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Prosecutors: North Carolina On-Duty Police Officer Sold Cocaine in Patrol Car
If convicted, the officer faces a mandatory minimum penalty of five years behind bars and a maximum sentence of life in prison.
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Here Are the Country's Cheapest Airports to Park at — and Where Rideshares and Transit Are Better Bets
Upgraded Points analyzed airport parking data to compile a list of the 10 cheapest U.S. airports to park at in 2021.
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This Young CEO Kept Her Special Needs Staff on Payroll Through the Pandemic
When the coronavirus pandemic hit, 321 Coffee had to shut down and its staff, many of whom have special needs, were sent home. CEO Lindsay Wrege talked about how the business adapted and actually grew thanks to a new idea.
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Apple Will Spend $1 Billion to Open 3,000-Employee Campus in North Carolina
The campus is a sign of Apple’s continued expansion beyond its home in Cupertino, California, where most of its engineering has been based.
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States Struggle to Give Out Over $45 Billion in Rental Assistance as Evictions Continue
Rental assistance may not come soon enough for tenants struggling in the coronavirus pandemic.
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A Raleigh Restaurant that Welcomes the Homeless
A Place at the Table is a nonprofit restaurant that serves people who can’t afford to pay the cost of their meal side-by-side with those who can. The Raleigh, N.C.-based restaurant is owned by Maggie Kane, who wanted to create a place where the homeless can eat a meal with dignity.
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UPS Gets Government Approval to Become a Drone Airline
UPS has won government approval to operate a nationwide fleet of drones, which will let the company expand deliveries on hospital campuses and move it one step closer to making deliveries to consumers. Many regulatory obstacles remain, however, before UPS — or other operators who are testing drones — can fill the sky over cities and suburbs with drones carrying...
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Trial Starting in Defamation Lawsuit Against Author Nicholas Sparks
The trial is getting underway in a lawsuit that accuses novelist Nicholas Sparks of defaming the former headmaster of a private Christian school he founded in North Carolina. Saul Hillel Benjamin accuses Sparks of telling Epiphany School parents, a job recruiter and others that he suffered from mental illness. The jury in the trial beginning Wednesday in Raleigh will decide...
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United Apologizes After Mother Says Airlines Put Son on Wrong International Flight
A North Carolina mother says her 14-year-old son, who was traveling alone, almost ended up in the wrong country after he was put on the wrong connecting flight in Newark Liberty International Airport.
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Real-Life ‘Home Alone' Burglary Suspect Nabbed After Escaping Hospital; 11-Year-Old Had Wounded Him With Machete
A North Carolina burglary suspect who was fought off by an 11-year-old boy with a machete was caught Sunday, nearly two days after he slipped away from the hospital where he was treated for a head wound. His capture came after a manhunt and finger-pointing about who was to blame for his escape. Sgt. Shane Brown of the Burlington Police...
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Boom in Electric Scooters Leads to More Injuries, Fatalities
Andrew Hardy was crossing the street on an electric scooter in downtown Los Angeles when a car struck him at 50 miles per hour and flung him 15 feet in the air before he smacked his head on the pavement and fell unconscious. The 26-year-old snapped two bones in each leg, broke a thighbone, shattered a kneecap, punctured a lung...
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$344.6 Million Powerball Winner Says Granddaughter's Fortune Cookie Led to Jackpot
A North Carolina man who says he based his Powerball entry on a fortune cookie he got from his granddaughter now has a fortune to celebrate. WRAL in Raleigh reports retired retailer Charles W. Jackson Jr. stepped forward at North Carolina Education Lottery headquarters on Tuesday to claim last weekend’s $344.6 million jackpot. Jackson chose the $223 million lump sum...
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Exhibits, Panels, Opera, More for Stonewall 50th Anniversary
If it’s Pride Month, there’s gotta be a parade. And there will be, in New York City and places around the country and world. But this year, the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall uprising that fueled the fire for a global LGBTQ movement, there’s also a lot more. From symposiums to movie screenings, walking tours to art exhibits, and even...
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Sears Pins Future on Small Stores Selling Appliances, Mattresses
Like many suburban shopping areas, Overland Park, Kansas, has a Whole Foods grocery store and a Cheesecake Factory. Now, it’s among the first to have a Sears Home & Life store. For five decades, from 1967 to 2017, Sears had presence in the booming town, which is also home to Sprint ‘s headquarters.
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In ‘Lawless' World of Service Dogs, Many Families Suffer
The service dog industry — particularly in the field of “psychiatric” service dogs for people with autism and post-traumatic stress disorder — has exploded in recent years. But a near complete absence of regulation and oversight has left needy, desperate families vulnerable to incompetence and fraud. “It is a lawless area. The Wild West,” says David Favre, a law professor...
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Animal Advocates: Fatal Zoo Mauling Shows Need for Crackdown
The fatal mauling of a zoo intern by a lion that escaped from a locked pen illustrates the need for North Carolina regulators to crack down on unaccredited exhibitors of dangerous animals, animal welfare advocates said Monday. Alexandra Black, 22, was attacked Sunday while cleaning an animal enclosure with other staff members. It was at least the 10th instance of...
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Weather Forecast: Clear, Chilly Night
Wednesday: Sun and wispy clouds. Highs near 40. Wednesday night: Mostly clear. Lows in the 20s. Thursday: Sun & increasing high-altitude clouds. Highs in the 40s.
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Weather Forecast: Cool, Pleasant Sunday Ahead
Tonight: Clear. Cold. Lows in the upper 10s. Tomorrow: Sunny. Chilly. Highs in the mid 30s. Monday: Sunny. Cold. Highs in the mid 30s. CAPE FORECAST Tonight: Clear. Cold. Lows in the upper 10s. Tomorrow: Sunny. Chilly. Highs in the mid 30s. Monday: Sunny. Cold. Highs in the upper 30s.
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Ballot Fraud Investigation Muddies North Carolina Election
Allegations of flagrant absentee ballot fraud in a North Carolina district have thrown the Election Day results of one of the nation’s last unresolved midterm congressional races into question. Unofficial ballot totals showed Republican Mark Harris ahead of Democrat Dan McCready by 905 votes in the 9th Congressional District. But the state elections board refused to certify the results last...
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Body Found in North Carolina is Kidnapped Teen Girl: Police
IA body found in North Carolina has been preliminarily identified as a 13-year-old girl kidnapped outside her home, investigators said Wednesday, bringing a sad conclusion to a three-week search involving hundreds of investigators. Lumberton Police Chief Michael McNeill told reporters at a news conference that state crime lab tests indicate the body found late Tuesday is Hania Aguilar. While a...