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An Apple employee holds up the new iPad Air on Tuesday, Oct. 22, 2013, in San Francisco. Apple unveiled a new, thinner, lighter tablet called the "iPad Air" along with a slew of new Macs Tuesday at an event in San Francisco. The iPad Air weighs just 1 pound, compared with 1.4 pounds for the previous version. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)

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UNC forward Kennedy Meeks shows off weight loss, windmill-dunking ability

Kennedy Meeks arrived at UNC weighing about 320 pounds, but he said he weighed 270 earlier this month.

Local/State News

Tinamarie Carter walks back to her home after shopping at the Kroger on Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard in 2012. Art Pope’s Variety Wholesalers has purchased the property and plans to open a new grocery.

Pope’s Variety Wholesalers buys Southeast Raleigh Kroger to establish grocery

Art Pope’s Variety Wholesalers has purchased the vacant Kroger store in Southeast Raleigh with plans to establish the company’s first standalone grocery in an area that badly needs one. 2 minutes ago

Business

Family Dollar is one of the Charlotte region’s most prominent homegrown companies. The company has 8,100 stores, making it the nation’s second-largest dollar store retailer. This is the Family Dollar store at 1720 W. Trade St. in Charlotte.

Dollar Tree steps up fight, buys Family Dollar

The fight for penny pinchers is intensifying. 8 minutes ago

Politics

FILE - This Nov. 29, 2013, file photo shows a part of the HealthCare.gov website, photographed in Washington. If you have health insurance on your job, you probably don't give much thought to each year's renewal. But make the same assumption in one of the new health law plans, and it could lead to costly surprises. Insurance exchange customers who opt for convenience by automatically renewing their coverage for 2015 are likely to receive dated and inaccurate financial aid amounts from the government, say industry officials, advocates and other experts.

Plan to simplify 2015 health renewals may backfire

If you have health insurance on your job, you probably don't give much thought to each year's renewal. But make the same assumption in one of the new health law plans, and it could lead to costly surprises. 1 hour ago

Nation/World News

Palestinians pray in the courtyard of a U.N. school in Gaza City, Monday, July 28, 2014. The school, one of dozens of emergency shelters for those who have fled the fighting. It's the morning of Eid al-Fitr, the three-day holiday that caps the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan. In normal times, the men would have worshipped at their neighborhood mosques. However, 20 mosques have been hit by Israeli warplanes so far, according to Palestinian officials. Israel says Hamas stores weapons and rockets in houses of worship. The men prefer to perform Eid prayers in the relative safety of the school.

Israeli PM speaks of 'prolonged' campaign in Gaza

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Monday that Israel must be ready for a "prolonged" military operation in the Gaza Strip and will "act aggressively and responsibly" until the mission is completed. 8 minutes ago

Living

On the Roanoke River along the waterfront in Plymouth, N.C. the replica of the Civil War ironclad the CSS Albemarle floats on the serene waters on July 20.

Best-Kept Secrets: NC's Inner and Outer Banks a land of pirates, wolves, legends

There is something magical about the land of sunken ships, pirate tales and wild horses that roam the shoreline. Even the names of places evoke a time of swashbucklers and legends.

Entertainment

FILE - In this April 27, 2014 file photo, former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin speaks during a campaign rally in West Des Moines, Iowa. Sarah Palin is starting her own subscription-based online network. The Sarah Palin Channel, which went live on Sunday, July 27, 2014, bills itself as a "direct connection" for the former Alaska governor and GOP vice presidential candidate with her supporters, bypassing media filters.

Sarah Palin launches online subscription channel

Sarah Palin has started her own subscription-based online network. 28 minutes ago

Opinion

Grief and questions in Chapel Hill

A popular UNC professor is killed, and Chapel Hill grieves another loss to random violence.

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