Family doctors become rarer
As health-care reform efforts in Washington put primary care at the center of treatment, the need for generalists will likely worsen an already chronic shortage of primary care doctors across North Carolina and the nation.
Deaths shatter Ocracoke Island
An Independence Day celebration that brings thousands of tourists to Ocracoke Island turned deadly Saturday morning when a truckload of fireworks exploded near the South Ferry terminal, killing three pyrotechnics workers and injuring two co-workers.
In N.C., a dozen coal-ash ponds threaten lives
Six months after a dam burst near a power plant in Tennessee, spilling more than 5 million cubic yards of ashy sludge, which contains arsenic, lead and mercury, much of the disaster's nastiness still lingers.
Shazam, you're rich!
Almost everybody dreams of winning the lottery. And after Jeff Wilson, 27, of Kings Mountain won the $88.1 million Powerball drawing last month, we started wondering what a person would do with all that money.
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