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  • Police tie north Raleigh murder to burglary attempt

    Raleigh, N.C. - Three people have been arrested in the death last week of a 30-year-old Elizabethtown mother of two who recently moved to Raleigh and was found covered in blood inside her apartment last week, Raleigh police said Wednesday.Ronald Lee Anthony, 23, of 1800 Bloodworth St., Raleigh, Travion Devonte Smith, 20, of Raleigh, and Sarah Rene Redden, 18, of 3209 Scotch Pine Trail, Wake ...

  • New credit line to fund growth of lab on a chip

    says it has gained a new credit facility from Square 1 Bank, of Durham, with plans to use the cash to fund its growth and product development. Terms were not immediately released. You'll recall that ...

  • Business Insider Wilmington among best future housing markets

    the latest CoreLogic Case-Shiller report , BI ranks the top 15 by the projected annualized change in home prices between Q4 2012 and Q4 2017. Wilmington ranks No. 13 on the list, with annualized expected growth of 7.1 percent over the next five years. The analysis also notes that current home prices in the Wilmington metro area are down by 25.6 percent from their Q2 2007 peak. To provide ...

  • Oil company says ex-employee stole trade secrets

    Two oil companies are in litigation in the North Carolina Business Court. An Asheboro-area oil company is suing a former employee in Fuquay-Varina, claiming that he and a competing oil company conspired to steal customer lists and other private information. Pugh Oil Co. alleges that Jeff Zimmer copied vast quantities of information from its computers on March 19, while he was still an employee, ...

  • NRC to inspect Duke North Carolina Harris nuclear reactor

    Wed May 22, 2013 1:00pm EDT May 22 (Reuters) - The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) said Wednesday that it was launching a special inspection at Duke Energy Corp's Harris nuclear power plant in North Carolina over a "quarter-inch flaw" on the plant's reactor vessel head. Duke shut the 900-megawatt (MW) plant on May 15 when further analysis of ultrasonic data gathered ...


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Movie Review

This Is Spinal Tap [DVD]

This Is Spinal Tap [DVD]

Now that VH-1's "Behind the Music" and other rockumentaries are an increasingly regular part of the cable TV landscape, Rob Reiner's directorial debut, the 1984 mock documentary "This Is Spinal Tap," seems even more dead-on in its parody of a group of aging, outdated British heavy metal rockers on their last American tour. Because there have been dozens of one-hour programs with aged rock sta ... ...

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  • Federal inspectors launch investigation after North Carolina nuclear plant shutdown

    RALEIGH, N.C. – Federal regulators said Wednesday that they are conducting a special inspection of a nuclear power plant outside North Carolina's capital city that was forced to shut down last week after operators discovered corrosion and cracking in the reactor vessel's covering. Two Nuclear Regulatory Commission specialist inspectors will join the on-site NRC inspectors ...

  • Testing gaps plague N.C.s new electronic Medicaid claims paying system

    Sufficient testing has not been done to ensure the state's new computerized Medicaid claims paying system, NCTracks, will be ready for primetime when the go-live switch is thrown July 1, says North Carolina ...

  • Salix reports successful Phase 3 for colitis candidate

    Salix Pharmaceuticals (Nasdaq: SLXP) says it successfully completed trials to evaluate the efficacy and treatment for active mild to moderate ulcerative proctitis (UP) or ulcerative proctosigmoiditis (UPS). Salix reported that in each of the two Phase 3 studies, "a statistically significant proportion of subjects treated with budesonide foam (the Salix treatment) achieved clinical ...

  • The List The Triangle’s largest graphic design firms

    In its simplest form, graphic design is using any visual medium - be it a poster, a newspaper advertisement or a business logo - to convey a message. We see all sorts of designs in our daily lives, from candy wrappers to T-shirts. There are a number of firms in the Triangle that do this type of work on a daily basis. These firms work with a myriad of clients, including public companies such ...

  • Glaxo to get up to $200M for bioterrorism research

    GlaxoSmithKline (NYSE: GSK) is teaming with the U.S. to fight bioterrorism. The company, which has its U.S. headquarters in Research Triangle Park, is collaborating with the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority, a division of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, in a deal to develop antibiotics to treat resistant infections and bioterrorist threats. The agreement ...

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