
Laura Candler
Web ProducerLaura moved from Chattanooga to Chapel Hill in 2013 to join վ as a web producer. She graduated from the Salt Institute for Documentary Studies in the spring of 2012 and has created radio and multimedia stories for a variety of outlets, including Marketplace, Prairie Public, and Maine Public Broadcasting. When she's not out hunting stories, you can usually find her playing the fiddle.
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NC State's Wolfpack has had the entire season to prepare for its World Series shot this weekend, but when they arrived at the hotel in Omaha this week, a…
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In 1982, a woman notified the police that two men had broken into her home, and one of them had sexually assaulted her. She described the sexual offender…
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“The worst thing you can be is a sex offender because it’s dirt that you can’t wash off.”Those words were spoken by James Waller in an interview with վ…
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It might not be much to look at, but in the history of the World Wide Web, this image is a landmark. It's the earliest web page found so far, according to…
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Update 12/31/13: This story was mentioned in a Huffington Post list of notable prison stories from 2013. All the stories from this series are available…
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Marvin Anderson was exonerated in 2001 after spending 15 years in a Virginia prison and four years on parole for crimes he did not commit. His exoneration…
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Jeffrey Deskovic was 16 when one of his female classmates, Angela Correa, was found murdered in the woods in their hometown in upstate New York. He says…
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A group of graduating seniors at Elon University have been recognized nationally for their YouTube video that imitates the intro of the popular sitcom…
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In 1981, a 27-year-old white woman was riding her bike when she was attacked and raped by a shirtless African American man. A rape kit was collected, and…
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When Julie Baumer rushed her new-born nephew Philipp to the hospital on October 3, 2003, she had no idea what was wrong. He couldn’t keep his formula down…