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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 ...

  • Thousands turn out for Tour DCoup

    Good grief. I grew up in rural Cleveland County, and we had chickens all over the place. Laying hen, breeding roosters and fryers. Nowadays, that's a novelty. That's fine. Sort of part of the back to Earth movement. Thousands turned out this weekend to check the chicken coops in the backyards of urban Raleigh and ...

  • Showdown looms over pre-K in N.C.

    Proponents of pre-kindergarten educational programs in North Carolina credit it with preparing kids to learn when they arrive at school. But a showdown looms over the program, with the state House considering a proposal to limit ...

  • Celebrating all things N.C.

    The sixth annual Got to be N.C. festival brought 'em in at the North Carolina State Fairgrounds in Raleigh to celebrate all things made, not just in the U.S., but particularly in North ...

  • One dead in Oklahoma after tornadoes slam Plains Midwest

    SHAWNEE, Okla. - Hearing on the radio that a violent storm was approaching her rural Oklahoma neighborhood, Lindsay Carter took advantage of the advanced warning, gathered her belongings and fled. When she returned, there was little left of the community she called home. Several tornadoes struck parts of the nation's midsection Sunday, concentrating damage in central Oklahoma and Wichita, ...


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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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  • 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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