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  • 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, ...

  • 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 ...

  • Tropical Storm Barry forms off Mexican coast

    Forecasters say a tropical depression crossing Mexico's Bay of Campeche is getting better organized and is expected to become a tropical storm before making landfall along Mexico's Gulf ...


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Movie Review

Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex* (*But Were Afraid to Ask)

Woody Allen borrowed the title of "Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex (But Were Afraid to Ask)" from a sexual self-help book by Dr. David Reuben, which was popular in the sexually liberated sixties and early seventies. There is little relation between Allen's movie and the book itself--neither achieves what the title seems to promise (but then again, what could?) However, Allen does us ... ...

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  • 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. ...

  • Meth found in car stopped on I-40 near RDU

    Morrisville, N.C. - The North Carolina State Highway Patrol briefly delayed traffic near Raleigh-Durham International Airport Wednesday after a trooper stopped a car and found five jars of liquid methamphetamine inside.Just after 11 a.m., troopers pulled over a driver in a silver car on westbound Interstate 40 and found the driver, Michael Edwards, 29, of Johnson City, Tenn., was wanted in ...

  • City Council Approves Design Services Agreement for Sandy Forks Road Widening

    On June 18, the Raleigh City Council approved a $749,700 contract agreement with RK&K for the design services of the Sandy Forks Road widening project.The project will include the widening of Sandy Forks to a three-lane road with curbs, gutters and sidewalks on both sides between Six Forks Road and Falls of Neuse Road. The work to be performed by RK&K includes engineering design, ...

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