Last weekend in Hickory, North Carolina, a man was arrested and charged with raping a woman. According to Charlotte’s Channel 9 News, the forty-one-year-old man was charged with first-degree kidnapping, first-degree rape and assault with a deadly weapon. Why assault with a deadly weapon?
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Raleigh News & Observer | Technician The Technician at North Carolina State University ran an editorial Wednesday begging students for help “regardless of age or experience.” It said: “Without student support, the paper could cease publication at the end of the semester. …
2010
Mike Nellis: Democratic Senate Candidates Running on the Public Option
This is a big piece of momentum for real health care reform advocates.
2009
Dr. Charles G. Cogan: The American Syndrome: Seeing the World as We Like It
Last October, hearts jumped in the West. The Iranian delegation at Geneva agreed to ship out the bulk of its low enriched uranium (LEU) to Russia and France, where it would be respectively enriched to 18.75 % and then turned into fuel rods for the manufacture of medical isotopes at Iran’s research reactor at Tehran. The advantage for the West was that Iran’s stock of uranium would be taken out of the play for about one year, during which time Iran would not be able to go to highly enriched uranium (HEU) at 90%, sufficient for a nuclear bomb
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Local Survivor Of Chile Earthquake Comes Home (WLKY Louisville)
A North Oldham County teacher who survived the 8.8 magnitude earthquake in Chile will return to the United States Wednesday.
2010
Notice of public interest – Spring Icebreaking on Lake St. Louis
The Canadian Coast Guard would like to notify local residents and all those using the shores of Lake St. Louis that it intends to begin spring icebreaking operations at the entrance of the St. Lawrence Seaway, on the north and south shores of the Lake and in Bay Des Cascades on or about March 9, 2010
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2010
Iron Men Take to New York’s Rooftops, Sidewalks
Produced by HuffPost’s Local Citizen Reporting Team Soon, New York’s skyline is going to start looking a little different. Beginning today and continuing over the next two weeks, 31 life-sized statues will be placed on rooftops and sidewalks around the Flatiron District as part of Antony Gormley’s Event Horizon public art installation. The figures, cast in iron and fiberglass, are set up at different heights and locations throughout the area.
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Kim Jong Il’s Lavish Lifestyle Exposed In New Book ‘In The Dictator’s Service’
Firsthand exposés about the personal lives of North Korea’s leaders can put the lives of their authors at risk, even if they are far away.The latest tell-all, published in Austria by two journalists to whom former Army Col. Kim Jong-ryul told his story, is a case in point. More on North Korea
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Emergency response excercises planned Tuesday at UNCW (The Wilmington Star-News)
Wilmington | Don’t worry if you hear gunfire, emergency sirens and helicopters Tuesday near the University of North Carolina Wilmington. It’s only a test.
Asia-Pacific
Man who shopped for N Korea’s leaders reveals Kim’s whims
A North Korean colonel tells how he shopped in Europe for his country’s dictators’ lavish lifestyles, in a new book.
