February 3, 2012
The Greensboro City Council on Tuesday will consider a resolution to oppose a constitutional amendment to ensure that the state recognizes marriage as the union between one man and one woman. Voters will be asked to decide the issue in May.
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ST. LOUIS (AP) — A St. Louis parade welcoming home Iraq War and other post-Sept. 11 veterans was such a hit that at least 10 other cities around the country are considering similar celebrations.
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News: For the second straight year, eighth graders from Raleigh's Al Iman School met with eighth graders from B'Nai Shalom Day School. What is this joining of Muslim and Jewish teens all about? Columnist Jeri Rowe tells the story. Sports: Check out how th...
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RALEIGH (AP) — North Carolina officials say a new rock slide has occurred along a stretch of Interstate 40 already closed by an earlier rock and mud slide just over the Tennessee state line.
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WILMINGTON (AP) — A federal judge in North Carolina ruled Friday that a Raleigh school administrator accused of paying a hit man to behead three witnesses in a terrorism case should be held without bond until her trial.
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WINSTON-SALEM - A man robbed a credit union this morning after giving the teller a threatening note demanding money, police said.Officers were sent to Latina Community Credit Union at 658 Waughtown St. at 9:11 a.m. Friday regarding a bank alarm.Employees...
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GREENSBORO - You might soon be noticing smoke rising from yards, stream banks or storm drains.That's because the city and a Pennsylvania-based contractor are performing sewer testing using non-toxic smoke in various places throughout Greensboro until Marc...
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RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Republican leaders in the state House of Representatives said Friday they're reviewing a complaint by a civil liberties group about prayers in the General Assembly, but that they believe the group is out of touch with the concer...
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Here are some of the week's most interesting photographs, as selected by director of photography Rob Brown. Click here to view them.
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GREEN COVE SPRINGS, Fla. (AP) — A man pleaded guilty Friday in the abduction and slaying of a 7-year-old Florida girl who was found in a landfill.
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NEW YORK (AP) — The Susan G. Komen for the Cure breast-cancer charity today abandoned plans to eliminate grants to Planned Parenthood. The startling decision came after three days of virulent criticism that resounded across the Internet, jeopardizin...
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CHARLOTTE (AP) — A 26-year-old Conover woman is accused by Charlotte-Mecklenburg police of tampering with her 5-month-old daughter's intravenous line at a local hospital. Ladonna Kaye Parlier of Conover is charged with five counts each of felony chi...
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There’s still no word when Syracuse and Pitt will join the ACC, but the conference has announced its scheduling plans for when the Orange and Panthers arrive.The ACC wraps up its winter meetings in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., today, and the future schedu...
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RALEIGH — A new report says crime, suspensions and dropouts were all down in North Carolina public schools during the year that ended last summer.The state Department of Public Instruction said in its annual report on school crime and violence relea...
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Triad motorists should find it easier to navigate through eastern Forsyth County in a few years, thanks to a $30.3 million contract to widen and improve Union Cross Road in the growing industrial area once home to Dell Inc.'s computer-making plant.
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NAACP officials and two Guilford County voters filed a federal lawsuit Thursday to overturn a new redistricting law that leaves almost 43,000 county residents without representation on the county Board of Commissioners.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — In the most impressive surge for the job market since early last year, the United States added 243,000 jobs in January, far more than economists expected. The unemployment rate dropped to 8.3 percent, the lowest in three years.
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WINSTON-SALEM — Two children were found unconscious inside a burning house Thursday night.Winston-Salem police did not identify the children, whom firefighters found inside 1809 Trellis Lane. Both children are in critical condition at Wake Forest Ba...
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KINSTON (AP) — A Greene County couple has been arrested and charged with stealing more than 100 hogs from a farm and selling them to a stockyard.
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The Mid-Eastern Athletic Association men's and women's basketball tournaments are moving from Winston-Salem to Norfolk, Va., ending a four-year run at Joel Coliseum.MEAC Commissioner Dennis Thomas on Wednesday praised the staff at Joel and said the tourna...
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NEW YORK (AP) — Companies hope you'll be gabbing about their Super Bowl ads on Monday morning. But the ultimate score is if those conversations continue throughout the year.
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CHARLOTTE (AP) — Charlotte Roman Catholics, led by Bishop Peter Jugis, are protesting the production of a play they say is insulting to the Virgin Mary.
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FAYETTEVILLE (AP) — A Fayetteville woman has been charged with taking Social Security checks from her daughter's best friend.The Fayetteville Observer reported that 43-year-old Kimberly Louise Kirby is charged with nine counts of forgery and other...
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WINSTON-SALEM — The case of an East Forsyth student whose family made public a conversation he recorded that contains cursing and threats from a teacher and the school's police officer has prompted a huge outpouring of comments and a vigorous debate...
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WINSTON-SALEM — When the New England Patriots and the New York Giants go head to head in the Super Bowl on Sunday, many folks will be watching them on new televisions.Local companies that sell TVs have been seeing a stream of shoppers in their store...
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