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  • Polling for 28 seats of NC Hills Autonomous Council underway in Assam

    Voting is on for 28 seats of the North Cachar Hills Autonomous Council in Assam today. Over 1,21,000 voters are eligible to seal the political fate of 138 candidates. The Congress has fielded 28 candidates. The BJP has its candidates in ten constituencies. Nineteen former insurgent leaders are also in the poll fray. Meanwhile, security has been intensified across Dima Hasao District to ...

  • North Carolina researchers create genome map for what we eat

    CHAPEL HILL, N.C. -Do your kids love chocolate milk? It might have more calories on average than you thought.Same goes for soda.Until now, the only way to find out what people in the United States eat and how many calories they consume has been government data, which can lag behind the rapidly expanding and changing food marketplace.Researchers from the University of North Carolina at Chapel ...

  • Wreck kills 1 knocks out power to hundreds

    One person was killed in a Sunday evening wreck on Providence Road that police blamed on excessive speed. Police identified the dead man as 22-year-old Adrian Francisco Sanchez. Police say Sanchez was speeding in his 2003 Acura 3.2 TL S just after 6 p.m. when he lost control, drove off the right side of the road and struck a utility pole. Sanchez was pronounced dead at the scene. Police say ...

  • Teenage girl shot in leg

    A teenage girl was shot inside a home on West Boulevard early Sunday. The shots were fired inside the girl’s home. She was hit in the leg but her injuries weren’t life-threatening. Assault with a deadly weapon detectives and robbery detectives responded to the scene, but police had only a vague description of the suspects. Officers were still investigating. Police encourage anyone ...

  • Zebulon houses hit by stray bullets

    Zebulon, N.C. - Zebulon police are investigating what appears to be stray rifle bullets that hit three houses on Braemar Highland Drive Saturday evening.Police Chief Timothy Hayworth said Sunday afternoon that an initial investigation found that two houses were occupied at the time and at least one bullet hit the bedroom of a 3-year-old girl."I was completely freaked out," said the ...


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Blood Diamond

Blood Diamond

Liberal guilt movies are always a hard trick to pull off, especially when they mix didactic soapbox standing and action-adventure explosiveness with the randy zeal of Edward Zwick's Blood Diamond. There is an undeniable nobility to the film's desire to shed light on the little- ... ...

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  • Legislator opposes I-77 tolls

    MOORESVILLE A second Charlotte-area state representative on Sunday announced his opposition to planned Interstate 77 toll lanes. “When you’re driving down a road that you already paid for, you shouldn’t be taxed again with a toll,” State Rep. Larry Pittman, R-Cabarrus, told members of Widen I-77, a Lake Norman-area citizens group fighting the state’s $550 million ...

  • Billy Graham isn’t finished preaching yet

    He’ll be 95 in November, but Billy Graham still isn’t finished preaching. His hearing and eyesight faltering, Graham is not up to any more stadium-size crusades. But he can still talk into a camera. And that’s what he’s been doing over the last six months, speaking about Christ, the cross and America in his mountaintop Montreat home. The Charlotte-based Billy Graham Evangelistic ...

  • Charlotte NC celebrates 1963 eat-in that desegregated restaurants set example for South

    In this May 16, 2013, photo, Abdulah Salim, Jr. hold the photograph of his father Dr. Reginald A. Hawkins who was a prominent Charlotte civil rights leader, in Silver Spring, Md. In the spring of 1963, a Hawkins led 65 people on a four-mile march from an African American college to the center of Charlotte’s downtown. ( AP Photo/Jose Luis ...

  • Community raises money for man paralyzed in motorcycle wreck

    Knightdale, N.C. - The Knightdale community came together Sunday to raise money for a man severely injured in a motorcycle wreck last month.Bruce Basil Hemmingway is adjusting to live as a quadriplegic, but he requires 24/7 care."I can't move my arms. I can't feed myself," he said. "I was the breadwinner. That's shut down (this) definitely changed our lives ...

  • Traffic wreck shuts down I-85 south person trapped

    Southbound Interstate 85 is shut down because of a vehicle wreck where at least one person is trapped. The wreck happened around 4:30 p.m. near Graham Street. Firefighters and paramedics were on scene, but it was unclear how long the road would be closed. First responders did not have an update on the condition of the person who was trapped in the ...

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