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  • Charlotte student wins national local scholarships from public housing groups

    Javari Parks, of Charlotte, with his mother Toi Parks. Javari Parks has won two of three national scholarships given by the Public Housing Authority Directors Association and will receive a total of $14,500 from PHADA as he heads to Hampton University in Virginia this fall. DIEDRA LAIRD - ...

  • Police seek teen in Hidden Valley shooting

    Police on Wednesday identified the second suspect in a botched robbery during a drug deal in the Hidden Valley Elementary School parking lot as Davion Drayton, 17, whom police said should be considered armed and dangerous. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police detectives ask that anyone who knows Drayton’s whereabouts to call 704-336-8228 or Crime Stoppers at 704-334-1600. On Tuesday they had said ...

  • Rucho in stand-off over taxes

    RALEIGH State Sen. Bob Rucho remains in a stand-off with his own party’s leadership over his decision last week to resign his Finance Committee co-chairmanship. The Matthews Republican sat with the rank-and-file members at a committee meeting Wednesday instead of taking his normal position on the dais. But Senate President Pro Tem Phil Berger reiterated his position that Rucho’s ...

  • Cone Health announces plans to lay off 150 workers

    President and chief operating officer Terry Akin said the health care provider will eliminate a total of 300 jobs over the next three months. Of those jobs, 150 are vacant, he ...

  • Study Arrested protesters are nearly all from NC

    RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) -- A Civitas Institute study of Moral Monday protesters finds that 98 percent of those arrested at the state legislature are from North ...


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Blindness [DVD]

Blindness [DVD]

Based on the novel by Nobel laureate Jos Saramago, Fernando Meirelless Blindness is a harrowing, if sometimes overly hammering descent into the darkest depths of human nature. A sort of Lord of the Flies parable, it suggests an inexplicable and highly contagious epidemic that r ... ...

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  • NC first lady urges Senate action on breeder bill

    RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) -- North Carolina first lady Ann McCrory is making a rare foray into politics by urging the state Senate to take action on a bill aimed at preventing animal cruelty by large dog ...

  • Country diary Middleton-in-Teesdale Co Durham On the trail of the double dumplings

    plants we'd really come to see were "double dumplings", the old dales name for globe flowers that I first became aware of as a child, when collecting picture cards was a popular pastime. In 1959, Brooke Bond tea distributed a series ...

  • Groups threaten lawsuit over Duke ash

    Three environmental groups have notified Duke Energy Progress, which serves the eastern Carolinas, that they intend to sue the utility over coal ash-related contamination from the Sutton power plant near Wilmington. The groups blame Duke’s ash ponds for contaminating Sutton Lake, a state-managed fishing lake, and groundwater. They say the lake is contaminated by selenium, an ash element ...

  • Anne Springs Close Greenway to host Friday campout

    Anne Springs Close Greenway in Fort Mill is offering a night under the stars in honor of the Great American Backyard Campout on Friday. Activities include a guided hike, kayaking, fishing, games and a hot dog dinner cooked over a campfire. Festivities begin at 6 p.m. at the Greenway’s adventure center off Springfield Parkway. The cost is $3 for Greenway members and $7 for non-Greenway ...

  • I-85 S ramp to I-77 will shut overnight

    A major interstate interchange in Charlotte will be closed overnight Wednesday for repairs after a tractor trailer overturned and went up in flames on Tuesday. The southbound I-85 ramp to I-77 South, Exit 38, will be closed from 9 p.m. Wednesday through 6 a.m. Thursday for repairs. Message boards will direct motorists through the detour. Traffic will move around the closure by entering I-77 ...

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