU Jazz Ensemble, Leyla McCalla, Infinity Song, Charly Lowry, Don Flemons and Rissi Palmer.

The weekend is also a celebration of the first Black Banjo Gathering that took place 20 years ago in Boone, and there will also be a reunion of Giddens’ Grammy-winning string band, the Carolina Chocolate Drops, who will be performing for the first time in over a decade.

“I’m really excited to bring the kind of music that I am most excited about: music that really doesn’t exist without collaboration, conversation, community, really, for me, the important pieces about what music is and what it does for a community, what it does for people and what it does for humanity,” Giddens said in a video abut the event.

Giddens said she chose Durham for the festival because of her “personal connection to the city and its diverse reach and thriving contemporary culture, as well as its historical Black heritage.”

Country music has always been part of Black American culture and recently, with the release of Beyoncé’s “Cowboy Carter” album, more people have learned about the genre’s roots.

Giddens is featured on the hit song “Texas Hold ‘Em” playing banjo, an instrument created by enslaved Africans in the Caribbean. Giddens often talks about the banjo’s West African roots and last week released a new album with former band mate Justin Robinson titled “What Did the Blackbird Say to the Crow.” The work was recorded at the Mill Prong House and Plantation in Red Springs.

In an interview, Palmer, who lives near downtown Durham, is excited to reconnect with friends and colleagues at the festival and to catch some favorite artists live. She broke out in 2007 with the hit “Country Girl” and has helped pave the way for greater visibility of Black women in country music.

“There are so many people that are on this bill. Whether they’re doing panels or they’re performing, these are people that I consider to be friends. So many people I love are a part of this,” Palmer said.

Her radio station, Color Me Country, on Apple Music Country, tells Black, Indigenous and Latinx stories of country music that don’t always make the main airwaves.

The show was “therapeutic” when she started it five years ago, “because of my prior experience in country and just thinking that a lot of things that I took personally ... they were happening to everybody else,” she said. “It made me sad, but it also made me really examine my own path and my own feelings about country music and the industry, because they’re two very different things.”

During the festival, Palmer will perform at The Armory at 5 p.m. Friday. The performance will feature all artists from the state.

“Durham is a historical Black city, and it’s one of the few Black Wall Streets that existed in this country,” Palmer said. “We have such a rich history. I love that this festival is shining a light on Durham, because Durham deserves that.”

Palmer said she hopes people attending the festival “feel the love and appreciation and celebration that this is.”

“There’s so much homegrown, incredible talent that we have from North Carolina,” Palmer said. “Rhiannon took a really, painstaking time to hand-pick and hand-select artists from North Carolina. … I hope people recognize and take pride in the fact that there is so much that is moving the needle right here in your backyard.”

The festival will be spread across the Durham Performing Arts Center, the Armory, the Carolina Theatre and American Underground. Attendees will have a chance to explore Durham and its historic sites, including Blind Boy Fuller’s house, the areas once known as Black Wall Street and downtown.

Tickets for the indoor events are sold out, but there are free events like the Friday Night Frolic Square and Line Dance at 8 p.m. Friday, as well as community art projects. A portion of ticket and merchandise sales will go to Hurricane Helene relief efforts in Western North Carolina.

Seven restaurants throughout the weekend will be honoring the festival in a “Biscuit Trail,” including Zweli’s Ekhaya, Bull City Burger, 21C and Parts & Labor Restaurant.

Additionally, Giddens will be live streaming her main set Saturday at 6 p.m. from DPAC. Tickets for the livestream are available for $19.

Find a full schedule of events and ticket information at biscuitsandbanjos.com.

This story was originally published April 23, 2025 at 11:09 AM.

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Kristen Johnson is a local government reporter covering Cary and Wake County for The News & Observer. She previously covered southeastern North Carolina for The Fayetteville Observer and spent time covering politics in Washington, D.C. She is an alumna of UNC at Charlotte and American University.

A popular mall in Durham continues to fill with tenants, as two new retailers are expected to open storefronts there this year.

Lego, the Danish toy company known for its colorful building bricks, is expanding in the Triangle with a store at The Streets at Southpoint. The other retailer, the California apparel brand PacSun, will also open a location at the Durham mall.

With these two brands, Southpoint’s growth continues. Late last year, the mall announced that five retailers — Vuori, Gorjana, Aritzia, Alo Yoga and Dick’s House of Sport — were marking their Triangle debut with a location at the Durham shopping center.

The difference here is that PacSun and Lego already have a presence in the area.

Here’s what to know about the new stores.

Lego, which is moving into the former Buckle space, is anticipating a Friday, May 23 opening, a public relations spokesperson for the brand told The News & Observer in an email.

The 4,324-square-foot store will feature amenities such as a Pick & Build Wall and demonstration table.

This will be the second Lego location in the Triangle, following the store at Raleigh’s Crabtree Valley Mall. The Triangle also has multiple Bricks and Minifigs stores, which buy and sell new and used Lego items but are a franchises of a different company, not The Lego Group.

PacSun is expected to open in early summer, but an official opening date has not yet been set. The store will be on the upper level Macy’s wing and spans 4,085 square feet.

Raleigh has two Pacsun locations — at Crabtree and Triangle Town Center. There’s also a PacSun store at Carolina Premium Outlets in Smithfield.

We know of several retailers that have yet to open at Southpoint. All of these are “first market tenants” — brands’ first brick-and-mortars in the Triangle — which The Streets at Southpoint tries to attract, Steve Bolger, the vice president of leasing at mall owner and manager Brookfield Properties, previously told The News & Observer.

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DURHAM, N.C. - North Carolina finished the Duke Invitational with four total wins and three on Saturday, April 12.

Kate Joyce (51.58m) has won back-to-back meets in the women's javelin. Joyce took the lead on her first throw of the competition and never lost it.

Freshman Nick Pennington (4.80m) notched his second win of the season as he won the Men's Pole Vault B.

Carolina fared very well in the women's 400m, as they won every heat. Delea Martins (53.01) moved into seventh all-time with her second-place finish. Gwyneth Goldowski (55.47) also ran a personal best while Lea Spindell (55.72) made her outdoor debut in the event.

The men's 800m had a great showing. Carolina finished second, third, and fourth in the first heat and held on through eleven more heats, which had 96 competitors.

The women's 4x400m (3:35.85) team, consisting of Gwyneth Goldowski, Delea Martins, Alyssa Hernandez, and Makayla Paige, beat Duke at their home stadium to take the meet record from the Blue Devils by three seconds.

Results

Men's Javelin

9. Bryce Kazmaier 55.96m 183-7

Women's Javelin

1. Kate Joyce, 51.58m 169-3

9. Julia Moraitis 44.84m 147-1, SB

Women's Pole Vault B

3. Maddy Kelley, 3.85m 12-7½

Men's Pole Vault B

1. Nick Pennington, 4.80m (15-9)

Women' 400m

2. Delea Martins, 53.01 [Seventh All-Time]

16. Gwyneth Goldowski North Carolina, 55.47 PR

20. Lea Spindell North Carolina 55.72

46. Maameyaa Nyinah, 57.62

Men's 400m

6. Killian Fahy, 47.21

18. Nick Steed, 48.00

Women's 800m

72. Cassidy Scott, 2:17.76

40. Addison Pignetti, 2:13.42

Men's 800m

2. Joe Sapone, 1:49.88

3. Aiden Neal, 1:49.91

4. Henry Strand, 1:50.66

Women's Triple Jump

17. Tiffany Bautista, 11.61m (38-1¼)

Women's 400m Hurdles

40. Aaliyah Berry, 1:06.47

Men's 400m Hurdles

30. Kathir Balakrishnan, 58.01

Women's Pole Vault A

11. Megan Kelleghan, 3.87m (12-8¼), PR

12. Peyton Berryman, 3.72m 12-2½, SB

Men's Pole Vault A

T-7 Paul Signorelli, 4.82m 15-9¾

Women's 200m

54. Sydney Campbell, 25.32

Men's 4x400m Relay

2. Trevor Paschall, Donovan Calhoun, Nick Steed, Killian Fahy ,3:07.47

Women's 4x400m Relay

1. Gwyneth Goldowski, Delea Martins, Alyssa Hernandez, Makayla Paige, 3:35.85 [meet record] [ninth all-time]

3. Jocelyn Johnson, Ella Auderset, Maameyaa Nyinah, Lea Spindell, 3:39.94

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A new spectacular restaurant view just dropped in downtown Durham.

The Lenny, the latest restaurant from Charlie and Joel Ibarra, just opened 11 floors up in the Durham skyline. The new restaurant takes over the rooftop of the 555 Mangum building, overlooking the Durham Bulls Athletic Park just beyond the right field fence.

Yes, you can watch baseball while you sip Prosecco. You might even be looking down on the stadium’s weekend game fireworks shows.

This is the first Durham restaurant for the Ibarra brothers, best known for their restaurants Jose & Sons and The Cortez, which recently closed on Glenwood Avenue in Raleigh. (That space is being remade into a new restaurant — Cuya.)

The Lenny will have elements of Mexican cuisine and flavors, but offers a broader view, serving what it calls a “Brasserie-style” menu, calling on some French influence.

Mostly it means The Lenny’s menu aims to take diners in a lot of different directions.

There are snacks like charcuterie boards, a raw bar featuring the Triangle’s newest shellfish tower, fried gruyere croquettes and a version of patatas bravas.

Small plates include scallop carpaccio, gambas al ajillo with “garlic foam,” Mediterranean-style flatbreads and seared octopus.

Large plates include a variety of grilled steaks, chicken ballontine and a lamb chop ratatouille.

On the drinks side, The Lenny has a “whipped” version of the espresso martini, a chili-infused version of the gin classic The Last Word and a bold wine list.

Instead of a happy hour, which is outlawed in North Carolina, The Lenny has a “sunset hour” with snack specials as the sun goes down.

The Lenny will be open daily from 11 a.m. to 11 p.m., with a weekend brunch from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.

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