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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 ...

  • 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 ...


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30 Minutes or Less

30 Minutes or Less

30 Minutes or Less is a hyped-up comedic fictionalization of an actual event that occurred in Erie, Pennsylvania, in 2003, in which a middle-aged pizza delivery man was supposedly forced to rob a bank by a trio of men who latched a homemade timebomb around his neck. The ... ...

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  • 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 ...

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