Palin drawing a big crowd at Fort Bragg
An hour before Sarah Palin was scheduled to appear at Fort Bragg this morning, more than 1,000 people were waiting to see her.
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Blanchard, a 22-week-old pet rooster, was killed in his owners' yard by a hawk that should have been hunting rabbits.
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An hour before Sarah Palin was scheduled to appear at Fort Bragg this morning, more than 1,000 people were waiting to see her.
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When drug maker Novartis chose Holly Springs as the site for a new vaccine plant three and a half years ago, it instantly put the southern Wake County town at the epicenter of the country's efforts to combat the flu.
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Faceoff:
Every Monday, Matthew Eisley faces off against a guest columnist on a topical issue. This week's topic: Raleigh's Christmas Parade.
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Progress Energy's Shearon Harris nuclear plant has resumed operations after fixing a major oil leak.
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Wake County could extinguish four volunteer fire stations that have battled blazes in the county for decades.
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Shaniya Davis was laid to rest Sunday afternoon at a service that drew about 2,000 people at Manna Church in Fayetteville.
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Word about North Carolina's shoddy representation on the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals reached U.S. Sen. Kay Hagan last year the way such political concerns often do: by way of a friend of a friend.
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A man and his old flame sat in Jackpot!, a Hillsborough Street barroom thick with hipsters and their cigarette smoke. His wig barely covered a shock of blond hair; her purse was filled with water balloons. Both wondered: "Just how fast can I reach my water pistol?"
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Ask most people who were the earliest U.S. Muslims and they might scratch their heads and come up with Muhammad Ali or maybe Malcolm X.
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Under the Dome:
N.C. Senate President Pro Tem Marc Basnight told the state's congressional delegation Friday that North Carolina doesn't need any more study about a Navy outlying landing field.
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Three seniors with North Carolina connections were selected as 2010 Rhodes Scholars on Saturday. The scholarships, worth about $50,000 each, fund two to four years of study at Oxford University in England.
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Every Monday, Matthew Eisley faces off against a guest columnist on a topical issue. This week's topic: Raleigh's Christmas Parade.
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