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Larry Kissell Angers Supporters With Vote Against Health Care

The Washington Post | Philip Rucker | Posted 12.18.2009 | Politics

Read More: Health Care Bill, Congress, Larry Kissell, Kissell, Rep. Kissell, Health Care Reform, North Carolina, Democrats, Obama Health Care, Health Care, Politics News

To voters in this hard-luck town where stable factory jobs and the health care that came with them have long since disappeared, change looked good a ...

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Bernie Madoff Makes Friends Behind Bars

Wall Street Journal | By DIONNE SEARCEY | Posted 12.11.2009 | Business

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A description of Mr. Madoff's prison life has emerged from interviews with current and former inmates at Butner and various lawyers, including some wh...

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Moonshine At Day Care? North Carolina Woman Accused Of Selling Home-Made Alcohol At Day Care Center

AP | Posted 12.08.2009 | Home

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CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Authorities have charged a North Carolina woman with selling moonshine out of her day care center. The Charlotte Observer repo...

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Kenneth Rose Sr.'s Body Found In North Carolina After Wild Jersey Storms Sank Boat In New Jersey

AP | WAYNE PARRY | Posted 11.25.2009 | New York

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ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. — A body that washed ashore at a North Carolina wildlife refuge over the weekend has been identified as the owner of a comme...

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Sarah Palin And Billy Graham Visit, Eat Dinner Together At Evangelist's Home

AP | Posted 11.23.2009 | Politics

MONTREAT, N.C. — Sarah Palin on Sunday dined and prayed with the Rev. Billy Graham, who has counseled presidents and other politicians for decad...

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Larry Whitfield Found Guilty: Man Blamed For Scaring Grandmother To Death After Running From Bank Robbery

AP | Posted 11.21.2009 | Home

Read More: Murder, Whitfield Prison, Charlotte, Gastonia, Crime, Gastonia Bank Robbery, Wcnc, Bank Robbery, Scare to Death, Scared to Death, North Carolina, Larry Whitfield, Nc, Mary Parnell, Grandma, Home News

CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- A man will spend the rest of his life in prison after he was found guilty in what prosecutors said was a case of scaring a 79-year-...

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Shaniya Davis Story: 5-Year-Old Abused By Mother, Found Dead In North Carolina

Posted 11.17.2009 | Home

Shaniya Davis was found dead in a rural part of central North Carolina on Monday. The discovery of the 5-year-old's body painfully ended a week's l...

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Antoinette Davis, Shaniya Davis' Mother, To Be Charged For Sex Trafficking, Child Abuse

Posted 11.16.2009 | Home

Read More: Missing Child, Fayetteville, Child Abuse, Charges, Mother, Antoinette Davis Charges, Antoinette Davis, Sex Trafficking, Antoinette Davis Charged, Antoinette Nicole Davis, Shaniya Davis, North Carolina, Home News

Antoinette Davis, mother of 5-year-old Shaniya Davis found dead today near Sanford, North Carolina, will face charges. The USA Today details the in...

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Shaniya Davis Dead: Body Found In North Carolina

AP | Posted 11.16.2009 | Home

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Shaniya Davis Still Missing: 5-Year-Old Girl's Mother Antoinette Nicole Davis Accused Of Child Abuse Involving Prostitution

AP | Posted 11.16.2009 | Home

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FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. — Authorities acted on a tip Sunday and searched a wide area in south-central North Carolina trying to find a 5-year-old girl...

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14 Best Cities For Jobs: The Milken Institute

Posted 11.13.2009 | Business

Read More: Slidehuge, Wages, Economy, Employment, Slidepoll, Jobs, Job Growth, Recession, Austin Texas, Texas, Unemployment, Salary, Economic Growth, Technology, North Carolina, Business News

Job seekers take heed, the best cities to find work may be in Texas. The Milken Institute, a nonpartisan economic think tank, released its annual Best...

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Help 'Lift Up' Ellie Potvin, Eight Year Old With Rare Cancer

HuffPost | Tam Vo | Posted 11.11.2009 | Impact

Read More: Charlotte, Rhabdomyoarcoma, Cancer, Ellie Potvan, Childhood Cancer, North Carolina, Impact News

Ellie Potvin was only six years old when she was diagnosed with stage 4 rhabdomyoarcoma, a rare childhood cancer, in July of 2008. Ellie's parents...

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Hickory, N.C.: How One Town Has Been Ravaged By Globalization

Peter Whoriskey | Posted 11.11.2009 | Business

Read More: Unemployment, Economy, Foreign-Trade, Globalization, Trade Adjustment Assistance, North Carolina, Fiscal Policy, Business News

HICKORY, N.C. -- The expansion of global trade may enrich the United States, as economists say, but it has overwhelmed this manufacturing area beside ...

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Deer Swims Laps In North Carolina Pool (VIDEO)

The Huffington Post | Posted 10.31.2009 | Green

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In Gastonia, North Carolina, a deer crashed through a ceiling into an indoor swimming pool. The deer circled the pool, and then jumped in. Once in t...

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Rep. Foxx Cites Fake Quote, Claims Obama Campaigned on Making the Country Worse

Matt Finkelstein | Posted 10.30.2009 | Politics

Read More: John McCain, Pied Piper, Obama Right-Wing Smears, Health Care Reform, North Carolina, Medicare, Virginia Foxx, Barack Obama, House Health Care Bill, Obama Smears, Politics News

During the health debate, Foxx quoted from an anti-Obama poem called "The Pied Piper" that doesn't appear to be real, which went viral in the right-wing blogosphere earlier this year.

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PepsiCo's $1.26 BILLION Case: Two Men Claim Pepsi Stole Their Idea To Sell Bottled Water

Posted 10.29.2009 | Business

Read More: Joe Jacuzzi, PepsiCo.'s $1.26 Billion Case, Charles Joyce, David Van Dyke, James Voigt, Pepsi, Pepsi Trade Secrets, North Carolina, Pepsico, Business News

MILWAUKEE (AP) -- Two men who claim PepsiCo stole their idea to sell bottled water sued the snack and drink maker in Wisconsin and won a $1.26 billion...

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Strange Sleepers: Artist Puts Mannequins In Compromising Positions (PHOTOS)

Posted 10.20.2009 | Comedy

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Artist Mark Jenkins did an installation in Winston-Salem, North Carolina of mannequins in odd positions. Some were sleeping (see below), some were div...

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Step Up to Mike's Challenge

Linda Milazzo | Posted 10.20.2009 | Politics

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Despite all we've learned from Sicko, Fahrenheit 9/11 and Roger and Me, we continue to take abuse. Our pal Mike is now asking us to act.

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Book Burning: North Carolina Church To Destroy "Satan's Books"

Raw Story | Kathleen Miller | Posted 10.15.2009 | Books

Read More: Religion, Religious Extremism, Censorship, Book Burning, Books, North Carolina, Books News

A Baptist Church near Asheville, N.C., is hosting a "Halloween book burning" to purge the area of "Satan's" works, which include all non-King James ve...

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Hate the Husband? Sue the Mistress!

Jacob M. Appel | Posted 10.07.2009 | Politics

Read More: Law, Women, Marriage, Politics, Congress, Alienation of Affection, Divorce, Sex, John Edwards, Mississippi, Love, Chip Pickering, North Carolina, Politics News

An unlikely alliance of trial lawyers and Christian fundamentalists continues to defend the prerogative of jilted spouse to turn love triangles into quadrangles--with the state judicial system as a fourth wheel.

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Ken Lewis Retiring: Bank Of America CEO To Step Down By End Of 2009

AP | STEVENSON JACOBS | Posted 11.30.2009 | Business

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NEW YORK — Ken Lewis, the embattled CEO of Bank of America Corp., is leaving the company, succumbing to nearly a year of strife that followed hi...

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When Your Dorm Goes Green And Local

nytimes.com | CHARLES WILSON | Posted 11.28.2009 | Green

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Thoreau said education often made straight-cut ditches out of meandering brooks. But not at the EcoDorm, which houses 36 undergraduates and is the spi...

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The Real Reason They Want ACORN to Fail

Will Bunch | Posted 11.24.2009 | Politics

Read More: Acorn Voter Fraud, Acorn Voter Registration, Rush Limbaugh, Acorn, Hannah Giles, James O'keefe, Philadelphia Daily News, Rush Limbaugh Obama, Fox News, Glenn Beck, North Carolina, Politics News

The reality -- that ACORN is an established group with worthy goals and some success but also poor management -- is not what's driving the story. Conservatives want to destroy ACORN and the things it does. Period.

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Atlanta Flooding: 3 Killed, 5 Missing As Storms Drench Southeast

AP | GREG BLUESTEIN | Posted 11.21.2009 | Home

ATLANTA — Surging floodwaters ripped apart a west Georgia trailer home, drowning a 2-year-old boy swept from his father's arms. In Atlanta, stra...

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Raymond Cook: Doctor Kills Ballerina Elena Shapiro In DUI Crash: Police (VIDEO)

Huffington Post | Posted 11.16.2009 | Home

Elena Bright Shapiro was a 20-year-old ballerina with a promising career ahead of her. She died Friday, Sept. 11, 2009, when the car she was driving w...

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