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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 ...

  • 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 ...

  • 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 ...

  • 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 ...

  • 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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Jacob's Ladder

Jacob's Ladder

When it was first released, Jacob's Ladder was one of the most misunderstood, overcritized, and underappreciated films of 1990. The bane of its existence was that it was directed by Adrian Lyne, best known for slick, pop entertainment like Flashdance (1982), 9 1/2 Week ... ...

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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 ...

  • 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 ...

  • 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 ...

  • 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 ...

  • 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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