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  • Duke soccer player rides out storm in Oklahoma

    MOORE, Okla. - Ana Hunt, a rising junior pre-Med student at Duke University is home for the summer, in Moore, Okla. with her family. That's where she spent seven terrifying minutes inside a safe room Monday afternoon as an EF-5 tornado swept through her hometown, killing 24 people and injuring hundreds of others.Hunt was at home with her mother, Dorene, when the storm ...

  • Despite arrests North Hills community still rattled after murder

    Raleigh, N.C. - Despite the arrests of three people suspected in the slaying of a woman in her apartment last week, those who live and work in the North Hills area of Raleigh say they are still rattled by what appears to be a random crime motivated by burglary.Melissa Dawn Huggins-Jones, 30, was found dead from a blunt force trauma injury in her home at Allister North Hills Apartments on May 14 ...

  • CMPD Secret Service bust ATM fraud ring

    Local and federal authorities announced Thursday they’ve broken up an organized crime ring that stole checkbooks from cars and homes and later used the checks to make fraudulent deposits into the suspects’ personal bank accounts. Over the past two weeks Charlotte-Mecklenburg police and U.S. Secret Service agents have charged 10 people with stealing more than $300,000 from more than ...

  • HM to open Carolina Place store

    Another one of Charlotte’s most highly-desired retailers is coming to the region: H&M plans to open a store in Pineville this fall, at Carolina Place mall. The store will be the retailer’s first in the Charlotte market. Fans of the fast-fashion apparel store have looked on with envy as the company opened Raleigh and Winston-Salem locations over the past few years. The store at Carolina ...

  • Inmate escapes from Lincolnton work release program

    Lincolnton authorities were searching for an inmate who escaped from a prison work release program Thursday. Ronald Billings, 38, was last seen at about 2:45 p.m. at a work location in Lincolnton. Billings was serving a seven-year prison sentence at the Lincoln Correctional Center for breaking and entering, forgery and other property crimes. His projected release date is February 2015. He ...


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Movie Review

Return to Horror High [DVD]

Return to Horror High [DVD]

You have to give credit to Bill Froehlichs Return to Horror High for its sheer ambition, even if it never really comes together. Made in 1987, at the teetering peak of the 1980s cycle of teen horror movies, Return to Horror High is not, as its title might s ... ...

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  • NewDominion Bank finishes $10 million capital raise

    NewDominion Bank CEO John Hipp had never had to go out and raise capital before in his 40-year career. But he was brought in to the Charlotte bank nearly three years ago to do just that. Regulators had just issued an order to raise capital levels and otherwise fix up a bank teetering under the weight of development loans that went bad in the mortgage crisis. For a while, Hipp talked to the ...

  • Lawsuit over Md.s ACC exit goes before Md. court

    UPPER MARLBORO, Md. (AP) -- A lawyer for the University of Maryland told a judge that the penalty the university is being told to pay to withdraw from the Atlantic Coast Conference is "crippling" and ...

  • Report Duke lacks cash to finish renovations

    reported Thursday that despite an $80 million pledge from the Duke Endowment - an endowment in Charlotte not affiliated with the university - the university is forced to re-evaluate renovation projects at Baldwin Auditorium, West Union Building and Page ...

  • N.C. Senate OKs $20.5B budget

    The $20.5 billion spending plan passed 33 to 17 by the North Carolina Senate on Thursday includes a $770 million tax cut over the next two fiscal years. Unexplained, however, are exactly how the cuts will be made. Senate leaders earlier unveiled a tax reform package that reduced personal and corporate rates over three years. It also cut the sales tax but applied it to a large number of ...

  • UNC earns mercy-rule win over Miami in ACC tourney

    POST No. 1 North Carolina earned an eight inning mercy rule win over No. 8 Miami Thursday in ACC Tournament play at the Durham Bulls Athletic Park. Cody Stubbs hit the game-ending RBI double to put Colin Moran over the plate for the 10-0 win.Stubbs had a team high four hits, one run and three runs batted in in his five at bats. North Carolina starting pitcher Kent Emanuel pitched all eight ...

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