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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 ...

  • NC Toxic Free Kids Act of 2013 proposed

    NC Toxic Free Kids Act (House Bill 848) was designed to ensure that children's products are safe by asking manufacturers to disclose the presence of toxic chemicals and requiring that they phase out the use of three Priority Chemicals in children's products. This bi-partisan bill was created by NC Reps Chuck McGrady (R-Henderson) and Pricey Harrison (D-Guilford) to address the fact ...

  • Desegregation march re-created today

    Fifty years ago today, Reginald Hawkins led a march from the Johnson C. Smith University campus to the Mecklenburg County Courthouse, in a demand for an end to segregation in Charlotte. Hawkins is expected to participate this morning in a re-creation of that march, which is considered a watershed event in racial relations for Charlotte. The event, part of the “From Sit-Ins to ...

  • Crash follows east Charlotte bank robbery

    Charlotte-Mecklenburg police are questioning three people in connection with an east Charlotte bank robbery Monday morning that ended with a car crash nearby. Police say a Bank of America branch, on Albemarle Road, was robbed a short time after 9 a.m. According to police, a car fitting the description of the getaway vehicle was spotted later on Albemarle Road. The vehicle then turned onto ...

  • Trial opens for former N.C. legislator

    A former member of the Republican leadership of the N.C. House of Representatives faces trial today for allegedly swindling millions of dollars from two government-funded nonprofit ...


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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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  • Downtown Durham names Durham as CEO

    Geoff Durham as its new president and CEO. Durham, 42, has more than 12 years experience in economic development strategy. Most recently, Durham acted as economic development director for Fairfax, Va., and prior to his stint there, he worked Silver Spring, Md., where he developed capital improvement projects for the urban district and managed property development and budgetary needs. The hire ...

  • ICF consolidates local offices new home in Durham

    ICF International, an information technology consulting firm for both corporate and government clients, will be consolidating its operations in the Triangle when it combines the company's offices in Cary and in Research Triangle Park into the Meridian Corporate Center in Durham. ICF (Nasdaq: ICFI) has signed a lease for 11,604 square feet space at 2635 Meridian Parkway in ...

  • Durham group cites creative vitality healthy in town

    study has Durham outpacing the nation by 25 percent and the State of North Carolina by 93 percent. The takeaway? That Durham's "creative economy" supports 7,335 jobs -- a figure that has grown 22 percent between 2006 and 2011. The index measures the health of the creative economy in communities after taking into consideration the number of people working in arts-related ...

  • CMPD breaks ground Monday on Eastway office

    Charlotte Mayor Anthony Foxx, police Chief Rodney Monroe and city council member Patsy Kinsey are expected to be on hand Monday afternoon for groundbreaking ceremonies on the new Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police station in the Eastway Division. The event is planned for 2 p.m. at the site of the facility, on Central Avenue at Merry Oaks Road. When finished, the building will cover 14,622 square ...

  • Cleveland schools name 4 new principals

    SHELBY -- Retirements and a promotion have paved the way for the appointment of four new principals in the Cleveland County Schools. The school board last week approved the naming of new directors at three elementary schools and a high school. The appointments take effect July 1, the school system says. The newly named principals are: Molly Blanton, Township Three Elementary she replaces ...

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