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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 ...

  • Durham buildings prepped for Duke’s use

    There's something big happening behind those construction barriers set up around two old Liggett and Myers tobacco buildings in Durham's West Village. Construction workers for Lechase Construction have been moving in and out of both the Carmichael Building at 300 Duke St. and the old Liggett and Myers Research Building at 710 W. Main St. in recent weeks, but Duke University's ...

  • I-40 west closed south of downtown Raleigh

    Raleigh, N.C. - Interstate 40 westbound south of downtown Raleigh was closed Monday morning after a wreck near the split with Interstate 440 at mile marker 301. The road was expected to remain closed through the noon hour, according to the state Highway Patrol. Witnesses said the wreck involved a single tractor-trailer carrying bags of concrete. The driver told Highway Patrol that he ...

  • Oklahoma other tornado-hit states brace for more

    SHAWNEE, Okla. -; When Lindsay Carter heard on the radio that a violent storm was approaching her rural Oklahoma neighborhood, she gathered her belongings and fled. When she returned, there was little ...

  • Investors Title hits new high as home sales rebound

    Title insurance companies have recovered along with the housing market. Stocks have bounced back to new highs since housing and the financial sector dragged the market into an abyss in 2009, and one of the strongest comebacks has been at Investors Title Co. (Nasdaq: ITIC), a title insurer based in Chapel Hill. The companys shares closed at a record high of $72 on Friday and went higher still, to ...


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Movie Review

Polyester [DVD]

Polyester [DVD]

By the time writer/director John Waters made Desperate Living in 1977, he was already a notorious midnight-movie cult celebrity, a genuine fringe iconoclastic auteur whose low-budget cinematic barbs skewered self-aggrandizing hippies as readily as it did fascist oppressors. His early movies, Pink Flamingos (1972) and Female Trouble (1974), had taken the midnight ... ...

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  • Biotech Center would lose half its state support

    North Carolina Biotechnology Center would see its annual state support cut in half to about $8.6 million under the budget proposal drafted by the North Carolina Senate. Meanwhile, the Research Triangle Regional Partnership and the state's six other regional economic development partnerships would lose all of their state operational support. That represents a total cut of about $4.3 million ...

  • In Pictures Dinosaurs Invade Raleigh

    I've always been fascinated with dinosuars. From learning about them in second grade with Miss Jenkins, to getting my head stuck in a railing trying to catch a better glimpse of an Ankylosaurs skeleton at a San Francisco museum - these terrible creatures have always captured my fancy. And now, the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences is hosting an exhibit called "Dinosaurs in ...

  • Pedestrian sign means stop

    Who doesn't know what the sign pictured with this blog means? It's a pedestrian warning sign, and it means motorists are required by law to stop and allow pedestrians to cross the street. Fat chance. It happens everyday. Pedestrians try to cross a street, a road or a highway at their own peril because motorists rarely stop - as, again, the law requires. This morning, while crossing ...

  • Pack light when flying American and the airline will reward you

    American Airlines (Pink Sheets: AAMRQ) will be rewarding me for this by letting me board the plane right after uniformed military, elite and first class passengers. The airline came out with a ...

  • NCSU center a jolt for ‘smart grid’

    I mentioned some of them in last week's print edition . Another "smart grid" entity that's helping to keep the industry plowing forward: The FREEDM Center ...

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