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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 ...

  • Sleeping Sanford teen wounded in drive-by shooting

    Sanford, N.C. - A 14-year-old boy was released from a hospital Monday, one day after being shot while sleeping in his Sanford home.Charles McIver Jr. still has bullet fragments lodged in his ankle, thigh and buttocks, according to his mother, and family members said they believe his older brother was the intended target of the gunman.McIver's brother, Trevor Dion Rader, 22, has a lengthy ...

  • NC public school grant bill lauded by proponents

    RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) -- Supporters of a bill providing public money to low-income families to attend North Carolina private or religious schools say passing the measure would help give all students the prospect of succeeding in ...

  • Man accused of stealing $600000 from Walmart in Carolinas and Georgia

    An open door into a small-town storage unit last month raised a window into Robert Michael Milton’s private world. Now the 49-year-old is in Mecklenburg County Jail, accused of masterminding a three-year scheme that stole more than $600,000 from Walmart stores in three states, and put scores of investigators – including one from the Department of Homeland Security – on his ...

  • High school graduations begin Tuesday

    The first of more than three dozen high school graduation ceremonies in Mecklenburg County takes place Tuesday afternoon, when seniors at Cato Middle College receive diplomas in a 1 p.m. event at Ovens Auditorium in Charlotte. Cato Middle College is a Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools magnet school, based at CPCC’s Cato Campus in northeast Charlotte. More than a dozen other high schools in ...


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The Tourist

The Tourist

A remake of the 2005 French film Anthony Zimmer, The Tourist is the Hollywood debut of German filmmaker Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck, who won an Oscar three years ago for his tense Cold War thriller The Lives of Others (2006). Given von Donnersmarcks obvious talent b ... ...

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  • Plan to help same-day surgery centers will get more study

    RALEIGH A proposal that would have made it easier for physicians to open same-day surgery centers will be deferred for a year while a study committee takes an in-depth look at state and federal regulation of medical facilities. Rep. Mark Hollo, chairman of the state House Health and Human Services Committee, said the original bill was amended to give lawmakers more time to gather information ...

  • Swisher Hygiene delays filing quarterly report

    Charlotte-based Swisher Hygiene said Monday that it is behind filing required a required quarterly financial report, and in danger of being delisted by the Nasdaq and the Toronto Stock Exchange. The company said it hopes to file its quarterly report later this week. Swisher has been battling a series of financial reporting problems for more than a year, and delayed filing most of its quarterly ...

  • CATS light rail meeting Tuesday

    Charlotte Area Transit System will host two meetings this month, including one Tuesday night, to provide an update on the extension of the light rail line into north Charlotte. Demolition and advanced utility relocation work is scheduled to start within the next month or two, according to CATS officials, and people will see temporary signs and fencing, grading and new retaining walls. At the ...

  • Autopsy Wake deputies shot mental patient in back

    RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) -- An autopsy report says Wake County sheriff's deputies shot an unarmed mental patient four times, including once at point-blank range in the ...

  • 80-Year-Old North Carolina Educator Why I Am Going to Risk Arrest Today

    Moral Mondays . I join ministers, students, teachers, and other concerned citizens at the state capitol in Raleigh because I am deeply concerned about the legislation of this session of the North Carolina General Assembly. In my judgment, many laws and pending laws that will guide public policy and practice are not in the public interest, and in many instances, will have a negative effect on the ...

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