February 13, 2012
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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Jerry Woolard, 51, is wanted by Greensboro police on charges of forgery and identity theft.Woolard is white, 6 feet tall and weighs 190 pounds, police said. He has brown eyes and hair.His last known address is 1901 Martin Luther King Jr. Drive
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DURHAM (AP) — A judge has delayed a special inquiry on whether to permanently remove Durham County District Attorney Tracey Cline.Superior Court Judge Robert Hobgood granted the delay after Cline said she had been sick for a week and had been unable...
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ARDEN (AP) — Some Greenpeace protesters have climbed a smokestack that towers over a power plant near Asheville.Progress Energy spokesman Scott Sutton says a handful of protesters scaled the column at the Asheville Power Plant in Arden on Monday mor...
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ASHEBORO — Authorities say they hope crews can complete the job early Monday of bringing a wildfire under control in the Uwharrie National Forest, northeast of Charlotte. As of late Sunday night, the fire had burned about 75 acres in the forest. The...
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MEBANE — Two Orange County teens died Saturday after their car ran off a gravel portion of Buckhorn Road and hit a tree, state troopers said.Samantha Faith Tilley, 16, of Hillsborough and Catherine Elizabeth Shivers, 19, of Efland died in the crash......
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HATTERAS (AP) — Migrating water birds that find refuge on North Carolina's Outer Banks are not coming this year, in part because of damage from Hurricane Irene.
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RALEIGH (AP) — One of the first Democrats to announce his bid for governor is involved in a protracted and messy divorce filled with nasty accusations.
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RALEIGH (AP) — A Charlotte man stuck with a $14,000 hospital bill he calls inflated and unreasonable wants North Carolina's Supreme Court to rule that courts are open to decide fairness.
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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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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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It’s 2005, two years after doctors first found Colleen McGuire’s cancer. At home in her bed, hours before her next chemotherapy treatment, Colleen tells her husband that she’s done. But he must go on, and she insists, love again.The...
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February 12, 2012
RALEIGH — When Rep. Dale Folwell worked on controversial topics such as workers’ compensation reform and immigration policy last year, he aggravated more than a few constituents.“It was a very volatile year for me as an elected official......
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HIGH POINT — Ellen “Lennie” Gerber, 76, and Pearl Berlin, 87, have a routine. At 8 a.m., Pearl brings Lennie her breakfast — a bowl of cereal — to the chair in the study overlooking the backyard forest and lake.
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WASHINGTON (AP) -- Conservatives said Sunday the flap surrounding President Barack Obama's birth control mandate was far from over, with Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell saying he'll push to overturn the requirement because it was another example...
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RALEIGH — The case of a man who was stuck with a $14,419 bill he calls inflated and unreasonable after three days of care in a Charlotte hospital is going to be heard by the North Carolina Supreme Court. The case, scheduled today, is upsetting offic...
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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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REIDSVILLE — A fund has been set up for the children of Douglas Troy French and LaDonna French, the couple killed during a home invasion last weekend.An account for Whitley French and Hunter French has been established to assist in their health, edu...
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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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The sun appears to be setting on the era of high-dollar tobacco manufacturing jobs in Winston-Salem.It shouldn't be shocking news to the community that R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co.'s local workforce is shrinking yet again. The company has announced 19 job cu...
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RALEIGH — A man convicted of child abuse 13 months ago was arrested early Saturday after neighbors found his 2-year-old daughter walking in the street in a dirty diaper and the front door of his home was left open.
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