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  • 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 ...

  • Police 60-year-old woman killed in 2-car crash

    CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) -- Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police say a 60-year-old woman was killed and two other people were seriously injured in a two-car crash in the northwestern part of the ...


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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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  • Brakes put on proposal to raise speed limit

    Raleigh, N.C. - The state House suddenly halted debate Wednesday on a proposal that would allow the state Department of Transportation to raise the speed limit on some highways to 75 mph. was pushed back to Thursday's floor session after about 10 minutes of debate Wednesday. No explanation for the move was provided.Before debate ended, a bipartisan group of lawmakers expressed opposition to ...

  • Waxhaw mayor faces August court date on DWI charge

    Waxhaw Mayor Daune Gardner faces an Aug. 15 court date on a driving while impaired charge from this month where her blood-alcohol content level was 0.18., more than twice the legal limit, Union County court records show. Town commissioners are considering censuring her at an upcoming meeting. When the board began to discuss potential censure-related expenses at a meeting Tuesday, Gardner ...

  • Latino art event marks its 10th year

    Last weekend, the Mint Museum Uptown showcased a Colombian-born painter whose controversial art responded to political and social unrest in her country in the 1940s and 1950s. On Thursday, local Latino artists will present paintings, photographs, poems, musical pieces and visual performances in reaction to Débora Arango’s work. Arango is one of the pioneers of modern Colombian ...

  • Suspect in Hidden Valley shootout dies of injuries

    Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police on the scene where at least two men were wounded, one seriously, in a shootout during a police drug undercover operation Tuesday afternoon, June 18,2013, in the parking lot of Hidden Valley Elementary School in north Charlotte, police say. Police Chief Rodney Monroe said the shooting broke out after an undercover police officer and an informant had made a drug ...

  • Landfill rule changes OKd by NC Senate panel

    RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) -- North Carolina waste disposal companies could have more room to build landfills in legislation that changes a 2007 law designed to discourage out-of-state trash from being shipped Down ...

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