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  • Tenn. man arrested in stop on I-40

    Morrisville, N.C. - The North Carolina State Highway Patrol suspected a Tennessee man was transporting liquid methamphetamine near Raleigh-Durham International Airport Wednesday morning after a search of his car yielded a gallon jug of a clear liquid.Highway Patrol spokesman 1st Sgt. Jeff Gordon said a state trooper stopped Michael Edwards, 29, of Johnson City, Tenn., for a seatbelt violation ...

  • Teen charged in fatal Rocky Mount wreck

    Rocky Mount, N.C. - A 16-year-old Nash County girl faces charges in connection with a wreck last week that killed a Rocky Mount truck driver.Jordan Anne Thomas, of 208 Regency Drive, Nashville, was charged Tuesday with misdemeanor death by motor vehicle and failure to yield in the June 10 death of David Warren Stone.Stone, 71, was hauling building materials on U.S. Highway 301 Bypass in Rocky ...

  • Bull Durham turns 25 -- and whats your favorite sports movie

    The other day, I was picking out some movies to give to my nephew, who just graduated from high school and who hinted that he’d like, as a gift from me, some great DVDs for his collection. I was having fun choosing some classics that I thought he’d like . . . a little Hitchcock here, a little Kubrick there . . . and then I thought I should include a sports movie, as he loves sports. ...

  • Mecklenburg commissioners approve 2.35-cent tax increase

    Mecklenburg commissioners formally approved a $1.7 billion budget with a 2.35-cent tax rate increase Tuesday night, but not without great theater – and rhetoric. During the pre-vote debate, commissioners evoked the names of Caesar, Jesus and LBJ. Democrats chided Republicans for their inclination to “cut, cut, cut” to avoid tax hikes. Republicans sniped at Democrats for going on a spending ...

  • Meth found in car stopped on I-40 near RDU

    Morrisville, N.C. - The North Carolina State Highway Patrol briefly delayed traffic near Raleigh-Durham International Airport Wednesday after a trooper stopped a car and found five jars of liquid methamphetamine inside.Just after 11 a.m., troopers pulled over a driver in a silver car on westbound Interstate 40 and found the driver, Michael Edwards, 29, of Johnson City, Tenn., was wanted in ...


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Contraband

Contraband

Contraband is a moderately enjoyable, generally preposterous thriller of minimal ambitions that plants Mark Wahlberg in his favorite kind of leading role: playing a tough, streetwise professional with a temper who nonetheless has a tender side beneath all the bravado (see also Th ... ...

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  • Caldwell authorities Fire was set

    LENOIR – Fire investigators say the blaze that destroyed a mobile home Tuesday evening in Caldwell County was not accidental. Fire was reported around 5 p.m. at a home in the 3200 block of Berry Court in Gamewell, according to Caldwell officials. A neighbor called 911 after her children said they saw smoke. Dino Dibernardi, an investigator with the Caldwell County Fire Marshal’s ...

  • Providence Road townhome project OK’d

    The Charlotte City Council approved 11-0 Monday a rezoning change that allows for a 19-unit luxury townhome development on the east side of Providence Road, between South Wendover Road and Providence Drive. Developer Wendy Field requested the change for 4.26 acres. But neighbors filed a protest petition against the rezoning, which meant it needed a super majority on council to pass. The zoning ...

  • Bouncer attacked women arrested after fight at Rock Hill pizzeria

    ROCK HILL Two women were shackled at the Rock Hill jail after police arrested them when a bar brawl fraught with racial tension resulted in one getting drunk and running from police, and the other one assaulting a bouncer on Tuesday. At about 11:45 p.m., police were sent to Empire Pizza and Bar on Old York Road where they dispersed a crowd of about 75 people who were in the parking lot, ...

  • Challenges filed to city’s S.C. sludge permit

    Two challenges have been filed to South Carolina’s permit, renewed earlier this month, that allows the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Utility Department to spread sewage sludge on 6,400 acres south of Charlotte. Both requests asked that this week the permit be reviewed by the board of the S.C. Department of Health and Environmental Control. The board has 60 days to respond. Sludge spread on ...

  • Man is killed after he lies in front of train

    A Salisbury man died Tuesday after police say he laid down on the tracks in front of an incoming train. Just before 11:30 Tuesday morning, Salisbury emergency personnel responded to a pedestrian accident involving a Norfolk Southern Railroad train between 14th and 15th Streets. Authorities say 66-year-old Hugh Avril Deadwyler walked onto the tracks, then laid down across the tracks. The train ...

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