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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 ...

  • Washington group Immigration reform could mean 5K new jobs in N.C.

    Granting immigration reform to North Carolina's 325,000 undocumented workers would boost the state's gross state product by $34 billion and create 5,000 new jobs over the next 10 years, according to a progressive Washington-based think tank. ...

  • Farmer’s Market Planned for Southeast Raleigh

    A new farmer's market, featuring fresh local products, is planned to begin operating in southeast Raleigh this summer. The market is being developed in response to a need generated by the recent closing of two supermarkets in southeast Raleigh. Financial support to help offset the project's start-up costs was approved by the Raleigh City Council on May 7. The $15,000 donation will come ...

  • Charlotte Bobcats want to be Hornets again

    Charlotte Bobcats camp isn't something that will make a difference in the win-loss column, but it has the Queen City buzzing nonetheless. According to a report from CBSSports.com, the Bobcats are in the process of changing their name back to "Hornets," which would, critically, mean the return of Hugo the Hornet and the beehive-themed free throw lane to Charlotte. Such a change ...

  • 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 ...


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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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  • 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, ...

  • 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 ...

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