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Polling for 28 seats of NC Hills Autonomous Council underway in Assam
Voting is on for 28 seats of the North Cachar Hills Autonomous Council in Assam today. Over 1,21,000 voters are eligible to seal the political fate of 138 candidates. The Congress has fielded 28 candidates. The BJP has its candidates in ten constituencies. Nineteen former insurgent leaders are also in the poll fray. Meanwhile, security has been intensified across Dima Hasao District to ...
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Sleeping Sanford teen wounded in drive-by shooting
Sanford, N.C. - A 14-year-old boy was released from a hospital Monday, one day after being shot while sleeping in his Sanford home.Charles McIver Jr. still has bullet fragments lodged in his ankle, thigh and buttocks, according to his mother, and family members said they believe his older brother was the intended target of the gunman.McIver's brother, Trevor Dion Rader, 22, has a lengthy ...
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NC public school grant bill lauded by proponents
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) -- Supporters of a bill providing public money to low-income families to attend North Carolina private or religious schools say passing the measure would help give all students the prospect of succeeding in ...
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Man accused of stealing $600000 from Walmart in Carolinas and Georgia
An open door into a small-town storage unit last month raised a window into Robert Michael Milton’s private world. Now the 49-year-old is in Mecklenburg County Jail, accused of masterminding a three-year scheme that stole more than $600,000 from Walmart stores in three states, and put scores of investigators – including one from the Department of Homeland Security – on his ...
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High school graduations begin Tuesday
The first of more than three dozen high school graduation ceremonies in Mecklenburg County takes place Tuesday afternoon, when seniors at Cato Middle College receive diplomas in a 1 p.m. event at Ovens Auditorium in Charlotte. Cato Middle College is a Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools magnet school, based at CPCC’s Cato Campus in northeast Charlotte. More than a dozen other high schools in ...
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Plan to help same-day surgery centers will get more study
RALEIGH A proposal that would have made it easier for physicians to open same-day surgery centers will be deferred for a year while a study committee takes an in-depth look at state and federal regulation of medical facilities. Rep. Mark Hollo, chairman of the state House Health and Human Services Committee, said the original bill was amended to give lawmakers more time to gather information ...
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Swisher Hygiene delays filing quarterly report
Charlotte-based Swisher Hygiene said Monday that it is behind filing required a required quarterly financial report, and in danger of being delisted by the Nasdaq and the Toronto Stock Exchange. The company said it hopes to file its quarterly report later this week. Swisher has been battling a series of financial reporting problems for more than a year, and delayed filing most of its quarterly ...
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CATS light rail meeting Tuesday
Charlotte Area Transit System will host two meetings this month, including one Tuesday night, to provide an update on the extension of the light rail line into north Charlotte. Demolition and advanced utility relocation work is scheduled to start within the next month or two, according to CATS officials, and people will see temporary signs and fencing, grading and new retaining walls. At the ...
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Autopsy Wake deputies shot mental patient in back
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) -- An autopsy report says Wake County sheriff's deputies shot an unarmed mental patient four times, including once at point-blank range in the ...
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80-Year-Old North Carolina Educator Why I Am Going to Risk Arrest Today
Moral Mondays . I join ministers, students, teachers, and other concerned citizens at the state capitol in Raleigh because I am deeply concerned about the legislation of this session of the North Carolina General Assembly. In my judgment, many laws and pending laws that will guide public policy and practice are not in the public interest, and in many instances, will have a negative effect on the ...
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Wake manager’s budget $982M no tax hike
David Cooke wants to spend $982.8 million next year in a budget with no tax increase that funds growth in some county departments. Cooke gave his plan for fiscal 2014, which begins June 30, to the Wake commissioners on Monday. Under it, total spending would rise by $44 million, or about 4.7 percent, with education and public safety each getting $9 million of the increase. Some $17 million of ...
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Trimeris buyer Synageva gets FDA nod
in 2011 merged with Lexington, Mass.-based Synageva BioPharma Corp. (Nasdaq: GEVA)? Synageva netted a win today - a "breakthrough therapy" designation from the FDA for the combined company's sebipase alfa, which is a treatment for a deadly pediatric disease. Called LAL, it's an inherited disorder that typically kills infants within the first six months of life. The ...
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Rocky Mount sisters killed in Georgia wreck
Rocky Mount, N.C. - A recent trip to Texas for a wedding and four graduations led to tragedy for a Rocky Mount woman, who now is trying to deal with the loss of two daughters.Marianne Karth was westbound on Interstate 20 between Augusta, Ga., and Atlanta on May 4 when she came upon a line of slowed traffic. Georgia state troopers said a semi-truck hauling cars tried to switch lanes and hit ...
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No tax increase in proposed Wake budget
Raleigh, N.C. - The $982.8 million budget proposal that Wake County Manager David Cooke unveiled Monday would maintain local property taxes at existing levels and stick to funding core services.The budget would increase by $44.3 million, or 4.7 percent, from 2012-13, and the extra money would be split among education, public safety, human services, capital spending and other county ...
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Warrant Raleigh man admitted involvement in political strategists stabbing death
Raleigh, N.C. - The man accused of fatally stabbing an up-and-coming political strategist and injuring her husband at their Raleigh home nearly a month ago was indicted Monday in the case - the same day a search warrant made public shows that he admitted to police his involvement in the crime.Jonathan Wayne Broyhill, 31, is charged with first-degree murder in the April 22 attack on Jamie Kirk ...
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Charlotte high school student has TB other South Mecklenburg students being tested
About 35 South Mecklenburg High School students are being tested for tuberculosis this week after a student there was diagnosed with an active TB case. The diagnosed student is being treated and is under isolation until the threat of contagion has passed, according to Dr. Steve Keener, medical director of the Mecklenburg County Health Department. Treatment with a series of antibiotics will ...
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Cary’s Ply Gem clears final hurdle
Cary-based Ply Gem Holdings, which wants to raise $345 million in an initial public offering, has received its final registration approval from ...
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LexisNexis Cary division upgrades law firm software
The business data company LexisNexis is upgrading its Firm Manager software with a new tool to allow lawyers to share documents with each other and their clients via the Internet, managers said Monday. The new version of Firm Manager includes WatchDox, a file-sharing capability that's similar in concept to the popular Dropbox ...
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Senior housing property sells for $31 million
A Georgia senior housing firm has bought the Manor Village at Preston apartment community in Morrisville for $31 million. The 166-unit community has been renamed as Preston Pointe. It was a unit of Rauls Convalescent Home Inc. of Macon, Ga., that purchased the property from Manor Village Life ...
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NC towns clock heading to museum after 97 years
http://bit.ly/115AHiT ) city officials have scrapped an idea to refurbish a clock attached to the local three-story bank building because it would be too ...
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Lagging sales prompt Lenovo layoffs here
Ray Gorman says can be attributed to a slowing PC industry. With 90 percent of Lenovo's business in the PC arena, the company is feeling the heat of declining numbers, he says. "To help meet these shifts in our industry, achieve our goals and beat market expectations, we need to continue to invest in these high-growth areas, what we call PC Plus, while reducing our expenses and cost ...
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Can Tumblr make Yahoo ‘cool’
Will Yahoo's Tumblr buy make the Internet giant relevant to the Triangle's young and tech-savvy generation? That's something experts such as University of Warwick Business School ...
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Duke University dean with advice for MBA graduates
asked its Associate Dean for Career Management Sheryle Dirks about what MBA graduates should expect in the workforce, and how potential students should think about their careers. Here's an edited version. ...
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Autopsy Mentally ill man shot four times by law enforcement
Raleigh, N.C. - A man with a mental illness who was shot by Wake County sheriff's deputies in March died of multiple gunshot wounds, including one at contact range, according to an autopsy report released Monday.Jonathan Lee Cunningham, 35, was being transported by a deputy to a Winston-Salem psychiatric facility on March 31 when he got into a fight with the deputy, took off in his patrol ...
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DT Cole ready to resurface
was helping the first team in NFL history to make the playoffs with a 7-9 record shock the world by knocking off the reigning Super Bowl champion New Orleans Saints.Now, some 28 months later, Cole is working feverishly to come out of nowhere again."I don't think words can really describe how excited I am to have another opportunity to get out on the football field," said Cole, who ...
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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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