North Carolina News
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Pet owner's pitbulls mistakenly euthanized
12:25 PM on 03/04/2010
VIDEO - Charlotte-Mecklenburg Animal Care and Control, in North Carolina, mistakenly euthanized a family's dogs and is now conducting an internal investigation to figure out what went wrong...
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Caught on tape: Charlotte bus crashes
9:20 AM on 03/01/2010
VIDEO - Reporters for WCNC in Charlotte, North Carolina looked through hundreds of video clips recorded onboard public buses in the last two years...
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New film 'Blood Done Sign My Name' recreates 1970 battle against segregation
2:34 PM on 02/19/2010
VIDEO - A new film looks at how the tragic murder of a Vietnam veteran prompted a small North Carolina town's black community to stand up and fight back...
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Duke lacrosse rape accuser charged with attempted murder, arson
9:16 AM on 02/19/2010
DURHAM, N.C. (AP) - Crystal Mangum, 31, was arrested late Wednesday on charges including assaulting her boyfriend, Durham police said in a press release...
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Free early college for at-risk students brings success
10:23 AM on 02/08/2010
From The NY Times - At a new wave of early-colleges across the country, the goal is to keep at-risk students in school by eliminating the divide between high school and college...
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NAACP files complaint against North Carolina school district
9:00 AM on 12/02/2009
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) --The NAACP has filed a federal complaint against an eastern North Carolina public school system. The organization claims the district has deliberately segregated schools.
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Man gets life in prison for scaring woman to death
11:02 AM on 11/23/2009
A North Carolina man will never see the light of day again after being found guilty of scaring a 79-year old grandmother to death...
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Shaniya's story reveals widespread sex trafficking in black community
8:34 AM on 11/18/2009
OPINION - No one can imagine what little Shaniya Davis went through in the first 48 hours after she was declared missing...
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Museum to preserve Woolworth's lunch counter - and legacy of civil rights fight
9:00 AM on 11/17/2009
OPINION - Does the current rise of minorities in American society signify the end of a fight for civil equality?
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Missing 5-year-old is confirmed dead
12:23 PM on 11/16/2009
SANFORD, N.C. (AP) - Searchers found the body of a missing 5-year-old off a road Monday, ending a weeklong search for the girl, whose mother was accused of offering her for sex...
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Missing NC girl's mom faces court appearance
8:21 AM on 11/16/2009
FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. (AP) - A North Carolina mother is to appear in court as authorities search woods and swamps for her 5-year-old daughter...
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Missing 5-year-old seen on hotel camera
11:24 AM on 11/13/2009
VIDEO - A missing 5-year-old North Carolina girl was seen with a man at a hotel, but not the same person charged in her kidnapping, police said late Thursday.
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Man arrested for kidnapping while 5-year-old remains missing
10:49 AM on 11/12/2009
FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. (AP) - A North Carolina man has been charged with kidnapping a 5-year-old girl, but police were still searching for the child Thursday, two days after she was reported missing...
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Museum named in honor of Charlotte's first black mayor
7:31 AM on 10/27/2009
VIDEO - With the opening of the Harvey Gantt Museum in Charlotte, a page of history is turned by a notable historian himself...
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Does media underreport black murders?
9:28 AM on 10/23/2009
FROM NEWSWEEK.COM> Ten women have been found slain or have been declared missing in Rocky Mount, N.C., in recent years. But the rest of the country hasn't heard about a possible serial killer stalking the young women in this Southern town of 60,000. The latest victim, Elizabeth Jane Smallwood, was...
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Police search for pregnant 12-year-old and sister
4:02 PM on 09/28/2009
VIDEO - The search for two girls from North Carolina intensifies as we learn that one of the girls is pregnant...
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Caught on tape: Officer strangles woman, punches man in the face
8:21 AM on 09/25/2009
VIDEO - The video is shocking. It shows a young woman grabbed by her neck and pushed backward onto a table. It was that scene which caused another nightclub patron to approach the officer...
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Extreme flooding across the southeast
1:00 PM on 09/22/2009
VIDEO - Driving rains continue to fall across the south. Storms over the last several days have created dangerous, and deadly conditions.
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Teen and newborn daughter killed
8:10 AM on 09/21/2009
A newborn delivered after her teenage mother was fatally shot at a school bus stop in North Carolina has died...
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6-year-old helps mother deliver baby
8:18 AM on 09/18/2009
VIDEO - Briana Johnson couldn't wait, and neither could her unborn daughter...
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Obama woos wavering Dems on health vote
VIDEO - Days away from a make-or-break vote on his fiercely contested health care overhaul, President Obama is turning up the pressure on wavering Democrats...
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