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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 ...

  • 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, ...

  • 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 ...

  • Biotech Center would lose half its state support

    North Carolina Biotechnology Center would see its annual state support cut in half to about $8.6 million under the budget proposal drafted by the North Carolina Senate. Meanwhile, the Research Triangle Regional Partnership and the state's six other regional economic development partnerships would lose all of their state operational support. That represents a total cut of about $4.3 million ...


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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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  • In Pictures Dinosaurs Invade Raleigh

    I've always been fascinated with dinosuars. From learning about them in second grade with Miss Jenkins, to getting my head stuck in a railing trying to catch a better glimpse of an Ankylosaurs skeleton at a San Francisco museum - these terrible creatures have always captured my fancy. And now, the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences is hosting an exhibit called "Dinosaurs in ...

  • Pedestrian sign means stop

    Who doesn't know what the sign pictured with this blog means? It's a pedestrian warning sign, and it means motorists are required by law to stop and allow pedestrians to cross the street. Fat chance. It happens everyday. Pedestrians try to cross a street, a road or a highway at their own peril because motorists rarely stop - as, again, the law requires. This morning, while crossing ...

  • Pack light when flying American and the airline will reward you

    American Airlines (Pink Sheets: AAMRQ) will be rewarding me for this by letting me board the plane right after uniformed military, elite and first class passengers. The airline came out with a ...

  • Slideshow Fast-growing Greensboro firm poised to be an anomaly

    Jerry Wass has in just a couple of years grown his leads-generating company, Anomaly Squared, from a concept to 300 employees, with plans to be at 500 by the end of the summer. The company may be branded as an anomaly, but the man behind it is certainly the epitome of the entrepreneurial spirit. As I photographed and chatted with CEO Jerry Wass at the new digs of Anomaly Squared in Greensboro, I ...

  • Winston-Salem called a shining example of economic development

    Economic development efforts and wage growth got Winston-Salem a shoutout as one of "ten shining examples of economic development thats working." Economic development efforts and wage growth got Winston-Salem a shoutout as one of ten shining examples of economic development thats working in the current edition of Southern Business & Development magazine. Winston-Salem is one of ...

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