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  • Today’s schedule Speed Street ... and a B-29

    Food Lion Speed Street opens its three-day run Thursday, but there are plenty of other racing-related activities and news taking place across the Charlotte region today. That includes the arrival of a World War II-era B-29 Superfortress plane as part of the Commemorative Air Force tour. The B-29 and other planes in the tour are scheduled to fly over Charlotte Motor Speedway prior to the start ...

  • NC police man dressed in stolen officers uniform

    MARSHVILLE, N.C. (AP) -- North Carolina officials are charging a Union County man with parading into a bar dressed in a stolen police uniform, complete with Taser and ...

  • Charlottes Anthony Foxx draws praise at DOT confirmation hearing

    Charlotte Mayor Anthony Foxx appeared before the U.S. Senate's Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee on Wednesday regarding his nomination to become U.S. secretary of transportation. Anthony Foxx, mayor of Charlotte and President Barack Obamas nominee for U.S. secretary of transportation, basked in praise from both sides of the aisle at Wednesdays confirmation hearing, reports Chris ...

  • Charlotte tumbles in economic ranking

    Charlotte tumbled 10 spots in On Number' economic index for May. Charlotte has fallen 10 more spots in On Numbers latest monthly economic index, hitting its lowest ranking so far in 2013. Each month, On Numbers analyzes 18 statistical indicators to provide a snapshot of conditions in the 102 U.S. metropolitan areas with populations above 500,000. Among the factors included in the analysis ...

  • New class chosen for NASCAR Hall of Fame

    The 2014 class of inductees for the NASCAR Hall of Fame has been chosen. Five new inductees have been chosen for the NASCAR Hall of Fame. The 2014 class of members are Tom Flock, Jack Ingram, Dale Jarrett, Maurice Petty and Fireball Roberts, WBTV reports. The group will be inducted in January, marking the fifth class of inductees since the halls opening. Bruton Smith, the billionaire owner of ...


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Meet the Feebles

Meet the Feebles

Every once in a while, a movie comes along that is so grotesque, so perverse, and so daring that it defies criticism. These are the films that laugh in the face of the status quo while they purposely mock all previously cinematic conventions, happily thrusting themselves beyond the boundaries of good taste and accepted morality. More times than not, these movies are simply stupid because they have ... ...

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  • Today NCCapitol Brawley throws down his gavel Senate budget poised to pass

    Raleigh, N.C. - Good morning and welcome to Today @NCCapitol for Thursday, May 23. This is WRAL's roundup of what you need to know about North Carolina state government today. DIX PROPERTY:  The House Judiciary Committee voted unanimously Wednesday afternoon to rewrite Senate-passed legislation in an attempt to resolve the ongoing battle between city and state over the Dorothea Dix ...

  • Governor Raleigh mayor to talk Dix deal Thursday

    Gov. Pat McCrory and Raleigh Mayor Nancy McFarlane will come together Thursday morning to discuss the ongoing wrangling in the General Assembly over the original deal to lease the Dorothea Dix campus to the city.Details of the pair's 9:30 a.m. news conference have not been released, but the meeting comes less than 24 hours after a Hose committee voted to rewrite Senate-passed legislation ...

  • Storms later today then cool and nice for weekend

    The overnight thunderstorms and the showers that fell during part of Thursday morning’s commute will serve as the warm-up for additional stormy weather later in the day, forecasters say. The precipitation could pose a threat to pole night activities Thursday at Charlotte Motor Speedway, and to the opening day of Food Lion Speed Street in Charlotte’s uptown. But a strong cold front ...

  • No injuries in south Iredell house fire

    MOUNT MOURNE -- Fire officials are working to determine what caused the two-alarm fire that destroyed a house in southern Iredell County on Wednesday evening. No injuries were reported in the blaze, which was battled by crews from eight fire departments, officials say. The fire was reported shortly before 5 p.m. in the 200 block of Eastport Lane, between Interstate 77 and N.C. 115. That is ...

  • Protesters expected at Chiquita’s annual meeting Thursday

    Chiquita Brands International is scheduled to hold its annual shareholders meeting Thursday morning in uptown Charlotte, and a group of activists say they plan to protest the country’s involvement in Colombia. The company’s shareholders will gather at Chiquita’s headquarters at the NASCAR Plaza office tower, at Stonewall and Caldwell streets. A group called Witness for Peace said activists ...

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