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Board has seen turnover in manager position. The manager oversees the county’s nearly $1 billion budget and roughly 2,200 employees. Hager is the third manager under the current Board of ...
Durham County’s top-ranking official, County Manager Kimberly Sowell, has been on leave for over two weeks, though it’s unclear why. “The board is not going to be making any comments on that ...
The manager oversees the county’s nearly $1 billion budget and roughly 2,200 employees. Hager is the third manager under the current Board of Commissioners. Wendell Davis: Contract not renewed ...
Michael Byron Nifong (born September 14, 1950) is a disbarred American prosecutor who formerly served as the Durham County District Attorney.He was removed from this position, disbarred, and jailed following court findings concerning his conduct in the Duke lacrosse case, primarily his conspiring with the DNA lab director to withhold exculpatory DNA evidence that could have acquitted the ...
Nifong reportedly told his campaign manager that the case had "provided him with 'millions' of dollars in free advertising". [167] On January 15, 2008, the city of Durham filed a motion to remove itself as a defendant, arguing it had no responsibility for Nifong's actions. On the same day, Nifong filed for bankruptcy. [168]
On September 4, 2014, a federal appeals court overturned two of 10 wire fraud counts against Durham and ordered a new sentencing hearing, saying prosecutors failed to enter some key evidence into the trial record. [11] On June 26, 2015, Durham had his 50-year sentence reinstated.
Kimberly Sowell is the county’s highest paid employee.
The city of Durham fired its solid waste director after learning he misrepresented his work history, City Manager Wanda Page said in a statement Tuesday evening.