VIA: WTVD.COM For the second time in as many years, a Hope Mills town commissioner is under fire. The town attorney has confirmed to ABC11 Eyewitness News that he’s looking into allegations that Commissioner Tonzie Collins used the N-word in a reference to the town’s African American police chief. “In this case I really need […]
Officials say flooding and landslides from the season’s first tropical storm have killed at least 144 people in Central America. Dozens are still missing, thousands have lost homes and emergency crews are struggling to reach isolated communities cut off by washed-out roads and collapsed bridges caused by Tropical Storm Agatha. In hardest-hit Guatemala, where downpours […]
VIA: WTVD.COM Stunned employees returned to their jobs Monday – a day after a shooting at the Super Target store in the Beaver Creek Commons shopping center off Highway 55 claimed the life of a co-worker. Meanwhile, Apex police have idenfied the gunman. They say he was 67-year-old Mervin Carroll Mims. He had no known […]
VIA: CNN.COM The death toll from Tropical Storm Agatha is growing, with 123 reported killed in Guatemala, 17 in Honduras and nine in El Salvador. At least 90 people are missing in Guatemala and another 69 are injured, the nation’s emergency agency reported late Monday. The previously reported toll for Guatemala was 92 deaths, 54 […]
NEW ORLEANS — The best hope for stopping the flow of oil from the blown-out well at the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico has been compared to hitting a target the size of a dinner plate more than two miles into the earth, and is anything but a sure bet on the first attempt.
PHOENIX — U.S. Justice Department officials told Arizona’s attorney general and aides to the governor Friday that the federal government has serious reservations about the state’s new immigration law. They responded that a lawsuit against the state isn’t the answer.
COVINGTON, Louisiana — A risky procedure is failing to stop the oil spewing into the Gulf of Mexico, and BP said Saturday it is considering scrapping it in favor of yet another method to contain the worst oil spill in U.S. history.
As I listened to White House and BP officials describe the frantic search for an answer to cap the massive oil leak one mile below the Gulf Coast, all I could think about was the movie, “Apollo 13.” In the film starring Tom Hanks, some of the nation’s best and brightest working at NASA feverishly […]
After seeing “The Color Purple” at the DPAC this week in Durham, I am convinced of one thing. I love Sophia. I mean, I was a HUGE Sophia fan when Oprah played the role in the movie. I knew all of her lines, facial expressions, body movements, everything. But the Sophia on the stage not […]
VIA: CNN.COM Web search engines make our lives easier: They connect us with what we’re searching for in a matter of seconds, and sometimes they bring us to places we didn’t even know we were looking for. But they can also teach us a lot about ourselves, as more than half of adult internet users […]
VIA: WRAL.COM A Wake Forest couple was arrested Thursday in connection with the death of their 17-month-old son, who authorities believe died of dehydration when left alone in a heated room. Shandu Slaughter, 28, and Kristin Wills, 21, both of 839 N. Franklin St., were charged with involuntary manslaughter. They were placed in the Wake […]
Michael Nuzzo says he and his siblings learned how to make pizza in their parents’ famed New Haven pizzeria, and his children should have the same opportunity in his restaurant. That’s not the view of the state Department of Labor, whose special investigator visited Nuzzo’s Grand Apizza Shoreline at 9 E. Main St. earlier this […]