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Michael Teasley, a white man in his mid-30s and a political science major at Jackson State University, has just been elected president of the school’s NAACP chapter. Derrick Johnson, NAACP state president, said the selection of a white man to lead a local chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People shows […]
Elizabeth Edwards over the past six years has seen her husband’s presidential ambitions thwarted, retreated from public life as their marriage disintegrated over his affair, then emerged to advocate for changes in the country’s health care system, all while grappling with the cancer ravaging her body. Now, doctors have told the 61-year-old and her family […]
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KNIGHTDALE (WTVD) — Police charged a 23-year-old Garner woman with felony larceny and safecracking after she allegedly took a safe filled with money and jewelry. Arrest warrants accuse Amber Nichole Narron, of 1104 JR Drive, of taking the safe from a woman living in the 3600 block of Kemp Drive in Knightdale. The contents of […]
HILLSBOROUGH (WTVD) — A fatal accident shut down the eastbound lanes of Interstate 40 in Orange County early Friday. The Highway Patrol said the crash happened around just before 4 a.m. when a driver lost control of a 1995 Toyota SUV during what appeared to be an attempt to avoid another vehicle or something in […]
BAGRAM AIR FIELD, Afghanistan — President Barack Obama slipped unannounced into dangerous Afghanistan on Friday, one year after widening an ever deadlier war and just days before a pivotal review about the 9-year-plus conflict. Plans for a face-to-face meeting with Afghan President Hamid Karzai were scrapped at the last minute. Under intense security, Obama landed […]
VIA: WRAL.COM The country’s most prominent civil rights group has come to Raleigh to draw attention to what it calls a growing erosion of the gains made since a 1954 Supreme Court decision made segregated schools illegal. Using Wake County’s ongoing debate over school diversity as a backdrop, the NAACP is holding a national conference […]
NC residents carry the highest credit card debt in the continental US. A TransUnion third quarter report shows the average person has a debt of $5640. wral.com Read More
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(CNN) — Some Americans are giving homegrown food and specialty items as presents this holiday season and spending a fraction of what they’d pay in a store. Who doesn’t like a tasty bargain? According to the National Gardening Association, about 41 million households participate in food gardening; 58 percent do it to grow better tasting […]