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Construction on new Yadkin County Jail to begin Monday
After a long fight that included plans to build at another site, construction is scheduled to begin Monday on the new Yadkin County Jail downtown.
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U.S. 421 work on Boone will cause traffic delays
Construction slowdowns are nothing new for people approaching and leaving Boone on U.S. 421.
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McCrory wants NC governor's race ad off the air
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) -- Pat McCrory's gubernatorial campaign is demanding television stations stop running a commercial bankrolled by the Democratic Governors Association, arguing it made false claims about his activities linked to a Charlotte-based business....
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NC probation officer indicted on rights charges
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Federal officials say a probation officer with the North Carolina Department of Corrections has been indicted on civil rights charges for coercing a probationer he was supervising into sexual acts....
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New director named for National Hurricane Center
MIAMI (AP) -- Richard Knabb, the tropical weather expert at The Weather Channel, will be the next chief of the U.S. government's hurricane forecasting hub in Florida, federal officials said Friday....
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Democrats' group paying for anti-McCrory ad in NC
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) -- The Democratic Governors Association is bankrolling a television ad in North Carolina markets critical of Republican gubernatorial nominee Pat McCrory and his involvement in a Charlotte-based lending and real estate business....
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Jennifer Aniston to make movie in Wilmington
WILMINGTON, N.C. (AP) -- A company producing a new Jennifer Aniston movie has opened offices in Wilmington....
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SC GOP ready to work north of border this year
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) -- The South Carolina Republican Party says it's ready to work north of the border to help deny President Barack Obama the 15 electoral votes in battleground North Carolina this fall....
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Jennifer Aniston to make movie in Wilmington
WILMINGTON, N.C. (AP) -- A company producing a new Jennifer Anniston movie has opened offices in Wilmington....
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Obama campaign manager dismisses doubts of president's chances in N.C.
President Barack Obama’s campaign manager, Jim Messina, dismissed suggestions that it was a mistake for Democrats to hold their national convention in North Carolina, saying he has “zero” regrets about the decision. Messina insisted the president can win North Carolina despite low approval ratings there and recent polls that have indicated his support in the state is waning. “I believe that we can absolutely win North Carolina,” Messina said, sitting in his office at Obama campaign headquarters. “The president’s economic vision and the work he’s done in North Carolina will carry the day for us there.”
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Zebulon likely to increase property tax
Taxpayers in Zebulon here are likely to see property taxes increase in the upcoming fiscal year. Zebulon Finance Director Emily Lucas has, over the last month, presented the board of commissioners with budget scenarios that balance property tax and the town’s financial needs in the fiscal year 2012-13. In April Lucas proposed a budget with a 2.5-cent property tax increase. More recently, at the town board’s May meeting, Lucas proposed a quartet of budget scenarios including a 2-cent tax increase, a 1.25-cent tax increase, a 1-cent tax increase and a sample of how the budget pans out if the property tax rate remains at 50 cents per $100 of property value, where it has sat since 2009.
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Classic Cary burger joint set to close
An unmistakable Cary icon is closing Friday. The Circus Family Restaurant, the burger joint with a mustard- and ketchup-colored roof, is ending a 44-year run. Kurt Benrud, the business’ current owner, had only a few seconds to talk amid Wednesday’s lunch rush, but he confirmed that the restaurant would close within days “because the landlord said so.”
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House GOP considers merit pay money for schools
House Republicans voted in a private meeting this week to use some of the $121.1 million currently set aside in next year’s budget for employee merit raises instead to fortify K-12 schools.
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N.C. set to release report on April jobless rate today
The monthly release of North Carolina unemployment data will show whether job prospects have improved every month this year, even though progress has been slow.
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House speaker Tillis defends payments to ex-staffers
Amid calls for him to use taxpayer money differently, State House Speaker Thom Tillis on Thursday stood by his decision to pay two former top staffers an extra month of salary after they resigned over improper intimate relationships with lobbyists.
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Worker at Wilkesboro doughnut shop has hepatitis A
WILKESBORO, N.C. (AP) -- Health officials say people who ate at a doughnut shop in Wilkesboro earlier this month may have been exposed to hepatitis A....
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Want a rare burger? You're a step closer in N.C.
If you’re a burger fan in North Carolina, you just got a big step closer to being able to say, “Make it rare.”
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Buncombe County schools consider free breakfasts
ASHEVILLE, N.C. (AP) -- Buncombe County schools are considering taking advantage of a federal program that would pay for a free breakfast for all students....
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N.C. Senate preliminarily approves bill that would de-annex parts of Lexington
North Carolina senators tentatively agreed Thursday to legislation essentially bypassing a judge's ruling that struck down a new way to block forced annexations and prolonged a tug-of-war involving several landowners and municipalities, including Lexington.
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Veteran says King police are harassing him for throwing away a Christian flag
Steven Hewett, an Afghanistan war veteran who started a controversy two years ago by objecting to a Christian flag at King's Veteran's Memorial, says the town's police are harassing him because he threw away a Christian flag at the memorial in late April.
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Attorneys make closing arguments in John Edwards corruption trial
Attorneys hammered at the credibility of John Edwards and his once-trusted aide as arguments in his campaign corruption trial ended Thursday, leaving jurors to decide whether the presidential candidate's sex scandal cover-up amounted to a crime or a litany of lies.
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Watauga DA: no charges against two former ASU football players
Two Appalachian State University football players accused of rape will not be charged criminally, the Watauga County District Attorney's Office announced Thursday.
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NC speaker OKs payments to resigning staffers
House Speaker Thom Tillis on Thursday defended payments to two high-level staff members who resigned because of inappropriate relationships with lobbyists, suggesting the money in part compensated them for working for free at the start of their tenures.
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Reynolds American: $10 million to nonprofits in 2011
Reynolds American Inc. said Thursday that its group of companies, employees and private charitable foundations donated about $10 million in value to nonprofit organizations last year.
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