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  • Legendary NC prep coach Jack Holley dies at 74

    TEACHEY, N.C. The winningest prep football coach in North Carolina history has died. Dean Vinson of Padgett Funeral Home in Wallace says Coach Jack Holley died Monday at his home in Teachey. He was 74. Holley had 412 victories in nearly five decades of coaching at several High Schools, including Wallace-Rose Hill, South Columbus and Tabor City. He won a private-schools state title at Harrells ...

  • Char-Meck Schools deputy is finalist for Wake superintendent

    Ann Clark, deputy superintendent of Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools, is one of three finalists for Wake County superintendent, the Wake board announced Tuesday. She will meet the public in Raleigh next week. A year ago, Clark was one of three finalists for the superintendent’s job at CMS. The board instead hired Heath Morrison from Reno, Nev., and he promoted Clark from chief academic officer to ...

  • NC lawmakers donning hats bow ties playing ball

    Wednesday also marks the annual "Brims and Bows" day at the Legislative Building, where lawmakers, staff and other participants in the legislative process wear hats or bow ...

  • Feds open special inspection into NC nuke plant

    RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) -- Federal regulators are launching a special inspection of a nuclear power plant outside North Carolina's capital city that was forced to shut down last ...

  • Raleigh to get new fire station

    Raleigh City Council has awarded a contract capped at $2.7 million to Chapel Hill-based Resolute Building Inc. to construct Fire Station 29 at 12117 Leesville Rd. Work is scheduled to begin this summer with completion in approximately 10 months, according to the city. The 10,000-square-foot station will house Raleigh's Engine Company 29. The design calls for three apparatus bays, ...


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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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  • Raleighs outgoing City Manager wants to add 40 workers

    J. Russell Allen wants to increase spending by nearly 5 percent to $705 million in a new fiscal 2014 budget that gives existing workers a 3 percent merit bump and adds 40 new employees to the payroll. Allen presented his proposals to City Council Council on Tuesday. On April 17, the Raleigh City Council ...

  • CIS to triple its office space in Morrisville

    When life science consulting firm Compliance Implementation Services moves into its new office next year in the new Perimeter Two office building in Morrisville, the move will represent a nearly tripling of the company's operations in the Triangle. Compliance Implementation Services, or CIS, was one of three companies that ...

  • N.C.s Medicaid shortfall increased by $85 million

    Aldona Wos blamed the previous administration's forecasting models, which apparently did not properly calculate how much Medicaid would cost the state. The shortfall for this year will now come to an estimated $333 million. On May 2, state ...

  • Seven subjects China does not want Duke to teach

    Chinese leadership has reportedly listed seven topics that may not be discussed in university classrooms there. This calls into question the academic freedom ...

  • In Durham women rule says NerdWallet

    Bull City has netted another number one ranking, this time as the number one best city for women in the workforce. Specifically, the Durham-Chapel Hill metro ranked number one in the "medium cities" category in the ...

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