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- Former legislator to lead NC education group
Wednesday - 03/04/2015 - 12:00 PMFormer state Rep. Marcus Brandon is the new executive director of the education policy and advocacy group CarolinaCAN.Click to Continue »
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Cary cops ask for help naming masked store burglar
Wednesday - 03/04/2015 - 12:43 PMLooking for help identifying a man caught on camera in a burglary, Cary police said Wednesday that they suspect a connection with other commercial break-ins.Click to Continue »
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - US clears officer in Ferguson case, criticizes police force
Wednesday - 03/04/2015 - 12:32 PMThe Justice Department won't prosecute a former Ferguson, Missouri, police officer in the shooting death of an unarmed black 18-year-old, but in a scathing report released Wednesday faulted the city…Click to Continue »
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Johnston authorities: Woman stole 33 cell phones
Wednesday - 03/04/2015 - 11:43 AMA Vance County woman was arrested Tuesday on warrants charging she stole 33 cell phones from two Johnston County Walmart stores and one warrant accusing her of conspiring to commit…Click to Continue »
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Durham deputies seize 84 pounds of marijuana, guns in arrest
Wednesday - 03/04/2015 - 07:47 AMDurham sheriffs deputies say they found more than 84 pounds of marijuana in a mans car, $50,000 in cash and several guns when they searched his home Monday.Click to Continue »
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Wake County schools defend Saturday makeup days
Tuesday - 03/03/2015 - 10:14 PMWake County school administrators say holding makeup days on Good Friday and two Saturdays will better prepare students for exams. They say that options such as extending the end of…Click to Continue »
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - McCrory complaint appears to advance
Tuesday - 03/03/2015 - 06:03 PMA political advocacy group’s complaint against NC Gov. Pat McCrory alleging he failed to fully disclose his financial interests appears to be under further inquiry by the State Ethics Commission.Click to Continue »
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Wake board OKs job protections for teachers
Tuesday - 03/03/2015 - 06:52 PMThe Wake County school board approved Tuesday a policy that provides the local equivalent of career status, or tenure, that state lawmakers have been trying to remove from teachers. The…Click to Continue »
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Motorists found Wilson gold heist guards in handcuffs along I-95
Tuesday - 03/03/2015 - 05:19 PMTwo motorists on Interstate 95 near Wilson phoned 911 early Sunday evening to report two uniformed men with their hands tied behind their backs walking in the rain, trying to…Click to Continue »
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Rescue for Carolina Coach gains momentum, but odds are long
Tuesday - 03/03/2015 - 01:36 PMAn effort to save the old Carolina Coach depot from demolition gained momentum on Tuesday, but the wrecking equipment literally came closer to the aging brick buildings too.Click to Continue »
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- NC House Republicans file bill on historic tax credits
Wednesday - 03/04/2015 - 12:12 PMSeveral Republican House members filed a bill Wednesday to bring back the state’s historic preservation tax credit program – a big priority for Gov. Pat McCrory.Click to Continue »
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - UNC medical professor enjoys second career as mystery writer
Wednesday - 03/04/2015 - 12:59 PMNoelle Granger, professor emeritus at UNC-Chapel Hill, has just launched the second novel in her Rhe Brewster Mystery series – “Death in a Dacron Sail.”Click to Continue »
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Triangle students drill to prepare for NC tornado season
Wednesday - 03/04/2015 - 11:40 AMAs the last patches of snow melted outside, students across the Triangle on Wednesday morning practiced what to do in the event a tornado is spotted nearby.Click to Continue »
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Animal welfare advocates meet NC lawmakers
Wednesday - 03/04/2015 - 11:50 AMAnimal welfare advocates gathered at the NC General Assembly on Wednesday for workshops and meetings with legislators to push for improved laws.Click to Continue »
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - New principal hired at Green Hope Elementary in Cary
Tuesday - 03/03/2015 - 08:11 PMThe Wake County school board hired Kristin Walker from the Chapel Hill-Carrboro school system to become the new principal of Green Hope Elementary School in Cary. The board also extended…Click to Continue »
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Bill would bring secrecy to NC lottery
Tuesday - 03/03/2015 - 08:31 PMLottery players in North Carolina who win big money on the games – from a Powerball jackpot to a $600 scratch-off ticket win – can’t keep it a secret, at…Click to Continue »
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Poll shows McCrory holding steady
Tuesday - 03/03/2015 - 06:19 PMThe latest PPP survey shows NC Gov. Pat McCrory holding steady in approval ratings, and slightly leading likely contender Attorney General Roy Cooper.Click to Continue »
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Christensen: Lynch nomination is politics as usual
Tuesday - 03/03/2015 - 07:33 PMNorth Carolina senators plan to try to block first Tar Heel attorney general…Click to Continue »
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Wake County students to make up days on Good Friday, Saturdays
Tuesday - 03/03/2015 - 05:42 PMWake County school board members backed the staff’s recommendation to hold classes on Good Friday – which is April 3 – and two non-consecutive Saturdays in May that haven’t been…Click to Continue »
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - $9.6 million grant aimed at NC’s community colleges
Tuesday - 03/03/2015 - 01:25 PMA grant announced Tuesday by the Charlotte-based John M. Belk Foundation will go to community college efforts to help more students graduate.Click to Continue »
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- Audit: NC dentists allowed to sedate patients for months before inspection
Wednesday - 03/04/2015 - 12:07 PMNorth Carolina’s dental authority fails to ensure dentists who sedate patients have the proper “skills, equipment, drugs, support personnel and procedures” in place, according to a new report by the…Click to Continue »
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Wilson investigators trying to determine if I-95 gold heist was inside job
Wednesday - 03/04/2015 - 01:43 PMThe Wilson County Sheriff’s Office is trying to determine whether the theft of $4.8 million in gold bars from a tractor-trailer truck on Interstate 95 over the weekend was an…Click to Continue »
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Fuquay-Varina police investigate shooting at home
Wednesday - 03/04/2015 - 09:57 AMPolice in Fuquay-Varina were investigating the circumstances of a shooting in which a man was found wounded at a home Wednesday morning.Click to Continue »
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Defense: Broyhill held knife that killed Hahn
Wednesday - 03/04/2015 - 11:28 AMProsecutors told jurors on Wednesday that their "hearts will break" during the trial of Jonathan Broyhill. Broyhill, 33, is accused of murdering Jamie Kirk Hahn and attempting to kill her…Click to Continue »
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - NC to vote on closing Dynamic Community Charter
Wednesday - 03/04/2015 - 06:00 AMThe State Board of Education is scheduled to discuss and vote over the next two days on revoking the charter of Dynamic Community Charter School in Raleigh. It’s the only…Click to Continue »
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Spring break saved, at a cost
Tuesday - 03/03/2015 - 08:58 PMWake County school board members backed the staff’s recommendation to hold classes on Good Friday, a Saturday in April and a Saturday in May. Administrators recommended those options over extending…Click to Continue »
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Divided NC House drops fracking provision from funding bill
Tuesday - 03/03/2015 - 06:16 PMIn a move that divided Republicans, the state House dropped a fracking provision from unrelated funding bill Tuesday – reversing a vote taken Monday night.Click to Continue »
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Raleigh faces downtown flap, spiking rail-station cost
Tuesday - 03/03/2015 - 03:35 PMAfter months of rumblings, the Raleigh City Council has taken up the question of whether downtown Raleigh’s nightlife is going from “vibrant” to over-saturated. Also, the city’s cost for Union…Click to Continue »
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - NC House bill would let drivers cross yellow lines to pass slow-pokes
Tuesday - 03/03/2015 - 05:39 PMCiting the frustrations of drivers who get stuck behind bicycles, mopeds and garbage trucks traveling far below the speed limit, North Carolina House members debated a proposal to let motorists…Click to Continue »
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Developer scraps Hillsborough Street apartment plan
Tuesday - 03/03/2015 - 11:47 AMNeighborhood opposition has sent a Hillsborough Street apartment proposal for the University Park area back to the drawing board, showing again that would-be builders in one of the city’s most…Click to Continue »
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