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  • Appeals Court OKs suit to get back gambling losses

    COLUMBIA, S.C. A lawyer says a state Court of Appeals ruling clears the way for gamblers to sue for money they lose by playing illegal gambling machines. The court ruled Lauren Proctor could go forward with her lawsuit against two Columbia restaurants where she lost nearly $700,000 from 1999 to 2005. The judges say state law allows people to get back money they gambled away to discourage ...

  • Police investigating fatal east Charlotte shooting

    Charlotte-Mecklenburg police are investigating a fatal shooting in east Charlotte that happened early Saturday. Police found Adam Shawn Santiago, 25, in the 8500 block of Filbert Lane with an apparent gunshot wound. They responded to a call about a shooting about 1:12 a.m., according to a release from the police department, and Santiago was pronounced dead at the scene. Police said Santiago ...

  • Man girl killed on tractor in Wayne County

    MOUNT OLIVE, N.C. State troopers say a man and a 5-year-old girl have died after the tractor they were on was struck by a truck in Wayne County. The Highway Patrol says 48-year-old Terry Lee was driving the tractor around 9:15 p.m. Friday on a rural road near Mount Olive when the truck hit it from behind. Authorities say Lee died at the scene, while Kelsey Davison died a short time later at ...

  • 2 charged with murder in Rocky Mount shooting

    Authorities say 25-year-old Tyrone Foreman and 24-year-old Jermale Avent were arrested Thursday are charged with murder and attempted armed robbery. Both are being held in the Edgecombe County jail without bond and it wasn't known if they had ...

  • Drowned girls mom on probation in 2nd drowning

    JACKSONVILLE, N.C. (AP) -- Investigators say the mother of a 20-month-old girl who drowned last weekend in Jacksonville is on probation after a child she was taking care of drowned in ...


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The Adventures of Tintin

The Adventures of Tintin

Following in the footsteps of his former protg Robert Zemeckis, who hasnt directed a live actor on film since Tom Hanks talked to a volleyball in Cast Away (2000), Steven Spielberg has ventured into the world of 3D performance capture CGI with The Adventures ... ...

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  • Salmonella outbreak from NC hotel sickens 51

    Already, 51 people who ate since May 1 at the Holiday Inn Bordeaux's banquet facilities along with its cafe and sports bar have been sickened with five of them becoming ill enough to be hospitalized, health officials ...

  • Victims Marines failed to safeguard water supply

    CAMP LEJEUNE, N.C. -; A simple test could have alerted officials that the drinking water at Camp Lejeune was contaminated, long before authorities determined that as many as a million Marines and their families were exposed to a witch's brew of cancer-causing ...

  • After nearly 30 years Camp Lejeune coming clean

    A simple test could have alerted officials that the drinking water at Camp Lejeune was contaminated, long before authorities determined that as many as a million Marines and their families were exposed to a witch's brew of cancer-causing ...

  • Marine daughter seeks dignity for `Devil Dog pups

    Federal health officials have determined that water contamination at Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune exceeded safe levels as far back as August 1953, four years earlier than previous ...

  • Police Durham NH ‘Good Samaritan’ Was Drunk Ran Over Pedestrian

    DURHAM, N.H. (AP) -- New Hampshire police say a motorist who presented herself as a good Samaritan who drove an injured pedestrian to the hospital is the same person who caused the injuries. Durham police say 38-year-old Michelle Blain of Barrington drove an injured University of New Hampshire student to a hospital Thursday night and explained that she’d happened upon the injured ...

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