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  • Big cut to NC wildlife agency would hit close to home for hunters anglers

    N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission Created in 1947, the commission’s mission is to conserve and sustain fish and wildlife. It also enforces the state’s hunting, fishing, trapping and boating laws. It employs biologists, wildlife officers, educators and others. The commission manages 2 million acres of public game land; 49 lakes and ponds, including 31 dams; 73 waterfowl impoundments; ...

  • Police search for suspects in restaurant robbery

    Observer staff reports Charlotte-Mecklenburg police Saturday were searching for suspects who robbed a Jack in the Box restaurant in South Charlotte. The robbery occurred at the fast-food location off Arrowood Road early Saturday morning. No one was injured in the incident. Few details about the suspects were immediately ...

  • Police Lincolnton man shot wife in head

    A Lincolnton man is in jail on a murder charge for allegedly shooting his wife in the head. Police were alerted to the homicide Saturday at 12:30 p.m. when the man called 911 and threatened to commit suicide. He told dispatchers that he had just killed his wife, according to a news release from the Lincoln County Sheriff’s Office. Deputies responded to the man’s home at 1243 ...

  • Marijuana found in bathroom at York County jail

    YORK Detention officers found marijuana in a bathroom of the booking area of the York County jail early Thursday morning, according to a sheriff’s office report. The pot was in the bathroom where inmates go through intake, the report states. The drugs were turned into evidence then destroyed. The incident is the second time in a month that marijuana was found inside the ...

  • Duke gets funds to develop diverse scientists

    DURHAM, N.C. Duke University is using a federal grant to launch a program to promote diversity and develop scientific talent in undergraduates and graduate students. The Biosciences Collaborative for Research Engagement is supported by a $1.8 million, five-year grant from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences. Sherilynn Black, director of Duke's office of biomedical graduate ...


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Movie Review

The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (Extended Edition) [DVD]

The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (Extended Edition) [DVD]

Unlike The Fellowship of the Ring, which opened with an information-packed prologue and then slowly eased itself into an extensive and leisurely introduction to all the major characters in the film, The Two Towers, the second installment of Peter Jacksons gloriously ambitious adaptation of J.R.R. Tolkiens sprawling fantasy epic The Lord of the Rings, dives right into the acti ... ...

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  • 3 motorcyclists die in Myrtle Beach wrecks

    MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. Authorities say the second biker weekend in May along the Grand Strand is off to a deadly start with three deaths in wrecks in two days. Investigators say a man and his female passenger have been killed after he lost control of his motorcycle in Myrtle Beach and crashed into a car. The wreck happened around 6:30 p.m. Friday on U.S. 17 Business. The identities of the victims ...

  • Hilton Head balks at $1 million sailing center

    HILTON HEAD ISLAND, S.C. Hilton Head Island Town Council no longer supports building a sailing and rowing center on the island after the cost of the facility increased by about 30 percent to nearly $1 million. The Island Packet of Hilton Head reports ( http://bit.ly/10Slsns) that council members approved $700,000 for the center that would have a floating dock that could be used for fishing, ...

  • Holly Hill officer hurt during chase down I-26

    http://bit.ly/10rBSYq ) that officer Tony Muir lost control of his cruiser around 1 a.m. Friday after the car he was chasing blew its engine, spraying the patrolman's windshield with oil and making the pavement ...

  • Deputies find moonshine still in Thomasville home

    THOMASVILLE, N.C. (AP) -- Davidson County deputies say they found a still and 88 quarts of moonshine along with drugs and guns when they raided a Thomasville ...

  • Bear struck and killed on I-40 near Winston-Salem

    Police said the bear was found around 6 a.m. Saturday near exit 188 in Clemmons. The vehicle that struck the animal did not stop. Wildlife officials took the bear's ...

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