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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 ...

  • 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 ...

  • 80-Year-Old North Carolina Educator Why I Got Arrested

    Update: Barbara Parramore was taken into police custody Monday evening. Today I am participating in a non-violent and peaceful protest ...

  • 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 ...

  • 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 ...


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A Fish Called Wanda [DVD]

A Fish Called Wanda [DVD]

A Fish Called Wanda is the greatest Ealing Studios comedy never made at Ealing Studios. Bought by the BBC in 1959, after which it shifted entirely to television production, Ealing had its golden age in the 1950s when it produced a string of pitch-perfect pitch-black ... ...

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  • 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 ...

  • Senior housing property sells for $31 million

    A Georgia senior housing firm has bought the Manor Village at Preston apartment community in Morrisville for $31 million. The 166-unit community has been renamed as Preston Pointe. It was a unit of Rauls Convalescent Home Inc. of Macon, Ga., that purchased the property from Manor Village Life ...

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