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  • Polling for 28 seats of NC Hills Autonomous Council underway in Assam

    Voting is on for 28 seats of the North Cachar Hills Autonomous Council in Assam today. Over 1,21,000 voters are eligible to seal the political fate of 138 candidates. The Congress has fielded 28 candidates. The BJP has its candidates in ten constituencies. Nineteen former insurgent leaders are also in the poll fray. Meanwhile, security has been intensified across Dima Hasao District to ...

  • Two Tar Heels top ACC baseball honors

    Chapel Hill, N.C. - The national No. 2-ranked University of North Carolina Tar Heels nabbed two top conference honors Monday, just days after claiming the regular season Atlantic Coast Conference championship.Junior third baseman Colin Moran was named ACC Player of the Year and junior Kent Emanuel received ACC Pitcher of the Year honors. The awards are voted on by conference head ...

  • Abaroa defense asks judge to dismiss murder case

    Durham, N.C. - Defense attorneys representing a man on trial for allegedly killing his wife asked a judge Monday to dismiss the case, saying that evidence critical to their case wasn't turned over to them until last week.Raven Abaroa, 33, is charged with first-degree murder in the April 26, 2005, death of Janet Abaroa, who was found stabbed to death in their Durham home eight years ago.The ...

  • NCSU center a jolt for ‘smart grid’

    I mentioned some of them in last week's print edition . Another "smart grid" entity that's helping to keep the industry plowing forward: The FREEDM Center ...

  • No Way Study finds politicians today are more polarized than in the 1900s

    Anyone who watches the Sunday morning news shows probably has guessed this, but a new study shows that politicians are more polarized now than in more than 100 years. Researchers ...


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30 Minutes or Less

30 Minutes or Less

30 Minutes or Less is a hyped-up comedic fictionalization of an actual event that occurred in Erie, Pennsylvania, in 2003, in which a middle-aged pizza delivery man was supposedly forced to rob a bank by a trio of men who latched a homemade timebomb around his neck. The ... ...

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  • Gas prices in Charlotte declining but national costs are on the rise

    Gas prices in the Charlotte area have declined in the past week. The cost of gasoline in the Charlotte market and the Carolinas has declined in the past week, even as the national average crept upward ahead of the Memorial Day holiday, according to the latest data from AAA Carolinas. The average local price today is $3.44 per gallon for regular unleaded, down from $3.46 a week ago. The average ...

  • NC Toxic Free Kids Act of 2013 proposed

    NC Toxic Free Kids Act (House Bill 848) was designed to ensure that children's products are safe by asking manufacturers to disclose the presence of toxic chemicals and requiring that they phase out the use of three Priority Chemicals in children's products. This bi-partisan bill was created by NC Reps Chuck McGrady (R-Henderson) and Pricey Harrison (D-Guilford) to address the fact ...

  • Desegregation march re-created today

    Fifty years ago today, Reginald Hawkins led a march from the Johnson C. Smith University campus to the Mecklenburg County Courthouse, in a demand for an end to segregation in Charlotte. Hawkins is expected to participate this morning in a re-creation of that march, which is considered a watershed event in racial relations for Charlotte. The event, part of the “From Sit-Ins to ...

  • Crash follows east Charlotte bank robbery

    Charlotte-Mecklenburg police are questioning three people in connection with an east Charlotte bank robbery Monday morning that ended with a car crash nearby. Police say a Bank of America branch, on Albemarle Road, was robbed a short time after 9 a.m. According to police, a car fitting the description of the getaway vehicle was spotted later on Albemarle Road. The vehicle then turned onto ...

  • Trial opens for former N.C. legislator

    A former member of the Republican leadership of the N.C. House of Representatives faces trial today for allegedly swindling millions of dollars from two government-funded nonprofit ...

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