• Plan to help same-day surgery centers will get more study

  RALEIGH A proposal that would have made it easier for physicians to open same-day surgery centers will be deferred for a year while a study committee takes an in-depth look at state and federal regulation of medical facilities. Rep. Mark Hollo, chairman of the state House Health and Human Services Committee, said the original bill was amended to give lawmakers more time to gather information ...

• Swisher Hygiene delays filing quarterly report

  Charlotte-based Swisher Hygiene said Monday that it is behind filing required a required quarterly financial report, and in danger of being delisted by the Nasdaq and the Toronto Stock Exchange. The company said it hopes to file its quarterly report later this week. Swisher has been battling a series of financial reporting problems for more than a year, and delayed filing most of its quarterly ...

• CATS light rail meeting Tuesday

  Charlotte Area Transit System will host two meetings this month, including one Tuesday night, to provide an update on the extension of the light rail line into north Charlotte. Demolition and advanced utility relocation work is scheduled to start within the next month or two, according to CATS officials, and people will see temporary signs and fencing, grading and new retaining walls. At the ...

• Autopsy Wake deputies shot mental patient in back

  RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) -- An autopsy report says Wake County sheriff's deputies shot an unarmed mental patient four times, including once at point-blank range in the ...

• 80-Year-Old North Carolina Educator Why I Am Going to Risk Arrest Today

  Moral Mondays . I join ministers, students, teachers, and other concerned citizens at the state capitol in Raleigh because I am deeply concerned about the legislation of this session of the North Carolina General Assembly. In my judgment, many laws and pending laws that will guide public policy and practice are not in the public interest, and in many instances, will have a negative effect on the ...

• Wake manager’s budget $982M no tax hike

  David Cooke wants to spend $982.8 million next year in a budget with no tax increase that funds growth in some county departments. Cooke gave his plan for fiscal 2014, which begins June 30, to the Wake commissioners on Monday. Under it, total spending would rise by $44 million, or about 4.7 percent, with education and public safety each getting $9 million of the increase. Some $17 million of ...

• Trimeris buyer Synageva gets FDA nod

  in 2011 merged with Lexington, Mass.-based Synageva BioPharma Corp. (Nasdaq: GEVA)? Synageva netted a win today - a "breakthrough therapy" designation from the FDA for the combined company's sebipase alfa, which is a treatment for a deadly pediatric disease. Called LAL, it's an inherited disorder that typically kills infants within the first six months of life. The ...

• Rocky Mount sisters killed in Georgia wreck

  Rocky Mount, N.C. - A recent trip to Texas for a wedding and four graduations led to tragedy for a Rocky Mount woman, who now is trying to deal with the loss of two daughters.Marianne Karth was westbound on Interstate 20 between Augusta, Ga., and Atlanta on May 4 when she came upon a line of slowed traffic. Georgia state troopers said a semi-truck hauling cars tried to switch lanes and hit ...

• No tax increase in proposed Wake budget

  Raleigh, N.C. - The $982.8 million budget proposal that Wake County Manager David Cooke unveiled Monday would maintain local property taxes at existing levels and stick to funding core services.The budget would increase by $44.3 million, or 4.7 percent, from 2012-13, and the extra money would be split among education, public safety, human services, capital spending and other county ...

• Warrant Raleigh man admitted involvement in political strategists stabbing death

  Raleigh, N.C. - The man accused of fatally stabbing an up-and-coming political strategist and injuring her husband at their Raleigh home nearly a month ago was indicted Monday in the case - the same day a search warrant made public shows that he admitted to police his involvement in the crime.Jonathan Wayne Broyhill, 31, is charged with first-degree murder in the April 22 attack on Jamie Kirk ...

• Charlotte high school student has TB other South Mecklenburg students being tested

  About 35 South Mecklenburg High School students are being tested for tuberculosis this week after a student there was diagnosed with an active TB case. The diagnosed student is being treated and is “under isolation” until the threat of contagion has passed, according to Dr. Steve Keener, medical director of the Mecklenburg County Health Department. Treatment with a series of antibiotics will ...

• Cary’s Ply Gem clears final hurdle

  Cary-based Ply Gem Holdings, which wants to raise $345 million in an initial public offering, has received its final registration approval from ...

• LexisNexis Cary division upgrades law firm software

  The business data company LexisNexis is upgrading its Firm Manager software with a new tool to allow lawyers to share documents with each other and their clients via the Internet, managers said Monday. The new version of Firm Manager includes WatchDox, a file-sharing capability that's similar in concept to the popular Dropbox ...

• Senior housing property sells for $31 million

  A Georgia senior housing firm has bought the Manor Village at Preston apartment community in Morrisville for $31 million. The 166-unit community has been renamed as Preston Pointe. It was a unit of Rauls Convalescent Home Inc. of Macon, Ga., that purchased the property from Manor Village Life ...

• NC towns clock heading to museum after 97 years

  http://bit.ly/115AHiT ) city officials have scrapped an idea to refurbish a clock attached to the local three-story bank building because it would be too ...

• Lagging sales prompt Lenovo layoffs here

  Ray Gorman says can be attributed to a slowing PC industry. With 90 percent of Lenovo's business in the PC arena, the company is feeling the heat of declining numbers, he says. "To help meet these shifts in our industry, achieve our goals and beat market expectations, we need to continue to invest in these high-growth areas, what we call PC Plus, while reducing our expenses and cost ...

• Can Tumblr make Yahoo ‘cool’

  Will Yahoo's Tumblr buy make the Internet giant relevant to the Triangle's young and tech-savvy generation? That's something experts such as University of Warwick Business School ...

• Duke University dean with advice for MBA graduates

  asked its Associate Dean for Career Management Sheryle Dirks about what MBA graduates should expect in the workforce, and how potential students should think about their careers. Here's an edited version. ...

• Autopsy Mentally ill man shot four times by law enforcement

  Raleigh, N.C. - A man with a mental illness who was shot by Wake County sheriff's deputies in March died of multiple gunshot wounds, including one at contact range, according to an autopsy report released Monday.Jonathan Lee Cunningham, 35, was being transported by a deputy to a Winston-Salem psychiatric facility on March 31 when he got into a fight with the deputy, took off in his patrol ...

• DT Cole ready to resurface

  was helping the first team in NFL history to make the playoffs with a 7-9 record shock the world by knocking off the reigning Super Bowl champion New Orleans Saints.Now, some 28 months later, Cole is working feverishly to come out of nowhere again."I don't think words can really describe how excited I am to have another opportunity to get out on the football field," said Cole, who ...

• Leading budget writers offer details on $20.6 billion plan

  RALEIGH The state Senate’s $20.6 billion budget proposal has no raises for state employees, puts new limits on health services for some Medicaid patients, and anticipates a tax cut. Leading senators discussed their reasoning behind the budget plan, which affects every taxpayer, public school student, and some businesses looking to move to the state. “We live within our ...

• Coastal Hampstead properties fall into bankruptcy

  A Wilmington real estate company has put its properties in nearby Hampstead into bankruptcy reorganization, citing liabilities of between $5 million and $10 million. As is somewhat common for new Chapter 11 petitions, the one filed for S & R Grandview LLC on Thursday didnt provide a complete accounting of its assets and liabilities. Its properties are located on and near Grandview Drive and Iris ...

• Re-enactment marks 50th anniversary of NC march

  CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) -- Some Charlotte residents are observing the 50th anniversary of a march that called for an end to segregation in North Carolina's largest ...

• Report How to squeeze $74B from Medicaid

  report published by the Menges Group and sponsored by the Pharmaceutical Care Management Association (PCMA) found that upgrading management of drug benefits in state Medicaid programs nationwide could save $74.4 billion in a 10-year period without cutting either benefits or enrollees. By avoiding drug store overpayments, increasing the use of generics and promoting pharmacies that offer better ...

• Gartner NetApp EMC layoffs part of industry consolidation

  Dave Russell , analyst at research firm Gartner took a few minutes to put the rumored 1,300 NetApp layoffs into perspective. He says he's hearing similar things to what has already ...

• Black jobless rate higher than for whites in N.C.

  While the Tar Heel State's overall unemployment rate is improving, North Carolina has the fourth highest African American unemployment rate in the nation. That's according to a recent brief from the Economic Policy Institute. North Carolina's overall unemployment rate ...

• Sports store to open in Chapel Hill

  Specialty fitness retailer TrySports, which closed its store at Raleigh's Crabtree Valley Mall last fall, is going to try again in the Triangle with a store planned at Chapel Hill's University Mall. The owner of University Mall has announced that Charlotte-based TrySports will open this fall in an 11,876-square-foot space near the Southern Season anchor store. TrySports offers ...

• Senate leaders explain budget plan

  Raleigh, N.C. - State Senate budget writers say their $20.58 billion budget proposal is a balanced effort that meets "the fundamental responsibilities of state government" with resources currently available, while covering a big increase in Medicaid costs and providing funding for tax reform efforts. The budget team met with reporters Monday morning to answer questions about the ...

• Work resumes Tuesday on Concord road

  CONCORD -- Work is scheduled to resume Tuesday on Old Charlotte Road in Concord, according to city officials. Crews are repairing the water line, and that work will force the closure of the northbound lane of Old Charlotte Road SW, between Meadowview Avenue SW and the Cabarrus Avenue roundabout. During the construction, which is expected to last about two weeks,. no northbound traffic will be ...

• Law enforcement backs NC attorney general on SBI

  RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) -- North Carolina's Democratic Attorney General Roy Cooper is opposing a state Senate budget provision that moves much of an investigative unit from his department to one headed by an appointee of Republican Gov. Pat ...

• Durham buildings prepped for Duke’s use

  There's something big happening behind those construction barriers set up around two old Liggett and Myers tobacco buildings in Durham's West Village. Construction workers for Lechase Construction have been moving in and out of both the Carmichael Building at 300 Duke St. and the old Liggett and Myers Research Building at 710 W. Main St. in recent weeks, but Duke University's ...

• I-40 west closed south of downtown Raleigh

  Raleigh, N.C. - Interstate 40 westbound south of downtown Raleigh was closed Monday morning after a wreck near the split with Interstate 440 at mile marker 301. The road was expected to remain closed through the noon hour, according to the state Highway Patrol. Witnesses said the wreck involved a single tractor-trailer carrying bags of concrete. The driver told Highway Patrol that he ...

• Law enforcement authorities pan proposed SBI shift

  Raleigh, N.C. - North Carolina Attorney General Roy Cooper and a number of local law enforcement officials from across the state on Monday criticized a Senate proposal to restructure the State Bureau of Investigation.The Senate budget plan rolled out Sunday night calls for moving most of the SBI from the Department of Justice and placing it under the control of the Department of Public Safety, ...

• Wells Fargo slows foreclosure sales BofA not so much

  Three large banks have nearly halted their foreclosure sales while they make sure they are meeting revised standards on how troubled homeowners are to be treated. Wells Fargo & Co., JPMorgan Chase & Co. and Citigroup Inc. have nearly halted foreclosure sales after federal regulators revised orders on the how troubled borrowers were to be treated before losing their homes. But Bank of America ...

• Police Man held knife to woman’s neck at Rock Hill McDonalds

  ROCK HILL A Rock Hill man faces armed robbery charges after police say he held a knife to a 65-year-old Chester County woman’s neck and demanded money while waiting in the drive-thru of a McDonalds on Sunday. Just before 5 a.m., police were called to the McDonalds on North Cherry Road, close to the interstate, where the woman said she was waiting in her car to order food at the drive-thru when ...

• Investors Title hits new high as home sales rebound

  Title insurance companies have recovered along with the housing market. Stocks have bounced back to new highs since housing and the financial sector dragged the market into an abyss in 2009, and one of the strongest comebacks has been at Investors Title Co. (Nasdaq: ITIC), a title insurer based in Chapel Hill. The companys shares closed at a record high of $72 on Friday and went higher still, to ...

• Biotech Center would lose half its state support

  North Carolina Biotechnology Center would see its annual state support cut in half to about $8.6 million under the budget proposal drafted by the North Carolina Senate. Meanwhile, the Research Triangle Regional Partnership and the state's six other regional economic development partnerships would lose all of their state operational support. That represents a total cut of about $4.3 million ...

• In Pictures Dinosaurs Invade Raleigh

  I've always been fascinated with dinosuars. From learning about them in second grade with Miss Jenkins, to getting my head stuck in a railing trying to catch a better glimpse of an Ankylosaurs skeleton at a San Francisco museum - these terrible creatures have always captured my fancy. And now, the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences is hosting an exhibit called "Dinosaurs in ...

• Pedestrian sign means stop

  Who doesn't know what the sign pictured with this blog means? It's a pedestrian warning sign, and it means motorists are required by law to stop and allow pedestrians to cross the street. Fat chance. It happens everyday. Pedestrians try to cross a street, a road or a highway at their own peril because motorists rarely stop - as, again, the law requires. This morning, while crossing ...

• Pack light when flying American and the airline will reward you

  American Airlines (Pink Sheets: AAMRQ) will be rewarding me for this by letting me board the plane right after uniformed military, elite and first class passengers. The airline came out with a ...

• Slideshow Fast-growing Greensboro firm poised to be an anomaly

  Jerry Wass has in just a couple of years grown his leads-generating company, Anomaly Squared, from a concept to 300 employees, with plans to be at 500 by the end of the summer. The company may be branded as an anomaly, but the man behind it is certainly the epitome of the entrepreneurial spirit. As I photographed and chatted with CEO Jerry Wass at the new digs of Anomaly Squared in Greensboro, I ...

• Winston-Salem called a shining example of economic development

  Economic development efforts and wage growth got Winston-Salem a shoutout as one of "ten shining examples of economic development thats working." Economic development efforts and wage growth got Winston-Salem a shoutout as one of ten shining examples of economic development thats working in the current edition of Southern Business & Development magazine. Winston-Salem is one of ...

• Two Tar Heels top ACC baseball honors

  Chapel Hill, N.C. - The national No. 2-ranked University of North Carolina Tar Heels nabbed two top conference honors Monday, just days after claiming the regular season Atlantic Coast Conference championship.Junior third baseman Colin Moran was named ACC Player of the Year and junior Kent Emanuel received ACC Pitcher of the Year honors. The awards are voted on by conference head ...

• Abaroa defense asks judge to dismiss murder case

  Durham, N.C. - Defense attorneys representing a man on trial for allegedly killing his wife asked a judge Monday to dismiss the case, saying that evidence critical to their case wasn't turned over to them until last week.Raven Abaroa, 33, is charged with first-degree murder in the April 26, 2005, death of Janet Abaroa, who was found stabbed to death in their Durham home eight years ago.The ...

• Social Madness nominations top 40 locally 2000 nationwide

  Forty-four Charlotte-area companies are signed up to compete in the 2013 Social Madness challenge, beginning June 3. Since Social Madness nominations closed last week, our colleagues at American City Business Journals Inc., parent company of the Charlotte Business Journal, have been busy vetting entries and tallying final numbers for each market. Several Charlotte-area companies slid in just ...

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