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  • This week in the war on voting North Carolina ground zero in voter suppression fight

    Not only did 2012 Black voters make the difference in several key swing states, including Florida, Pennsylvania, Virginia and the biggest prize of all, Ohio, but Black voter turnout surpassed the White vote for the first time in history. The Census Bureau found that "About two in three eligible blacks (66.2 percent) voted in the 2012 presidential election, higher than the 64.1 percent of ...

  • CMS employee claims assault by student at Carowinds

    FORT MILL A Charlotte high school employee intends to press charges against a student this week after she told the York County Sheriff’s Office that the female student punched her in the face and threw a cup of urine out of a bus window while on a field trip to Carowinds. The incident happened earlier this month while students and teachers from Vance High School waited to enter the ...

  • Appeals Court OKs suit to get back gambling losses

    COLUMBIA, S.C. A lawyer says a state Court of Appeals ruling clears the way for gamblers to sue for money they lose by playing illegal gambling machines. The court ruled Lauren Proctor could go forward with her lawsuit against two Columbia restaurants where she lost nearly $700,000 from 1999 to 2005. The judges say state law allows people to get back money they gambled away to discourage ...

  • Police investigating fatal east Charlotte shooting

    Charlotte-Mecklenburg police are investigating a fatal shooting in east Charlotte that happened early Saturday. Police found Adam Shawn Santiago, 25, in the 8500 block of Filbert Lane with an apparent gunshot wound. They responded to a call about a shooting about 1:12 a.m., according to a release from the police department, and Santiago was pronounced dead at the scene. Police said Santiago ...

  • Man girl killed on tractor in Wayne County

    MOUNT OLIVE, N.C. State troopers say a man and a 5-year-old girl have died after the tractor they were on was struck by a truck in Wayne County. The Highway Patrol says 48-year-old Terry Lee was driving the tractor around 9:15 p.m. Friday on a rural road near Mount Olive when the truck hit it from behind. Authorities say Lee died at the scene, while Kelsey Davison died a short time later at ...


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The Adventures of Tintin

The Adventures of Tintin

Following in the footsteps of his former protg Robert Zemeckis, who hasnt directed a live actor on film since Tom Hanks talked to a volleyball in Cast Away (2000), Steven Spielberg has ventured into the world of 3D performance capture CGI with The Adventures ... ...

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  • 2 charged with murder in Rocky Mount shooting

    Authorities say 25-year-old Tyrone Foreman and 24-year-old Jermale Avent were arrested Thursday are charged with murder and attempted armed robbery. Both are being held in the Edgecombe County jail without bond and it wasn't known if they had ...

  • Drowned girls mom on probation in 2nd drowning

    JACKSONVILLE, N.C. (AP) -- Investigators say the mother of a 20-month-old girl who drowned last weekend in Jacksonville is on probation after a child she was taking care of drowned in ...

  • Salmonella outbreak from NC hotel sickens 51

    Already, 51 people who ate since May 1 at the Holiday Inn Bordeaux's banquet facilities along with its cafe and sports bar have been sickened with five of them becoming ill enough to be hospitalized, health officials ...

  • Victims Marines failed to safeguard water supply

    CAMP LEJEUNE, N.C. -; A simple test could have alerted officials that the drinking water at Camp Lejeune was contaminated, long before authorities determined that as many as a million Marines and their families were exposed to a witch's brew of cancer-causing ...

  • After nearly 30 years Camp Lejeune coming clean

    A simple test could have alerted officials that the drinking water at Camp Lejeune was contaminated, long before authorities determined that as many as a million Marines and their families were exposed to a witch's brew of cancer-causing ...

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