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  • Foxx confirmation hearing set for Wednesday

    Charlotte Mayor Anthony Foxx is introduced by U.S. President Barack Obama as the nominee for Secretary of Transportation at the White House April 29, 2013 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty ...

  • Shanahan suspends practicing law while he’s in office

    RALEIGH Department of Crime Control and Public Safety Secretary Kieran Shanahan will no longer practice law on the side while he holds public office, his former law firm announced Tuesday afternoon. He has transitioned out of his practice at the law firm he started in 2001, and will be on a temporary leave of absence from that firm and from practicing law at all. The announcement came after ...

  • NC public safety chief steps down from law firm

    RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) -- The head of the North Carolina Department of Public Safety is taking a temporary leave of absence from his law firm following questions about potential conflicts of ...

  • NC agency seeks injunction in coal ash case

    CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) -- A state environmental agency is seeking a court injunction against Duke Energy over groundwater that may have been contaminated by coal ash from a Charlotte-area power ...

  • NC attorney general warns of disaster relief scams

    RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) -- North Carolina's attorney general wants to be sure that people who choose to donate money to help with tornado relief in Oklahoma aren't being taken by scam artists ...


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The Hangover

The Hangover

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  • Buyer eyeing downtown Raleigh retail and parking spaces

    Raleigh City Council has scheduled a June 4 public hearing on the sale of two retail spaces and parking areas in the city's Blount Street parking deck to Edison Land LLC. The appraised value of the property is $627,627. Edison Land has agreed to pay the city $12,500 in cash in exchange for an option to buy the property at the appraised value. The hearing will be held at 7 p.m. in the ...

  • NetApp to slash workforce by 900

    NetApp (Nasdaq: NTAP) confirmed it is reducing its workforce by about 900 employees. Details on the impact to its Research Triangle Park were not immediately available. The confirmation came during the release of the ...

  • Closing arguments heard in Shaniya Davis Case

    Fayetteville, N.C. - Prosecutors making closing arguments Tuesday in their case against a Fayetteville man accusing of raping and killing a 5-year-old girl called on the jury to convict based on "strong circumstantial evidence" against the defendant.In his 90-minute closing, Cumberland County District Attorney Billy West exhorted jurors to find Mario Andrette McNeill guilty of rape and ...

  • N.C. sues Duke for polluting Charlotte drinking water

    North Carolina has sued Duke Energy for polluting Mountain Island Lake, Charlotte’s major water source, with contaminants from its coal ash lagoons. The N.C. Division of Water Quality added its claims about Mountain Island to an existing lawsuit filed in March. That litigation asked for a court injunction against a Duke subsidiary over coal-ash pollution at an Asheville power plant. It ...

  • Taylorsville teacher charged with indecent liberties with student

    A teacher in Alexander County has been suspended for alleged inappropriate behavior with her student. Nikki Setzer Icard, a math teacher at Alexander Central High School, is charged with indecent liberties with an 18-year-old male student. The school suspended Icard without pay, pending the outcome of the investigation. Icard graduated from the school herself in 2001. She started teaching ...

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