Verbatim.

• Position: NC trend

"If Duke had given me the proper financial resources, I wouldn't have done porn."

1. Miriam Weeks, a Duke University freshman who told Playboy.com she became a porn actress--stage name Belle Knox--to pay for college. The Durham school's undergrad tuition will increase 4% to $45,800 in 2014-15.

   "What's important is the jobs and the investment."

2. Mecklenburg County Economic Development Director John Allen after Chiquita Brands International Inc. announced it is merging with Dublin-based Fyffes PLC and will move its headquarters to Ireland. Chiquita got a $22 million incentive package from state and local governments in 2012 by agreeing to move and keep its headquarters in the Queen City...