Peter Bogdanovich, a director known for such films as The Last Picture Show, Paper Moon, Mask and What's Up, Doc?, is joining the faculty of the UNC School of the Arts School of Filmmaking.
He will teach two classes during the spring term, which will start Monday: "Intermediate Direction: Classic Directors -- John Ford," and "Advanced Directing: Deconstructing The Last Picture Show."
Next month, Bogdanovich will be honored at the RiverRun International Film Festival with a "Master of Cinema" award for his work. His movie Paper Moon will be screened during the festival.
2 die in Ashe in what authorities say appears to be murder/suicide
JEFFERSON -- Two people died yesterday in what appears to be a murder-suicide, Sheriff James Williams of Ashe County said.
The 911 call came in about 2:20 p.m. Authorities blocked off a residential area off of N.C. 221 east of Jefferson yesterday afternoon.
The names of the people involved were not available.
Man in critical condition after car hits him on North Point Boulevard
A Winston-Salem man was seriously injured yesterday when a car hit him as he walked across the intersection of North Point Boulevard and Bethabara Road, authorities said
Winston-Salem police said that the driver, Carolyn Mickey Adkins of King, was traveling west on North Point about 7:30 a.m. She entered the intersection on a green light and hit Kurt Vaughn Bellingrath, 57, who was walking northeast.
Bellingrath was taken to Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center, where he was listed in critical condition last night.
Former Easley aide faces 6 more charges in federal indictment
RALEIGH -- A federal grand jury added six tax-evasion and racketeering-related counts yesterday to an indictment already accusing a former aide to former Gov. Mike Easley of 51 corruption charges involving trips and profits on coastal developments.
The new 57-count indictment accuses Ruffin Poole of three federal income-tax charges, alleging that he filed fraudulent tax returns for him and his wife in 2005, 2006 and 2007 when he didn't report about $55,000 in extra income gained from investing in two coastal subdivisions.
Another three charges accuse Poole of using e-mails and the Internet -- a method of interstate commerce -- with a developer to facilitate Poole's alleged racketeering stemming from the investments he made while working in the Easley administration.
The new indictment incorporates the 51 felony counts filed in January accusing Poole, a former personal assistant and special counsel to Easley, of making a nearly 28 percent return on $200,000 in investments on two coastal subdivisions with the help of an unidentified "Wilmington financier," and receiving airplane trips to Costa Rica and New Orleans and other gifts, according to the indictment.
Manufacturing jobs are needed to help middle class, Biden says
DURHAM -- Manufacturing jobs are essential to the support of a vibrant middle class, and the Obama administration is working to boost U.S. manufacturing of growing technologies, Vice President Joe Biden said yesterday.
"We're going to make sure that we don't just build the same old economy on top of the one that just collapsed," Biden said during a visit with Energy Secretary Steven Chu to Cree Inc., a maker of light-emitting diodes.
"Instead, we are remaking what we do, what we make, what we build and design, what we produce and where we produce it," Biden said.
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