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  • North Carolina Ousts Tigers From CWS With 4-2 Win

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  • Raleigh holds line on taxes in 2013-14 budget

    Raleigh, N.C. - The Raleigh City Council unanimously approved a $707 million budget Tuesday for the fiscal year that starts July 1.No tax increase was included in the budget, but the council did approve a $1 increase to the solid waste fee and higher water and sewer rates to help pay for infrastructure upgrades. The higher rates amount to about $3.75 a month for an average family."This ...

  • Raleighs Approved Budget Has No Tax Increase

    The Raleigh City Council today unanimously approved the Fiscal Year 2013-14 budget. The budget does not increase property taxes or solid waste, stormwater or privilege license fees. It does include an additional $13.9 million in revenue for the City's Public Utilities' system. The additional revenue is derived from a 14 percent sewer volumetric rate increase and a redesign of the ...

  • GE Aviation to Add 50 Jobs in North Carolina

    GE Aviation confirmed Monday a plan to add 50 jobs at its engine assembly plant in Durham, N.C., to boost capacity for assembly of a new jet engine that one company official said is being developed to power heavily-used aircraft. The company formally announced the plans to add capacity at the Durham plant as part of larger announcement of a $195 million total statewide investment that ...

  • Durham police investigating fatal shooting

    Durham, N.C. - Investigators are looking into a fatal shooting that happened in east Durham Tuesday morning.Kammie Michael, a spokeswoman for the Durham Police Department, said officers responding to a 911 call around 11:40 a.m. found Jermaine Andrea McDonald, 37, dead in the street in front of a house in the 100 block of North Hyde Park Avenue.Police said McDonald lived on the street, but ...


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Movie Review

Death of a Cyclist (Muerte de un ciclista) [DVD]

Death of a Cyclist (Muerte de un ciclista) [DVD]

Like the works of the early French New Wave or Eisenstein's silent films, Juan Antonio Bardem's Death of a Cyclist (Muerte de un ciclista) is a film forged from theoretical and ideological conviction. Produced in Spain under the Franco regime, where cinema had be ... ...

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  • Swift Drive Road Closure Extended Through June 28 for Drainage Improvement Project

    . Swift Drive is currently closed between Octavia Street and Merwin Road. Additional time is needed to complete the improvements being made to the Lail Court culvert. Swift Drive will remain closed through Friday, June 28. Any questions regarding the project should be directed to the Stormwater Utility ...

  • Protesters jailed as they decry Republican shift in North Carolina

    RALEIGH, North Carolina (Reuters) - A conservative shift by North Carolina's first Republican-led government in more than a century is drawing weekly protests to the state capital of Raleigh, but some lawmakers are defiantly standing their ...

  • NC State grad selected as new NASA astronaut

    JACKSONVILLE, N.C. - Christina Hammock is realizing a dream she has had since she was a 6-year-old growing up on the North Carolina coast. The 34-year-old Jacksonville native, who has undergraduate and graduate degrees from North Carolina State, is among eight candidates selected to begin astronaut training by NASA. Hammock, currently assigned to National Oceanic and Atmospheric ...

  • Speed-limit hike zooms to House vote

    Raleigh, N.C. - The state House could vote Wednesday on a proposal that would allow the state Department of Transportation to raise the speed limit on some highways to 75 mph. passed the House Transportation Committee on Tuesday, despite concerns voiced by Democrats and Republicans on the panel. The current maximum speed on North Carolina highways is 70 mph, but bill backers want to allow ...

  • Raleigh looks to tap Falls Lake for more drinking water

    Raleigh, N.C. - City officials fear Raleigh's demand for water will outstrip supply by 2040, so the City Council agreed Tuesday to pay for a study of Falls Lake to see if more drinking water can be pulled from the reservoir in the future.The water in Falls Lake is dedicated to different purposes, and the $450,000 study by the Army Corps of Engineers, which manages the lake, will determine ...

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