February 13, 2012
FAYETTEVILLE (AP) — The first evidentiary hearing involving the state's Racial Justice Act is scheduled to continue this week in a Cumberland County courtroom, where prosecutors plan to call four more current or former judges to testify.
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ASHEVILLE (AP) — Two sections of the historic Blue Ridge Parkway in western North Carolina will be closed for roughly two months in order for crews to perform repair work on a pair of tunnels.The National Park Service said the closures will st...
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RALEIGH (AP) — North Carolina's election season is about to begin in earnest with uncertainty about who will run for governor.The candidate filing period begins at noon Monday at the State Board of Elections in Raleigh and all 100 county board offic...
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CHARLOTTE (AP) — A US Airways passenger jet traveling from Charlotte to Charleston, W.Va., has had to turn around and make an emergency landing.
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February 12, 2012
RALEIGH — The case of a teenager who had to untuck her shirt and pull out her bra with her thumb as part of a search for pills at an alternative school in North Carolina is headed to the state Supreme Court.
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LEXINGTON. (AP) — A 25-year-old Lexington man will spend five to seven years in prison after pleading guilty to a Davidson County shooting death that went unsolved for five years.
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MAGGIE VALLEY (AP) — A $1.5 million bid has been made to buy a wild west amusement park in the North Carolina mountains that has been closed for most of the past decade.
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Nic Simpson scored 17 points, leading five N.C. A&T players in double figures in an 85-55 rout of S.C. State on Saturday. A&T (11-15, 6-5 MEAC) used an early 14-2 run to lead 16-5 with 5:55 elapsed. It had a 43-29 advantage after shooting 61.5 per...
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Tanner Smith had 20 points and five assists to help Clemson pull away for a 78-58 victory over Wake Forest on Saturday. Smith hit 8-of-9 from the field, including 3-of-4 from beyond the arc, and the Tigers (12-12, 4-6 ACC) snapped a three-game losing stre...
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Trevis Simpson scored 28 points and Derrell Armstrong's layup with 16 seconds left gave UNCG a come-from-behind 77-76 win over Chattanooga on Saturday night, sweeping the season series for the first time since 2006-07. The Mocs made two field goal attempt...
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February 11, 2012
WINSTON-SALEM (AP) — Wake Forest has added two assistants to its football staff. Coach Jim Grobe said Friday that Jonathan Himebauch will coach the offensive line and Derrick Jackson will be in charge of the defensive line. Himebauch had coached in...
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February 10, 2012
LUMBERTON, N.C. (AP) — U.S. Rep. Mike McIntyre has decided to seek re-election to Congress this year instead of running for North Carolina governor.
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BURLINGTON (AP) — Clinical lab services company Laboratory Corporation of America Holdings reported today that its fourth quarter earnings edged up 3 percent as revenue and expenses both rose.The adjusted earnings topped Wall Street estimates, but t...
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PISGAH FOREST (AP) — The U.S. Forest Service has postponed a 1,200-acre prescribed burn in the Bearpen Mountain area in of the Pisgah Ranger District in the Pisgah National Forest.Fire managers canceled the burn today because of increased humidity l...
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CONOVER (AP) — An 18-year-old has been charged in an ongoing probe of counterfeit cash in Catawba County.The Hickory Daily Record reported today that Devin Andrew Yancey of Conover has been charged in his hometown and in nearby Newton.
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RALEIGH (AP) — A House committee examining whether North Carolina laws should change based on evidence of racial bias in death penalty cases is holding its first meeting.
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RALEIGH (AP) — A group of Civil war re-enactors are donating $10,000 so that a coat worn by a North Carolina officer wounded at the Battle of Gettysburg can be preserved.
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February 9, 2012
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (AP) — Wake Forest coach Jeff Bzdelik felt like he was watching a rerun of a horror movie Wednesday night.The second-year boss of the Demon Deacons had just witnessed his club get blown out by No. 19 Virginia 68-44, playing poor...
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FAYETTEVILLE (AP) — A statistician testifying at a hearing about North Carolina's Racial Justice Act says qualified black and white jurors have been seated on capital murder trials at about the same rate.
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RALEIGH (AP) — If a leading candidate fails to get more than 40 percent of the vote in a North Carolina primary election race this May, when is the runoff?It depends.
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SHELBY (AP) — The Cleveland County coroner says a man found dead in his jail cell days after being convicted of child abuse died of natural causes.Coroner Dwight Tessneer says the results of an autopsy by the Mecklenburg County Medical Examiner's Of...
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CHARLOTTE (AP) — Mecklenburg County officials are discussing what should be done about a recent surge in reported coyote sightings.
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BURLINGTON (AP) — Some residents in Burlington are complaining to the city about what they say is a church making some not-so-joyful noise.
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WINSTON-SALEM (AP) — Wake Forest University soon will be providing more space for its upperclassmen.The school's board of trustees has approved a project that calls for two new residence halls on the north side of the Winston-Salem campus.
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RALEIGH (AP) — Disgraced Washington influence-peddler Jack Abramoff is telling a North Carolina audience about the Capitol Hill corruption in which he played a role.The once powerful and notorious lobbyist suggests ways to reform the political syste...
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