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Missing nearly five years, Erica Parsons found buried in rural S.C.

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N.C. State is still waiting for a ruling from the NCAA on the eligibility of freshmen forwards Omer Yurtseven and Ted Kapita.

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N.C. House Speaker Tim Moore offered some new details about a failed House Bill 2 compromise between the legislature and Charlotte leaders in a TV interview Wednesday night.

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Opinion

Two fathers waiting. One is dead. The difference that mattered

After the death of Keith Lamont Scott in Charlotte, we must recognize that race fundamentally shapes our interactions, that it shapes the decisions of police offers to trust one person and not another, before they know anything else. We must push for change in a system that has failed to address the problem.

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Gender creative Charlie

Sep 29, 2016

Martie Todd Sirois, and her son Charlie Sirois, 10, went viral after a letter was posted to Facebook, describing the 10-year-old had longed to shop at the Justice store near Triangle Town Center in North Carolina. The store has a window that reads “just for girls.” According to her post, she said her son “has always acted like a stereotypical girl, played exclusively with stereotypical toys, and has almost exclusively female friends.”

Jill Knight jhknight@newsobserver.com

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