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  • Brakes put on proposal to raise speed limit

    Raleigh, N.C. - The state House suddenly halted debate Wednesday on a proposal that would allow the state Department of Transportation to raise the speed limit on some highways to 75 mph. was pushed back to Thursday's floor session after about 10 minutes of debate Wednesday. No explanation for the move was provided.Before debate ended, a bipartisan group of lawmakers expressed opposition to ...

  • Waxhaw mayor faces August court date on DWI charge

    Waxhaw Mayor Daune Gardner faces an Aug. 15 court date on a driving while impaired charge from this month where her blood-alcohol content level was 0.18., more than twice the legal limit, Union County court records show. Town commissioners are considering censuring her at an upcoming meeting. When the board began to discuss potential censure-related expenses at a meeting Tuesday, Gardner ...

  • Latino art event marks its 10th year

    Last weekend, the Mint Museum Uptown showcased a Colombian-born painter whose controversial art responded to political and social unrest in her country in the 1940s and 1950s. On Thursday, local Latino artists will present paintings, photographs, poems, musical pieces and visual performances in reaction to Débora Arango’s work. Arango is one of the pioneers of modern Colombian ...

  • Suspect in Hidden Valley shootout dies of injuries

    Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police on the scene where at least two men were wounded, one seriously, in a shootout during a police drug undercover operation Tuesday afternoon, June 18,2013, in the parking lot of Hidden Valley Elementary School in north Charlotte, police say. Police Chief Rodney Monroe said the shooting broke out after an undercover police officer and an informant had made a drug ...

  • Landfill rule changes OKd by NC Senate panel

    RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) -- North Carolina waste disposal companies could have more room to build landfills in legislation that changes a 2007 law designed to discourage out-of-state trash from being shipped Down ...


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Movie Review

Blindness [DVD]

Blindness [DVD]

Based on the novel by Nobel laureate Jos Saramago, Fernando Meirelless Blindness is a harrowing, if sometimes overly hammering descent into the darkest depths of human nature. A sort of Lord of the Flies parable, it suggests an inexplicable and highly contagious epidemic that r ... ...

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  • Tenn. man arrested in stop on I-40

    Morrisville, N.C. - The North Carolina State Highway Patrol suspected a Tennessee man was transporting liquid methamphetamine near Raleigh-Durham International Airport Wednesday morning after a search of his car yielded a gallon jug of a clear liquid.Highway Patrol spokesman 1st Sgt. Jeff Gordon said a state trooper stopped Michael Edwards, 29, of Johnson City, Tenn., for a seatbelt violation ...

  • Teen charged in fatal Rocky Mount wreck

    Rocky Mount, N.C. - A 16-year-old Nash County girl faces charges in connection with a wreck last week that killed a Rocky Mount truck driver.Jordan Anne Thomas, of 208 Regency Drive, Nashville, was charged Tuesday with misdemeanor death by motor vehicle and failure to yield in the June 10 death of David Warren Stone.Stone, 71, was hauling building materials on U.S. Highway 301 Bypass in Rocky ...

  • Bull Durham turns 25 -- and whats your favorite sports movie

    The other day, I was picking out some movies to give to my nephew, who just graduated from high school and who hinted that he’d like, as a gift from me, some great DVDs for his collection. I was having fun choosing some classics that I thought he’d like . . . a little Hitchcock here, a little Kubrick there . . . and then I thought I should include a sports movie, as he loves sports. ...

  • Mecklenburg commissioners approve 2.35-cent tax increase

    Mecklenburg commissioners formally approved a $1.7 billion budget with a 2.35-cent tax rate increase Tuesday night, but not without great theater – and rhetoric. During the pre-vote debate, commissioners evoked the names of Caesar, Jesus and LBJ. Democrats chided Republicans for their inclination to “cut, cut, cut” to avoid tax hikes. Republicans sniped at Democrats for going on a spending ...

  • Meth found in car stopped on I-40 near RDU

    Morrisville, N.C. - The North Carolina State Highway Patrol briefly delayed traffic near Raleigh-Durham International Airport Wednesday after a trooper stopped a car and found five jars of liquid methamphetamine inside.Just after 11 a.m., troopers pulled over a driver in a silver car on westbound Interstate 40 and found the driver, Michael Edwards, 29, of Johnson City, Tenn., was wanted in ...

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