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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 ...

  • North Carolina researchers create genome map for what we eat

    CHAPEL HILL, N.C. -Do your kids love chocolate milk? It might have more calories on average than you thought.Same goes for soda.Until now, the only way to find out what people in the United States eat and how many calories they consume has been government data, which can lag behind the rapidly expanding and changing food marketplace.Researchers from the University of North Carolina at Chapel ...

  • Tornadoes level homes in Oklahoma hit other states

    EDMOND, Okla. - One of several tornadoes that touched down Sunday in Oklahoma turned homes in a trailer park near Oklahoma City into splinters and rubble and sent frightened residents along a 100-mile corridor scurrying for shelter. The tornadoes that touched down in Oklahoma, Kansas and Iowa were part of a massive, northeastward-moving storm system that stretched from Texas to Minnesota. At ...

  • Tornado levels homes in Oklahoma City trailer park

    People survey damage from a tornado that hit Edmond, Okla., on Sunday, May 19, 2013. A powerful storm system rumbled through the Plains and upper Midwest on Sunday, spawning tornadoes that damaged roofs and structures near Oklahoma City and kicked up debris in Wichita, ...

  • DU Pioneers take on North Carolina in mens lacrosse NCAA quarterfinal

    Denver University lacrosse player, Wesley Berg. (Denver Post file) Sunday's NCAA Tournament quarterfinal game against North Carolina in Indianapolis marks the University of Denver men's lacrosse team's third consecutive trip to the elite eight. Only Notre Dame and Duke had accomplished that feat. "You're so in the moment, in the current year, and that stuff sounds nice, ...


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Movie Review

The Postman (Il Postino)

Michael Radford's "The Postman (Il Postino)" is the beautiful and moving story of an unlikely friendship between a simple man and a profound poet. The man, Mario Ruppolo (brought to life with wonderful charm and feeling by the late Massimo Troisi) is a postman on a small Italian island in the early 1950s. The island is so small and backward that everyone seems to be either an illiterate fisherman ... ...

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  • 8 arrested at Enloe High School in Raleigh www.privateofficer.com

    Eight people were arrested at Enloe High School in Raleigh Thursday, the same day the principal alerted parents of an increase in security due to year-end pranks. Enloe increased on campus security after administration heard rumors of students planning pranks for Thursday. Enloe Principal Scott Lyons stated in a recorded message to parents that the administration of the school obtained ...

  • Raleigh officer involved crash

    An officer involved crash caused downed power lines and traffic signals Saturday evening, according to the Raleigh Police Department. An SUV and a car collided at the intersection of Milburnie Road and Raleigh Blvd. No one was seriously hurt.The crash is under ...

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