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🌱 Durham Rescue Mission Easter Celebration + 17 Year Cold Case Solved

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Posted Fri, Apr 15, 2022 at 3:25 pm ET|Updated Fri, Apr 15, 2022 at 6:41 pm ET

First, today's weather:

Not as warm; an a.m. t-storm. High: 67 Low: 54.

Here are the top five stories today in Durham:

The Durham Rescue Mission held its annual Easter celebration on Friday. With the cost of inflation soaring, many families are struggling more than usual and parents were excited to get an Easter basket for their children. Volunteers helped cook 900 pounds of pork for barbecue, and around 3,000 hot dogs to give out to families as the event returned to in-person festivities for the first time since the pandemic. (CBS17, abc11)
Durham police have made an arrest in a 17-year-old cold case following a DNA retest. Investigators have been taking second looks at thousands of old sexual assault case files, and during the process investigator Winston Hunt noticed something that caught his attention. The hunch has now led to an arrest. Timothy Rorie was a DNA match to the cold case, and is already in the system from a 2008 charge. (WRAL)
In spite of hiring efforts the Durham Police Department is struggling to fill vacancies. There are currently 102 vacancies in the DPD, leaving fewer officers to respond in the recent violent crimes. With fewer officers available, response times could be longer for lower priority calls. (CBS17)
One person has died with another injured in a shooting that took place at Cadence at RTP. The apartment complex is especially popular among N.C. Central students and was also the site of a February home invasion and shooting. Police have not released further details regarding the incident. (WRAL)

Today in Durham:

Pop-Up Egg Hunt at Duke Homestead Historic Site (10:00am-12:00pm)
Triangle Pop-Up Market at Boxyard RTP (11:00am-3:00pm)
Spring Patchwork Market at the Durham Armory (12:00pm-4:00pm) + 3rd Saturdays Local Maker + Vintage Market at Durty Bull (12:00pm-5:00pm)
The Comedy Experience at Moon Dog Meadery (8:00pm-9:30pm)
Jmbalaya Slam Grand Slam Finals Poetry Slam at Hayti Heritage Center (8:00pm-10:30pm)

Bonus: 8 Things to do with your kids this weekend. (WRAL)

From my notebook:

It's Husband Appreciation Day and I don't know about you, but I'll be appreciating my husband via a good old fashioned beer wall. Pour Taproom has a wall full of self serve beers that will be on me. (We share a bank account.)
Growler Grlz is hosting a Ukrainian Relief Night with 50% of all proceeds going to benefit Ukrainian relief efforts from 4:00pm-10:00pm.
Local author, Erika White, will be at Once Upon a Child with the Easter Bunny with copies of her children's books from 9:30am-8:00pm.
The N.C. Department of Agriculture offers free soil testing for lime and fertilizer recommendations between April 1 and October 31. (WWAY3)

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