February 10, 2012
CHAPEL HILL — Amid chants of protest from about 100 students, the UNC Board of Governors this morning approved President Tom Ross' proposal for tuition and fee hikes over the next two years.Ross' plan would raise tuition by an average of 8.8 percent...
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REIDSVILLE — A 46-year-old Reidsville police officer died Wednesday, city officials said in a news release .Lesley “Lee” Francis Edmonds II, 46, died of apparent natural causes, Maj. Abner Bullins of the Rockingham County Sheriff’s...
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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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REIDSVILLE — A Schewels employee has been charged in connection with the theft of about $237,000 worth of electronics.Reidsville police said Toby Sean Dishmon, 36, of 87 Whitestone Drive in Ruffin was charged with larceny of employee. His bond was s...
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Former players Kenny Dennard of Duke, Kenny Smith of North Carolina, Todd Fuller of N.C. State and Randolph Childress of Wake Forest will be among those honored in the 2012 class of ACC Men's Basketball Tournament Legends in Atlanta next month.
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NEW YORK (AP) — On a normal day, 4 billion shares of stock change hands on the New York Stock Exchange. One in 10 belongs to a single company. It's not McDonald's or IBM, both of which have been on a tear.
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APEX — Keith Adams says he simply wanted to reclaim more than 30 of his paintings that were inside Bistro 155, a restaurant that had recently closed.
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A former Raleigh resident accused of kidnapping a 3-week-old girl from Harlem Hospital in 1987, then raising the child as her own, is expected to plead guilty to charges in New York federal court today.Ann Pettway is due in Manhattan Federal Court to ente...
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CHAPEL HILL -- UNC Chancellor Holden Thorp has recommended against a proposal to implement a gender--neutral pilot housing program at the university.
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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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FAYETTEVILLE — The two people accused in the 2009 slaying of 5-year-old Shaniya Davis pleaded not guilty to charges in separate appearances in Superior Court on Thursday.Mario Andrette McNeil, 31, and Shaniya's mother, Antoniette Davis, 27, are each...
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GREENSBORO — A federal judge could undo a controversial Guilford County redistricting law as soon as next week.Judge William L. Osteen Jr. today set a date to consider a preliminary injunction against the law. The matter will come before him Feb. 17...
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GREENSBORO — The Greensboro Partnership, the city’s chief economic and community development organization, has a new to-do list. And it’s a long one, running to more than 80 items to be tackled in the coming years.They range from the sim...
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February 9, 2012
GREENSBORO — The city's Parks and Recreation Commission voted 6-2 to support a law that will ban concealed handguns in certain city park facilities, Director Greg Jackson said today.Last year, a new state law went into effect that expanded the numbe...
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CHAPEL HILL — A University of North Carolina system committee today approved President Tom Ross’ recommendations for tuition and fee increases by nearly 9 percent next year.The UNC Board of Governors’ budget and finance committee voted 5...
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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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CHARLOTTE — Frequent fliers at Charlotte Douglas International Airport could soon get through security a little faster, as the Transportation Safety Administration rolls out its PreCheck expedited screening program in Charlotte.
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ARCHDALE -- Thomas Built Buses Inc. is stepping up production and adding 50 jobs companywide, the company said Wednesday.Kelley Platt, president and chief executive, said that Thomas Built Buses had exhausted its list of employees who had been recalled to...
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GREENSBORO — Greensboro police and about 40 ROTC students from Page High School will patrol several local parking lots Saturday.Police and students will be looking for unlocked vehicles or ones with valuables in plain sight, then will tell drivers h...
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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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The deadline to claim prizes for 11 of the state's instant scratch-off games is Feb. 16.The games are: Hot $50’s Black Pearls, Hot $100’s, Triple Tripler, $50,000 Jackpot, Ruby Red 7’s, $500,000 Anniversary Cash, Match 3 Tripler, Cash Bo...
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