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Foxx confirmation hearing set for Wednesday
Charlotte Mayor Anthony Foxx is introduced by U.S. President Barack Obama as the nominee for Secretary of Transportation at the White House April 29, 2013 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty ...
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Shanahan suspends practicing law while hes in office
RALEIGH Department of Crime Control and Public Safety Secretary Kieran Shanahan will no longer practice law on the side while he holds public office, his former law firm announced Tuesday afternoon. He has transitioned out of his practice at the law firm he started in 2001, and will be on a temporary leave of absence from that firm and from practicing law at all. The announcement came after ...
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NC public safety chief steps down from law firm
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) -- The head of the North Carolina Department of Public Safety is taking a temporary leave of absence from his law firm following questions about potential conflicts of ...
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NC agency seeks injunction in coal ash case
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) -- A state environmental agency is seeking a court injunction against Duke Energy over groundwater that may have been contaminated by coal ash from a Charlotte-area power ...
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NC attorney general warns of disaster relief scams
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) -- North Carolina's attorney general wants to be sure that people who choose to donate money to help with tornado relief in Oklahoma aren't being taken by scam artists ...
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Buyer eyeing downtown Raleigh retail and parking spaces
Raleigh City Council has scheduled a June 4 public hearing on the sale of two retail spaces and parking areas in the city's Blount Street parking deck to Edison Land LLC. The appraised value of the property is $627,627. Edison Land has agreed to pay the city $12,500 in cash in exchange for an option to buy the property at the appraised value. The hearing will be held at 7 p.m. in the ...
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NetApp to slash workforce by 900
NetApp (Nasdaq: NTAP) confirmed it is reducing its workforce by about 900 employees. Details on the impact to its Research Triangle Park were not immediately available. The confirmation came during the release of the ...
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Closing arguments heard in Shaniya Davis Case
Fayetteville, N.C. - Prosecutors making closing arguments Tuesday in their case against a Fayetteville man accusing of raping and killing a 5-year-old girl called on the jury to convict based on "strong circumstantial evidence" against the defendant.In his 90-minute closing, Cumberland County District Attorney Billy West exhorted jurors to find Mario Andrette McNeill guilty of rape and ...
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N.C. sues Duke for polluting Charlotte drinking water
North Carolina has sued Duke Energy for polluting Mountain Island Lake, Charlotte’s major water source, with contaminants from its coal ash lagoons. The N.C. Division of Water Quality added its claims about Mountain Island to an existing lawsuit filed in March. That litigation asked for a court injunction against a Duke subsidiary over coal-ash pollution at an Asheville power plant. It ...
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Taylorsville teacher charged with indecent liberties with student
A teacher in Alexander County has been suspended for alleged inappropriate behavior with her student. Nikki Setzer Icard, a math teacher at Alexander Central High School, is charged with indecent liberties with an 18-year-old male student. The school suspended Icard without pay, pending the outcome of the investigation. Icard graduated from the school herself in 2001. She started teaching ...
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Youth collage art competition announced
Call all young artists! In anticipation of the Labor Day grand opening of the 5.2-acre Romare Bearden Park in Uptown Charlotte, Mecklenburg Park and Recreation is hosting a Youth Collage Art Competition. The competition, open to children ages 1 to 18, is designed to celebrate the life of the internationally renowned artist while encouraging an expression of his legacy through the creation of ...
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NC man accused of trying to scam insurance company
LINCOLNTON, N.C. (AP) -- Authorities accuse a Lincoln County of filing a fake report of a stolen motorcycle and trailer to get money from an insurance ...
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Athleta four other retailers coming to Crabtree Valley Mall
Athleta, the women's fitness apparel competitor to LuLuLemon, has signed a deal to open a second store location in the Triangle at Crabtree Valley Mall in Raleigh. Athleta opened its first store in North Carolina at Durham's Streets at Southpoint mall in June of ...
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Sanford hospital gets nod for $13M project
Central Carolina Hospital in Sanford has received conditional approval from the state to expand its emergency department. The state, through ...
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The banks with the most Triangle branches
Despite the growth of mobile and other forms of electronic banking, the traditional brick-and-mortar branch office remains a key part of the industry. Regulators, both state and federal, methodically keep tabs of branch numbers and whether they are declining or growing. That counting continues even as industry experts debate the future of the branch, with its smiling tellers and coffee pot, ...
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Tudor Doeren takes different rivalry approach than Fedora
Caulton Tudor is a four-time winner of the N.C. Sports Writer of the Year award, a two-time president of the Atlantic Coast Sports Media Association and a member of the U.S. Basketball Writers Hall of ...
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NCSU UNC confident heading into ACC Tournament
Durham, N.C. - A day before their teams take the field in the 2013 ACC Baseball Tournament, North Carolina's Mike Fox and North Carolina State's Elliot Avent expressed confidence Tuesday about their chances to take home the title.In separate interviews with Mark Thomas and Mike Maniscalco on 620 The Buzz, both coaches noted the importance of playing well in tournament ...
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F-V teacher earns national award
Fuquay-Varina, N.C. - A Fuquay-Varina High School teacher was named Physical Education Teacher of the Year by the National Association for Sport and Physical Education (NASPE).Charla Tedder has taught phys ed at Fuquay-Varina for 12 years and has been an educator for 30. She topped four other regional winners for the national award."I teach from my heart every day. I want my students ...
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Site for 180-foot Weddington water tower selected
Union County commissioners have chosen a site on Hemby Road in Weddington for a 180-foot water tower. Commissioners unanimously approved the plan Monday night, picking that site over a Weddington-Matthews Road location. The board also directed the county public works department to seek zoning approval from Weddington to build the tower. On May 13, Weddingtons board passed a preliminary ...
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Deputies Lincoln man filed phony theft claim
Lincoln County authorities have accused William Chatham III, of Vale, with insurance fraud. They say he filed a fake report that a motorcycle and trailer were stolen last October. (Lincoln County Sheriff's Office ...
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NC Democratic chair questioned over Las Vegas trip
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) -- North Carolina Democratic Party chairman Randy Voller (VOH'-lur) is facing questions about credit card charges made during a March trip to a Las Vegas casino to watch basketball games with old college ...
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Charlotte buzzes with Hornets return tonight
Call it a Snapback revolution . As in the retro-cool of Charlotte Hornets gear stirring sentiment as much as anything in recent years. Burying the Bobcats brand a decade after it arrived reminds me of a conversation I had with the then-newly hired marketing and public-relations ...
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Nostalgic Coca-Cola mural uncovered in Durham
Durham has a not-exactly-new addition - a recently uncovered Coca-Cola mural on East Main Street. A team of workers, armed with fingernail files, have been delicately chipping away plaster for years, and their work is almost complete. The owner of the three-story building initially discovered the mural while stripping plaster off of the walls during the building's renovation. The image is ...
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The biggest social-media mistake youre probably making
A common mistake companies make in their social-media campaigns is putting the efforts on an island, all alone, to sink or swim alone. When it comes to using social media for your business, there are a lot of mistakes that most people know to avoid - bad-mouthing a customer, deleting a critical comment or posting risqu pictures on the official company Twitter account, to name a few. But what ...
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Passions high around school voucher bill
The crowd precluded any committee debate or a vote on the bill, as legislators used the limited time to hear from the public - those in favor and against the Opportunity Scholarship ActThe committee did roll ...
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Middle and high school students becoming more isolated?
While the number of middle and high school students admitting to being bullied in surveys has gone up, the number of students actually reporting abuse is decreasing, suggesting that students may be withdrawing into themselves.
Students at Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools get polled every two years by health officials in order to keep a watch on activities that might put them at risk, such as drug abuse, alcohol use, anti-social behavior and smoking. Read more
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