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Dwane Powell: Sen. Burr and the return of the torture report

Dwane Powell on Sen. Richard Burr, the Senate Intelligence Committee and the torture report he wants...

“Boyhood” received six Oscar nominations.

On Culture: Are indie films dead?

As the Sundance Film Festival convenes in Utah, columnist Craig Lindsey ponders whether independent...

Sports

Duke coach Mike Krzyzewski wants a traveling call against St. John's in the first half of play at Madison Square Garden in New York City.

Duke rallies to beat St. John’s 77-68 for Coach K’s 1000th win

Just when it looked like the 1,000 wins party for Mike Krzyzewski was off, Duke woke up from its sleepwalk. The Blue Devils rallied to beat St. John’s 77-68 at Madison Square Garden and give Coach K the milestone. 7 minutes ago

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Memorial chair: Friends of Thomas Anstey, who was killed in a Jan. 19 motorcycle wreck on Interstate 440 near Glenwood Avenue, placed a chair at the spot where Anstey usually parks his Honda Valkyrie while visiting the MacGregor Draft House in Cary. Anstey would have enjoyed sipping on the brown-bagged Pabst Blue Ribbon beer, friends said, and the flowers. A memorial was held Saturday, Jan. 24, 2015 at the bar.

Friends, co-workers remember biker killed in I-440 hit-and-run

More than 200 neighbors, co-workers and friends celebrated Tom Anstey‘s life Saturday at MacGregor Draft House. Anstey was killled Monday when a car slammed into his motorcycle on Interstate 440 near Glenwood Avenue.

Business

Tip’d Off founders, from left, Akshay Oberai and Rahul Sethuram watch fellow founder Koosh Saxena write notes at their office last month in Mountain View, Calif. The startup uses social networking to put young investors in touch with each other.

Millennials use tech tools to jump into investing

It’s the Facebookification of financial investing.

Politics

Durham Riverside High School math teacher Steve Unruhe, center, takes extra time with one of his AP calculus students to help him understand the day’s lesson on polar curves Thursday. Unruhe, a math and journalism teacher, will retire in June 2015, partly because of the loss of longevity pay.

NC teachers lose bonus pay, but others still cash in

Legislators have ended longevity bonuses for teachers but kept it for many other state employees, including their own. One veteran teacher, who is retiring, says the action was “a slap in the face.”

Nation/World News

Caribou graze in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in this undated photo from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.

Obama proposes to make ANWR a wilderness

The White House is proposing to designate the oil-rich coastal plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge as a wilderness area permanently off limits to drilling. 2 hours ago

Living

Carlos Chavez, 5, gives Dustin Hitt, dressed as a NASA astronaut, a high-five during Astronomy Days at the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences on Saturday. Hitt is an Exhibits Technician for NASA Langley.

Exhibit at Raleigh museum brings space close to home

During Astronomy Days, a two-day space exhibit at the NC Museum of Natural Sciences, visitors talked to experts from NASA, the Raleigh Astronomy Club, professors and museum staff about galaxies far, far away.

Entertainment

Marsha Gordon and Skip Elsheimer, shown in a storage room at the A/V Geeks office, worked together to get a documentary called “Felicia,” about an African-American teenager in the Watts neighborhood of Los Angeles, added to the Library of Congress’ National Film Registry.

‘Felicia’ brings the past to light, with a little help from A/V Geeks and an NC State professor

Among the new additions to the National Film Registry is “Felicia,” an obscure but revealing 1965 documentary about pre-riot Watts in Los Angeles that would be decaying in a landfill if not for the efforts of two people from Raleigh...

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Dwane Powell: Sen. Burr and the return of the torture report

Dwane Powell on Sen. Richard Burr, the Senate Intelligence Committee and the torture report he wants returned from the White House.

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