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RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) - A poll says North Carolina residents like electing their judges, but some are open to letting an independent commission appoint them.
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ATLANTA (AP) - Health officials say four people in North Carolina have tested positive for a type of swine flu that&#8217;s resistant to the drug Tamiflu.
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The future of North Carolina&#8217;s Conagra plant is up in the air.           ]]></description>
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GREENSBORO, N.C. (AP) - One of the country&#8217;s largest medical sample testing companies could get nearly $900,000 in taxpayer incentives if it consolidates billing operations in North Carolina.
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RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) - An environmental regulator in North Carolina state government has traveled to the federal courthouse where prosecutors are seeking information about former Gov. Mike Easley.
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RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) - An 84-year-old North Carolina motorist has been sentenced for hitting and killing a child at a school bus stop.
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RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) - North Carolina&#8217;s appeals court is considering a lawsuit filed after a living man was declared dead, zipped into a body bag and taken to a morgue.
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          <title>A month after her disappearance, Somer Thompson&#8217;s murder remains a mystery</title>
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GASTONIA, N.C. (AP) - Friends and family say two North Carolina women whose bodies were dumped miles apart in South Carolina knew each other.
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RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) - The possessions of a former North Carolina financier have drawn big bids at an auction.
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KANNAPOLIS, N.C. (AP) - The U.S. Agriculture Department is paying $1 million to bring together North Carolina scholars wanting to crack complicated questions in food science and nutrition.
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FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. (AP) - A group in a North Carolina city is continuing its efforts to overturn a state law prohibiting local governments and the state from bargaining with unions.
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RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) - An environmental group says North Carolina&#8217;s future with solar energy can be bright.
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RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) - Gov. Bev Perdue says 18 small North Carolina companies will receive federal stimulus grants to spur development in green technology.
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          <title>State employees explore options at Health &amp;amp; Wellness Expo</title>
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A special break for some state employees today, to talk about health.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Officials ID burned body found in NC state park</title>
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GASTONIA, N.C. (AP) - Police have identified a burned body found in a North Carolina state park and are investigating the case as a homicide.
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RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) - A political operative who guided former Gov. Mike Easley&#8217;s two campaigns for North Carolina&#8217;s top office testified before a federal grand jury that&#8217;s hearing more about the Democratic governor.
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          <title>CAUGHT ON TAPE: Police in Charlotte led on high speed chase after man robs bank</title>
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Police were led on a high speed chase in Charlotte yesterday.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Sony Ericsson closing NC site among global cuts</title>
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RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C. (AP) - Cell phone handset maker Sony Ericsson is closing its North American headquarters in North Carolina as part of a global consolidation that will cut about 2,000 jobs.           ]]></description>
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BURGAW, N.C. (AP) - Health officials say a North Carolina high school student&#8217;s death earlier this month was the result of the swine flu.
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RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) - A North Carolina congressman says police got their facts wrong when they denied a messy Capitol Hill protest against corporate hog farms out of concern about spreading swine flu.
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RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) - Jewels, art, cars and more than 150 bottles of fine wine will be auctioned off in North Carolina&#8217;s capital city to help recoup nearly $70 million in losses for investors duped in an alleged Ponzi scheme.
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It was one week ago today Antoinette Davis reported her five year old daughter missing.           ]]></description>
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RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) - North Carolina&#8217;s consumer protection chief for Attorney General Roy Cooper has been picked to join the Federal Trade Commission.
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RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) - The North Carolina Museum of Art in Raleigh is on the move. And it&#8217;s taking about 750 works of art with it.
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FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. (AP) - A dog trainer who was present when the body of a 5-year-old girl was found along a wooded road in North Carolina says searchers initially overlooked the area because they saw only deer carcasses in trash bags.
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CHAPEL HILL, N.C. (AP) - Best-selling mystery writer John Grisham will deliver the commencement address at the University of North Carolina spring graduation.
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RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) - Lawyers for a disgraced former North Carolina legislator have gone back to court seeking to overturn his conviction for obstruction of justice.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Fayetteville community gathers to remember Shaniya Davis</title>
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LELAND, N.C. (AP) - A North Carolina sheriff&#8217;s deputy has been accused of assaulting his estranged wife.           ]]></description>
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CATALOOCHEE, N.C. (AP) - Rangers in the Great Smokey Mountains National Park say they expect to charge a man with killing an elk.
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There are some new and disturbing developments in the case of a missing 5-year-old girl in North Carolina.           ]]></description>
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&nbsp;  &nbsp; A man arrested by mistake for the disappearance of five-year-old Shaniya Davis is very angry about what happened.           ]]></description>
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&nbsp;  &nbsp; A democrat seen as a potential challenger to Senator Richard Burr next year says he will not enter the race.           ]]></description>
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&nbsp;  &nbsp;  RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) - Conservative activists are heading to Raleigh to rally against federal health care and pollution control legislation.           ]]></description>
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FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. (AP) - The attorney for a man charged with kidnapping a 5-year-old Fayetteville girl says his client will plead not guilty.
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RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) - Federal investigators want to know more about four coastal developments assembled by a pair of brothers with ties to former North Carolina Gov. Mike Easley.
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FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. (AP) - Police in North Carolina say they have arrested a new suspect in the alleged kidnapping of a girl still missing after disappearing from a mobile home park three days ago.
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RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) - A drug company is expanding its operations in North Carolina, adding nearly 260 jobs.
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RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) - North Carolina will no longer cover the cost of 11 childhood vaccines for families with insurance as part of an effort to help pay for vaccines for uninsured children.
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CHAPEL HILL, N.C. (AP) - A University of North Carolina panel has revised a policy that allows school administrators to collect leave pay even if they don&#8217;t return to teaching positions at the school as planned.
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WILMINGTON, N.C. (AP) - Want to know how far it is from the eastern end of Interstate 40 in North Carolina to the western end in California? Punch it into your GPS or try MapQuest.
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RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) - The North Carolina Farmers Market is getting a little crafty this weekend with early holiday shoppers.
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Other parts of the state weren&#8217;t immune to the heavy rains.           ]]></description>
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CHAPEL HILL, N.C. (AP) - The Army&#8217;s most elite soldiers are teaming with North Carolina&#8217;s university system to improve training on national security issues.           ]]></description>
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FAYETTEVILLE, (AP) - A North Carolina man is under arrest, charged with kidnapping in the disappearance of a 5-year-old girl.           ]]></description>
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SPRING LAKE, N.C. (AP) - Prosecutors plan to seek the death penalty against a North Carolina woman accused of killing her 11-month-old daughter and hiding her body in an attic.
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DURHAM, N.C. (AP) - A White House official in charge of improving nationwide Hispanic education is stopping by a North Carolina community center.
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WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. (AP) - A North Carolina university law student is helping local entrepreneurs with free legal advice for a day.
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One high school football team is forfeiting it&#8217;s season and the school&#8217;s principal is under investigation tonight.           ]]></description>
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RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) - Gov. Beverly Perdue wants changes to the state motor vehicle fleet because North Carolina government agencies have state vehicles in their parking lots.
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WILMINGTON, N.C. (AP) - A U.S. congressman has announced plans for a $95 million veterans affairs clinic in eastern North Carolina.
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LELAND, N.C. (AP) - A North Carolina pastor has been released from jail after being arrested on charges of having sex with a child.
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RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) - Raleigh police have released a 911 recording of a man seeking help for an unresponsive 10-month-old hours before her stepfather was charged with first-degree murder in her death.
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CLINTON, N.C. (AP) - A North Carolina pork producer has filed for bankruptcy after complaints from unpaid vendors and falling pork consumption tied to swine flu fears.
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HENDERSON, N.C. (AP) - Two children have died in a house fire in northern North Carolina.
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FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. (AP) - North Carolina police are investigating why it took more than an hour to dispatch officers to the home of a real estate developer who killed his wife and two teenage children and himself last week.
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WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. (AP) - A federal magistrate has recommended that the use of prayer to open a board of commissioners meeting in North Carolina violates the First Amendment.
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CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) - Gov. Beverly Perdue has released a plan to complete the outer loop around North Carolina&#8217;s largest city.
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RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) - A legislative watchdog agency says North Carolina needs to better monitor how hundreds of millions of dollars sent annually to nonprofit groups is spent.
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BONNIE DOONE, N.C. (AP) - A North Carolina man serving time in a Georgia prison is set to face murder charges in the slayings of his brother and sister-in-law more than two decades ago.
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CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) - Officials have cut $1.5 million from mental health services in the Charlotte area after North Carolina state budget cuts reduced funds.
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CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) - The Billy Graham Library will close for three months next year for renovations.
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ARCHER LODGE, N.C. (AP) - A small, rural North Carolina community has voted to become a town after three years of lobbying efforts.
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SPRING LAKE, N.C. (AP) - Nine officers on the police force of a North Carolina town are set to reaffirm their duty to protect and serve during a formal ceremony.
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&nbsp;  &nbsp;  MOUNT AIRY, N.C. (AP) - Authorities say the suspect in the killing of four men outside a North Carolina store was in the U.S. illegally and had been deported before.           ]]></description>
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&nbsp;  &nbsp;  GASTONIA, N.C. (AP) - A bullet to the heart fired by a North Carolina police officer killed the man authorities think was a serial killer responsible for five deaths in South Carolina this summer.           ]]></description>
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WILMINGTON, N.C. (AP) - A North Carolina contractor says plans for a new sea turtle hospital in Surf City are in the works.           ]]></description>
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RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) - Police have released 911 recordings that contain the sounds of a gunshot and a relative pleading for ambulances to get to the scene of a quadruple murder-suicide in Fayetteville earlier this week.
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GREENSBORO, N.C. (AP) - Three workers at a major North Carolina hospital are gone after failing to get vaccinated against the seasonal flu.
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APEX, N.C. (AP) - A North Carolina home daycare is closed while authorities investigate the death of an infant.
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CAPE MAY, N.J. (AP) - A relative of a crew member aboard a scallop boat that sank off the New Jersey coast in March says she got a satellite phone call from him just before the boat went down, killing him and five others.           ]]></description>
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GREENSBORO, N.C. (AP) - A major North Carolina hospital is pitching tents to battle the spread of swine flu.           ]]></description>
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ASHEVILLE, N.C. (AP) - Blasting is under way as crews try reopening Interstate 40 near the North Carolina-Tennessee state line where a massive rock slide closed the road late last month.           ]]></description>
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FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. (AP) - A federal judge has dismissed a civil lawsuit filed by the family of a man killed by a North Carolina police officer during a traffic stop.           ]]></description>
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ASHEVILLE, N.C. (AP) - Authorities say two men are recuperating in the hospital after their small, fixed-wing airplane crashed into a corn field North Carolina.           ]]></description>
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HICKORY, N.C. (AP) - The manufacturing and furniture industries that built up the Hickory area have been hit hard in this recession, so the community is talking through what to do next.           ]]></description>
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RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) - Several dozen legislators are back in Raleigh to discuss North Carolina&#8217;s tax structure and whether an overhaul can be approved as soon as next spring.
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Police say a love affair gone wrong may have sparked the quadruple shooting and killing in Mount Airy on Sunday.           ]]></description>
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