• Durham, NC was named the 4th most affordable city in America on NBC's TODAY Show.
• Anna Frost, director of secondary English and language arts and literacy for Durham Public Schools, was honored by a national book publisher with the National Scholastic Heroes Award from Scholastic Inc. for her work.
• Duke Medicine received a $10.2 million gift from the Robertson Foundation that will help create a state-of-the-art Translational Cell Therapy Center.
• The Durham Herald-Sun was honored by its peers during the North Carolina Press Association awards for 2009 as the first-place recipient for General Excellence, as well as receiving eight other staff and individual awards.
• The Duke men's basketball team has advanced to the sweet 16 in the NCAA Tournament and the women's team is hosting LSU tonight in Cameron Indoor Stadium in the second round of the NCAA tournament.

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