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It Saves Millions To Simply Give Homeless People A Place To Live
It is cheaper to give homeless people a home than it is to leave them on the streets. The latest analysis to back up this fact comes out of Charlotte, where researchers from the University of North Carolina Charlotte examined a recently constructed apartment complex that was oriented towards homeless people.
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Same-sex marriage opt out now law after veto override :: WRAL.com
With no warning and no debate allowed, the House voted Thursday morning to override Gov. Pat McCrory's veto of Senate Bill 2, allowing magistrates and county register of deeds employees to opt out of performing marriages for religious reasons.
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Video shows shark chasing stingray at North Carolina beach
KURE BEACH, N.C. – Check out this video of what appears to show a shark chasing a stingray near the North Carolina shore. Megan Kindley of Concord sent the video to WECT on Friday. She said the sha...
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The world eats cheap bacon at the expense of North Carolina’s rural poor
Neighbors battle pig farms and their stinky manure-filled lagoons in North Carolina. By Lily Kuo.
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Final days counting down for Carowinds’ Thunder Road roller coaster
The final days for the Thunder Road roller coaster are approaching without much fanfare. Soon Carowinds will remove the ride for what is expected to be an expansion of its water park.
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Presidential candidate ‘Deez Nuts’ actually a 15-year-old Iowan
Bad news for nine percent of likely voters in North Carolina: Their preferred candidate doesn’t exist.
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Outer Banks Lighthouses
For more than two centuries, lighthouses have guarded the Outer Banks coast. Generations of seaborne travelers and mariners have sought the comfort of these beacons' reassuring light as they navigated perilous channels and shoals that mark the Graveyard of the Atlantic. Perhaps that is why these sentinels, among the tallest in America, have come to serve as beacons of hope and inspiration.
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HighView Farm
High View Farm is a 35 acre state of the art horse riding facility in La Grange NC that provides riding lessons, Boarding, Equine Services and equine assisted psychotherapy for the Goldsboro, La Grange, Kinston, and Eastern North Carolina area. http://www.highviewfarm.org
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North Carolina Reaches Solar Power Milestone
A North Carolina sustainable energy group announced solar power capacity in the state has passed 1 gigawatt of power and accounts for $1.6 billion in revenue.
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Woman says she is happier than ever after fulfilling lifelong wish of becoming blind
A North Carolina woman says she is happier than ever after she fulfilled her lifelong wish of becoming blind. Jewel Shuping, 30, has Body Integrity Identity Disorder, according to Barcroft TV. BIID is a condition in which able-bodied people believe they are meant to be disabled.
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Thousand-Year Rains Possible in Carolinas; Joaquin Headed North
In some areas of North Carolina and South Carolina, 24-hour rainfall amounts one would expect to fall only once in a thousand years are predicted.
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Flooding Sweeps East Amid 'Mind-Boggling' Rains
Flash flooding intensified in some areas of the East on Sunday as unrelenting torrential rain and high winds blamed for at least five deaths swept across much of the battered region.
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PopCap hops on the theme park bandwagon with a real-life PvZ arena
EA-owned PopCap Games is the latest video game company to make eyes at the amusement park business, announcing plans today to open a Plants Vs. Zombies: Garden Warfare attraction at the Carowinds theme park in next spring.
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Defending Real Barbecue
In North Carolina, "barbecue" means barbecued pork, and regional varieties draw fierce loyalty. Some call it the Balkans of barbecue.
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Is Solar Power Contagious?
Brewers in N.C. point to the power of peer pressure to change minds about renewables.
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How A Former Pot Grower Made A Fortune Importing Mexican Workers
Stan Eury turned an obscure bit of immigration law into a mammoth federal program — and a lucrative business empire, importing tens of thousands of Mexican workers for legal American jobs. Except that some of the jobs weren’t real jobs, and an untold number of those workers may never have returned to Mexico at all.
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Why One Church's Use of Solar Panels Matters
This David vs. Goliath story could impact the future of renewable energy everywhere.
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Decision on NC’s voter ID law now rests with federal judge
In a federal courtroom with room for fewer than 100 people in the gallery, an army of attorneys has spent the past week arguing over whether North Carolina’s voter ID law harms the fundamental right to vote.
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Poverty in Charlotte: ‘It Was Never Okay’
A working mother fights to give her kids a better life in a city where that’s next to impossible. By Lisa Rab.
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NC Student's Attempt To Get Voter ID Shows Just How Bad Voter Suppression Has Become
Logan Graham, a student at North Carolina State University, recently wrote a column in the university’s newspaper, The Technician, expressing his outrage over the troubles he faced when he tried to get a voter ID as an out-of-state student after new, contentious voter ID laws were passed in North Carolina.
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