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  • Confederate vets’ graves vandalized in York County

    Officials with a Sons of Confederate Veterans chapter in York County say these are some of the flags that were removed from veterans' graves last week. (Photo courtesy of Thomas ...

  • Speed Street road closings begin Wednesday

    It’s nearly party time in uptown Charlotte, and that means motorists planning to navigate their way through center city will have to contend with street closings as part of the annual Food Lion Speed Street event. Charlotte transportation officials will close a number of uptown streets at 9:30 a.m. Wednesday, with more closures coming Thursday morning. Commuters will get their streets back ...

  • Largest NC school district names 3 finalists

    CARY, N.C. (AP) -- North Carolina's largest school district is picking a superintendent among three finalists from Texas, Virginia Beach, and the state's second-largest school ...

  • AG Roy Cooper Watch out for disaster relief scams

    Roy Cooper issued a statement on Tuesday cautioning people who plan to donate to the Oklahoma tornado relief efforts to make sure they aren't dealing with scam artists. Although the state's consumer protection division hasn't received any complaints about fraudulent fundraising activities in connection to Oklahoma disaster relief, previous natural disasters have elicited scams, ...

  • No property tax hike in proposed Greensboro Rockingham budgets + Market funding remains in Senate budget

    State money for the High Point Market remains virtually unscathed in the Senate's budget proposal. -- The proposed $458 million budget for Greensboro keeps the property tax rate the same, but includes some fee hikes, the News & Record reports. Those include a proposed 3.5 percent increase in water rates and 7.5 percent increase in water rates for those outside city limits. -- In ...


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Zatoichi 2: The Tale of Zatoichi Continues (Zoku Zatoichi Monogatari) [DVD]

In Zatoichi 2: The Tale of Zatoichi Continues (Zoku Zatoichi Monogatari), the titular blind masseur/swordsman, one of the most famous recurring characters in all of Japanese cinema, once again finds himself caught in a series of battles not of his own making. Although essentially peaceful, Zatoichi tends to find himself constantly enmeshed in violence--trouble follows him everywhere ... ...

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  • Charlotte Mayor Anthony Foxx begins DOT confirmation process

    Charlotte Mayor Anthony Foxx begins the confirmation process today for his nomination to be the U.S. secretary of transportation. Charlotte Mayor Anthony Foxx will take the next step toward becoming secretary of the U.S. Department of Transportation today, as he appears before a Senate committee this afternoon for a confirmation hearing on the position. WSOC-TV reports that Foxx will be ...

  • Wreck involving school bus closes Atlantic Avenue in north Raleigh

    Raleigh, N.C. - Raleigh police closed all lanes of Atlantic Avenue between Spring Forest and Millbrook roads in north Raleigh Wednesday morning after a wreck involving a school bus and car. No students were on the bus at the time of wreck, police said. No other information about the cause of the wreck has been released.It wasn't clear when the road would reopen. Drivers should ...

  • NAACP leader educator die in Iredell crash

    A longtime NAACP leader and a veteran educator were killed Tuesday afternoon in a head-on crash in eastern Iredell County, authorities say. The victims were identified as Woody Woodard, 77, president of the Statesville branch of the NAACP; and Brenda Laxton, 65, a teacher assistant at Cool Spring Elementary School. The N.C. Highway Patrol says the crash was reported shortly before 2:30 p.m. on ...

  • Police charge 3 in transplanted NC womans slaying

    RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) -- North Carolina police say they've found no prior connections between a woman killed in her apartment and three people charged with ...

  • What are Nancy Hoffmanns plans for a downtown Greensboro building

    In what she hopes will be a catalytic project for the 300 block of South Elm Street in downtown Greensboro, City Council member Nancy Hoffmann plans to renovate a three-story, 9,400-square-foot historic building into a mixed-use development featuring retail and apartments. Hoffmann purchased the building at 304 S. Elm St. from SunTrust Bank in July 2012 for $275,000, according to public ...

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