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Community Sports Calendar - November 19
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Corporate earnings go cliff-diving
The news just keeps getting worse, and I note with dismay that the latest report of initial claims for unemployment are 516,000 - well past the psychologically-important half-million mark - personal bankruptcies averaged "4,936 per business day in October" - which is up 8% from September and 34% more than October 2007 - business sales are down a couple of percent, factory shipments are down a ...
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Holiday Craft Show Next Weekend
St. Thomas More School will hold annual Christmas Holiday Shoppe craft show December 6th, the News and Observer reports.
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Orange County Poet Is First Piedmont Laureate
Jaki Shelton Green has been given the first honor from the newly created program, the News and Observer reports.
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BBC local news proposal faces flak
A BBC plan to extend its local news coverage - potentially imperilling regional newspapers - is being strongly opposed by the government, the Financial Times has learned.
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Police search for home invasion suspect
Two men are in custody for forcing their way into a Spring area home just after midnight Nov. 17, The Observer news partner KTRK-TV ABC Channel 13 reported.
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Don Hunter's legacy includes photos, many friendships
Former colleagues remembered Don Hunter, an award-winning photographer for more than five decades, for his professionalism, his personality and the strength of his work. Mr. Hunter died on Nov. 6, 2008 following a long illness. A service was held in his hometown of Asheville, N.C. Mr. Hunter earned nearly 100 awards during his career with the Charlotte News, the Charlotte Observer, Charlotte ...
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Hospital workers fired in patient death
Thirteen employees at a North Carolina psychiatric hospital have been disciplined -- three of them were fired -- for the death of a patient.The other employees received penalties ranging from written warnings to four- and five-day suspensions, authorities said Wednesday. The state Department of Health and Human Services issued a written statement about the penalties, the Raleigh News & Observer ...
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Were the World Mine (2008)
Tanner Cohen, left, and Nathaniel David Becker in “Were the World Mine,” inspired by “A Midsummer Night’s Dream.”
Model Karolina Kurkova world's sexiest woman: report
Lingerie model Karolina Kurkova has been voted the world's sexiest woman by E! entertainment television, beating sultry actresses Angelina Jolie and Scarlett Johansson for the honor.
NATO ready to help Africa, but is not world's policeman: chief
NATO is ready to strengthen its ties with Africa, but Africa should come up with solutions to its problems and not expect NATO to police the world, its secretary general Jaap de Hoop Scheffer said on Thursday.
World stocks down amid fears of deep recession
World stocks fell sharply Thursday as fears of a deep global recession gripped markets and sent oil prices below $50 a barrel to levels not seen in more than three years.
World Bank Arm Backs Small Palm Growers on Climate (Update1)
Nov. 21 (Bloomberg) -- The International Finance Corp. , the World Bank's investment arm, said it will help lenders in Indonesia to finance small-scale palm oil growers to encourage so-called sustainable practices and forestall climate change.
Google to shut down virtual world Lively at year-end
The Internet giant, which launched the site less than five months ago, says it wants to focus on its core search business. Not all Google Inc. endeavors turn into gold. Lively, a virtual world the Internet giant launched less than five months ago, will be shut down at the end of the year so Google can focus on its bread-and-butter search business.
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