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Burlington police radio traffic leading up to the Monday, July 23, fatal police shooting on Dorsett Street. Burlington police distributed this file to the media on Tuesday, July 24.

The incident itself lasted around 24 minutes. Chief Jeffrey Smythe says this is a condensed audio file that automatically edited out silent portions of the radio traffic reducing the audio to around 11 minutes.

Reporter Jessica Williams catches us up on her year-long series detailing what's behind the ABSS bond and what would come from it if voters approve it Nov. 6.
In this podcast:
:55 -- Breakdown of spending campus by campus
1:30 -- Why Southern Alamance would get the most money
3:44 -- The gross bathrooms
5:35 -- Work that the public won't see
7:40 -- Black mold at Cummings
10:30 -- Recapping the first two stories in the series
11:30 -- Graham HS science lab
13:00 -- Mr. Wizard, Bill Nye, Eyewitness Videos, & a glaring generation gap
14:00 -- Cummings HS arts program
14:25 -- Where's the lottery funding?
17:00 -- Two elementary schools getting fixes
19:00 -- More about Southern Alamance fixes
21:30 -- 15-minute lunches
23:15 -- What's online for you

The trial of Khakim Malik Harvey and Kyle Lavar McNeil continues in Alamance County Superior Court. They're charged with first-degree murder in the Memorial Day 2016 death of Tony Antwane Daye Jr.

In this update:

0:25 - Recap of the crime, timeline of events at the scene
5:22 - Who are the parties involved and key witnesses?
7:30 - Who's in the courtroom?
8:17 - The testimony so far
10:00 - What's the physical evidence so far?
13:00 - DNA evidence
15:00 - Detective work
16:00 - Identifying the suspects
17:30 - How did the suspects escape the park?
19:51 - What's next in the trial?

Two men are on trial for murder in an alleged robbery gone wrong at City Park overnight on Memorial Day 2016. Reporter Isaac Groves has been in the courtroom daily and gets us up to speed on what the three eyewitnesses have testified to before jurors.

Times-News education reporter Jessica Williams describes the sights and sounds at the state capitol Wednesday, and talks a little bit about some of the frustrations ABSS teachers feel in the classroom. Will the rally create political change? That remains to be seen. But did teachers leave Raleigh feeling the weight of their numbers and cause? Yes.

From this week in Alamance County Superior Court.

Sellars and Schut say the specialized STEM program is opening new avenues for their students and making their time in the classroom more rewarding.

STEM Coordinator Valerie Sellars and Science Department Head Christine Sudzina Schut get excited talking about the new possibilities they have to educate students through state-of-the-art lab equipment and computer technology after the school got a $1.5 million Gold Leaf Foundation grant to equip STEM learning.

Reporter Kate Croxton describes interviews with "inactive" gang members and what they said led them to join a gang and to eventually want to participate less in gang life.

Reporter Kate Croxton discusses the reporting she did and what led to this week's six-part series on gang activity in Alamance County and how law enforcement track gangs.