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  • Steele Creek officers arrest BE suspects

    Charlotte-Mecklenburg police have arrested two men for allegedly breaking into a car in the 1000 block of Orchard Grass Court and stealing an iPad and cell phone from it. Officers with the Steele Creek division were able to find the suspects by using a GPS tracking device on the iPad’s operating system. Jeremy Valssingane, 19, and Christopher Green, 20, were both charged with felony ...

  • ARC of NC leader going to state government post

    RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) -- A longtime advocate for people with mental disabilities in North Carolina is joining state government as the director of the agency that oversees services for them and others with mental illness or alcohol or drug abuse ...

  • 19th-century NCs lieutenant governor office opens

    RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) -- North Carolina's lieutenant governor conducts state business in a 130-year-old home that's been freshened up since Dan Forest took office as the state's No. 2 executive branch ...

  • 15-year-old can be charged as adult in Wake double slaying

    Raleigh, N.C. - A 15-year-old boy charged four months ago in the shooting deaths of a married couple in their Wake County home can be tried as an adult, a District Court judge ruled.A witness testified during a probable cause hearing Tuesday that Jose Samual Flores Mendoza and his wife, Maria Saravia Mendoza, both 34, were unintentional victims in a dispute between two rival gangs and that the ...

  • Raleigh waits for higher powers to decide on sweepstakes parlors

    Raleigh, N.C. - Raleigh City Councilors are waiting for state and county decisions before taking any action against Raleigh's sweepstakes parlors.At Tuesday's Law and Public Safety Committee meeting, City Attorney Tom McCormick said city staff has prepared a draft ordinance that would regulate where sweepstakes parlors can operate, but should wait for more direction from the state and ...


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Intentions of Murder (Akai satsui) [DVD]

Intentions of Murder (Akai satsui) [DVD]

While the title makes it sound like to a lurid noir thriller, Shohei Imamuras Intentions of Murder is more properly described as a perversely twisted domestic melodrama about how Japanese society allows pathetic men to manipulate and control the women in their live ... ...

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  • Storms bring hail high winds to Charlotte area

    A severe thunderstorm warning for Mecklenburg County expired at 4:30 p.m. Tuesday, as the hail- and high-wind-producing storm moved south through Union County. As the storms weakened late Tuesday, they left power outages and trees down in some areas south of Charlotte, including Matthews, Indian Trails and SouthPark. Some 1,699 residents were without power in Mecklenburg County just before 5 ...

  • NC Medicaid shortfall now $330 million-plus

    RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) -- The North Carolina office that oversees Medicaid says the funding shortfall for the government health insurance program is more than $330 ...

  • NC budget deletes education earmarks for lottery

    RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) -- The North Carolina budget sought by Senate Republicans would eliminate the law that lays out how the state lottery's net proceeds should be distributed for ...

  • NC House bill keeps free lanes when tolls arrive

    If highways were expanded, the state Department of Transportation could toll lanes to pay for the construction. The department could also offer limited access and higher speed limits to encourage motorists to take the toll ...

  • UNC Orange County collaborate on energy project

    An Army green megawatt generator shipped from Austria is now in operation approximately two miles from the Orange County landfill. The generator will be used to convert methane emissions into electricity to power the local energy grid and the construction of Carolina North. "It's a reciprocating engine, so it's much like the engine in your car except it runs on landfill gas ...

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