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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 ...

  • Pennsylvania trooper injured in North Carolina accident

    A Pennsylvania state trooper remains in critical condition in a hospital in Wilmington, N.C., as a result of being hit by a deer while riding a motorcycle early Friday, police ...

  • 80-Year-Old North Carolina Educator Why I Got Arrested Protesting Right-Wing Agenda for Schools

    crowd of hundreds of peaceable citizens (the highest count yet) gathered at the North Carolina Legislature buidling to protest right-wing policies pushed by GOP lawmakers. The Moral Mondays protests, launched by the NC chapter of the NAACP, is now in its fourth week. The number of protesters arrested for May 20th ...

  • QB Mitchell decides on North Carolina State

    FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. -; Former Arkansas quarterback Brandon Mitchell says he is transferring to North Carolina State to play his final ...

  • Tornado slams school in Oklahoma City suburb

    OKLAHOMA CITY - A monstrous tornado as much as a mile wide with winds up to 200 mph roared through the Oklahoma City suburbs Monday, flattening entire neighborhoods, setting buildings on fire and landing a direct blow on an elementary school.  The weather service's preliminary classification of Monday afternoon's tornado was an EF-4 on the enhanced Fujita scale.There were no ...


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Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan [DVD]

Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan [DVD]

Vulgar, hilarious, and frighteningly revealing, Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan mixes the mock documentary tradition with Sacha Baron Cohens unique brand of guerilla performance art. As a ... ...

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  • 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 ...

  • 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 ...

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