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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 ...

  • Charlotte Bobcats on verge of changing name back to Hornets

    Sources have told The Associated Press that Charlotte Bobcats owner Michael Jordan will change the team's name back to the Hornets. (file photo) (Jason E. ...

  • NC Attorney General pans Senate plan to restructure SBI

    RALEIGH North Carolina Attorney General Roy Cooper, sheriffs, police chiefs and prosecutors from across the state say an N.C. Senate proposal to move most of the State Bureau of Investigation under the governor will hamper political corruption probes. The law enforcement officers gathered Monday morning, less than a full day after the state Senate rolled out a budget plan that moves most of the ...

  • Suspect in NC strategists stabbings indicted

    The warrant says Broyhill told investigators that he brought the weapon from his home when he visited the couple that day. In an affidavit accompanying a warrant, a detective wrote: "The suspect was interviewed and admitted to his involvement in the crime . . ...

  • Sleeping Sanford teen wounded in drive-by shooting

    Sanford, N.C. - A 14-year-old boy was released from a hospital Monday, one day after being shot while sleeping in his Sanford home.Charles McIver Jr. still has bullet fragments lodged in his ankle, thigh and buttocks, according to his mother, and family members said they believe his older brother was the intended target of the gunman.McIver's brother, Trevor Dion Rader, 22, has a lengthy ...


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Blast From the Past

Hollywood loves its time-bending fish-out-of-water stories, whether that be sending '80s teenager Michael J. Fox into the mid-'50s in "Back to the Future" (1985) or unfreezing '60s-era British superspy Mike Myers in the 1990s in "Austin Powers" (1997). Seeing the members of one generation wallowing helplessly in another time and place is always good for a few yuks and even some amusing commentary ... ...

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  • NC public school grant bill lauded by proponents

    RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) -- Supporters of a bill providing public money to low-income families to attend North Carolina private or religious schools say passing the measure would help give all students the prospect of succeeding in ...

  • Man accused of stealing $600000 from Walmart in Carolinas and Georgia

    An open door into a small-town storage unit last month raised a window into Robert Michael Milton’s private world. Now the 49-year-old is in Mecklenburg County Jail, accused of masterminding a three-year scheme that stole more than $600,000 from Walmart stores in three states, and put scores of investigators – including one from the Department of Homeland Security – on his ...

  • High school graduations begin Tuesday

    The first of more than three dozen high school graduation ceremonies in Mecklenburg County takes place Tuesday afternoon, when seniors at Cato Middle College receive diplomas in a 1 p.m. event at Ovens Auditorium in Charlotte. Cato Middle College is a Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools magnet school, based at CPCC’s Cato Campus in northeast Charlotte. More than a dozen other high schools in ...

  • 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 ...

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