With Black History Month in sight, the Black Student Association is looking to put on a unique event for students all across campus.   ` The Sneaker Ball, a dance in which the entrance fee is a pair of sneakers, marks the first event of its kind hosted by BSA, the Black Graduate Student Association and the Chancellor's Student Advisory Board. For the event, BSA, BGSA and CSAB will partner with...

A larceny involving the use of counterfeit currency occurred at the Gap Factory Store in the Tanger Shoppes on the Parkway shopping complex in Blowing Rock, and is one of multiple similar cases in the region, said Thomas Gunnells, the responding officer to the call.  Shortly after 2 p.m. on Jan. 14, two unidentified black males entered the Gap Factory Store and attempted to return Gap retail merchandise...