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  • Tropical Storm Barry headsforms off Mexican coast

    This NOAA satellite image taken Wednesday, June 19, 2013 at 10:45 AM EDT shows tropical wave over the Lesser Antilles with light to moderate rain and thunderstorms. Fair weather across the remainder of the Caribbean with a chance of isolated afternoon ...

  • Party could be over at North Raleigh mansion

    RALEIGH The first summertime event at a North Raleigh mansion this year was billed as an “Eyes Wide Shut Party,” offering promises of bikini-clad women in masks, according to unhappy neighbors. As accounts of that pool party and others at the 15,890-square-foot, 20-room house circulate beyond the suburban Wake County cul-de-sac at the center of an unusual neighborhood battle, many eyes are ...

  • Racial Justice Act Repealed By North Carolina Lawmakers

    Gov. Pat McCrory holds his first news conference Monday, January 7, 2013, in Raleigh, North Carolina. In one of his first acts as governor, McCrory issued an executive order to repeal the nonpartisan judicial nominating commission established by Perdue. (Takaaki Iwabu/Raleigh News & Observer/MCT via Getty ...

  • Union protests leaders in Raleigh

    The union that represents City of Charlotte workers is protesting the General Assembly’s attempts to wrest control of Charlotte Douglas International Airport from the city by putting it under the control of a regional authority. At a news conference outside the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Government Center Wednesday night, union official Steve Bader said union members intend to send a message ...

  • North Carolina governor signs law aimed at restarting executions

    North Carolina Republican gubernatorial candidate, former Charlotte Mayor Pat McCrory meets supporters outside Myers Park Traditional Elementary school during the U.S. presidential election in Charlotte, North Carolina November 6, ...


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Movie Review

Elf

Elf

Will Ferrells greatest gift as a comedic actor is his ability to convey a complete lack of self-awareness. All of his best characters from his seven-year run on Saturday Night Live, from his clueless Spartan cheerleader, to his hilarious impersonation of President Bush, have been built largely around either complete navet or personal misdirection. His characters are always dorks who think ... ...

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  • The Price of Protection Who should pay to clean Jordan Lake

    Just In : Actor James Gandolfini, who won Emmys for his role as Tony Soprano in the HBO series "The Sopranos," has died of an apparent heart attack, according to CNN. He was ...

  • Country diary Middleton-in-Teesdale Co Durham On the trail of the double dumplings

    plants we'd really come to see were "double dumplings", the old dales name for globe flowers that I first became aware of as a child, when collecting picture cards was a popular pastime. In 1959, Brooke Bond tea distributed a series ...

  • Tenn. man arrested in stop on I-40

    Morrisville, N.C. - The North Carolina State Highway Patrol suspected a Tennessee man was transporting liquid methamphetamine near Raleigh-Durham International Airport Wednesday morning after a search of his car yielded a gallon jug of a clear liquid.Highway Patrol spokesman 1st Sgt. Jeff Gordon said a state trooper stopped Michael Edwards, 29, of Johnson City, Tenn., for a seatbelt violation ...

  • Teen charged in fatal Rocky Mount wreck

    Rocky Mount, N.C. - A 16-year-old Nash County girl faces charges in connection with a wreck last week that killed a Rocky Mount truck driver.Jordan Anne Thomas, of 208 Regency Drive, Nashville, was charged Tuesday with misdemeanor death by motor vehicle and failure to yield in the June 10 death of David Warren Stone.Stone, 71, was hauling building materials on U.S. Highway 301 Bypass in Rocky ...

  • Bull Durham turns 25 -- and whats your favorite sports movie

    The other day, I was picking out some movies to give to my nephew, who just graduated from high school and who hinted that he’d like, as a gift from me, some great DVDs for his collection. I was having fun choosing some classics that I thought he’d like . . . a little Hitchcock here, a little Kubrick there . . . and then I thought I should include a sports movie, as he loves sports. ...

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