Airline passenger Lyle Finch defied the odds Thursday when he stood up faster than anyone else on American Airlines flight 2211 after it had come to a complete stop. Finch was subsequently awarded the gold medal to honor his incredible speed and initiative.
Published: Wednesday, November 8th, 2023 @ 11:54 pm
By: Babylon Bee
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The OceanGate submersible tragedy, which resulted in the deaths of five people, is being turned into a feature film from MindRiot Entertainment after the group landed the rights to make the docuseries “Salvaged” about the incident.
Published: Friday, October 13th, 2023 @ 6:03 pm
By: Daily Wire
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Pirate Nation Gives provides limitless possibilities
Published: Saturday, April 1st, 2023 @ 9:49 am
By: ECU News Services
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A new cancer treatment involving flash technology is being developed in Europe with the prospect of increased effectiveness and fewer side effects for cancer patients.
Published: Tuesday, November 29th, 2022 @ 10:18 pm
By: Daily Wire
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Local ophthalmologist Dr. Kyler Moore has admitted that the air puff machine doesn't measure anything, and eye doctors do that purely for the joy of watching people flinch.
Published: Sunday, November 13th, 2022 @ 12:00 am
By: Babylon Bee
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A star in deep space from a neutron star “graveyard” is emitting a strange pulse that is intriguing scientists who didn’t expect to detect any radio emissions at all from that area.
Published: Monday, June 6th, 2022 @ 10:42 am
By: Daily Wire
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Mr. Marvin LeRoy “Lee” Mills, Jr., age 62, a resident of 227 Clayton Street, Washington, died Wednesday, April 24, 2019 at his home.
Published: Wednesday, May 1st, 2019 @ 5:56 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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The sun keeps shining on North Carolina's renewable energy investors - at taxpayers' expense
Published: Monday, July 9th, 2018 @ 2:57 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Mrs. Lucy Mae Mills Alligood, age 99, a former resident of East 8th Street, Washington, died Monday, February 12, 2018 at River Trace Nursing and Rehabilitation Center in Washington
Published: Thursday, February 15th, 2018 @ 3:08 pm
By: Announcements
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Gov. Roy Cooper has given a high political profile to the discharge of the GenX chemical compound into the Cape Fear River
Published: Sunday, August 20th, 2017 @ 8:49 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Spanish-speaking customers frequently came to Concepto Latino in Durham for notary public services
Published: Tuesday, July 25th, 2017 @ 6:41 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Round one of this year's legislative session is over. But they'll be back
Published: Sunday, July 2nd, 2017 @ 8:57 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The state Senate unanimously concurred to the amended changes from the House on Senate Bill 410
Published: Friday, June 30th, 2017 @ 10:17 am
By: Bill Cook
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State Rep. Chris Millis says the renewable energy industry hoodwinked North Carolina about the costs of giving special deals to renewable producers, which exploded from an initial projection of less than $5 million to $1.6 billion in payouts through 2016
Published: Friday, May 26th, 2017 @ 5:11 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The controversy over the possible impact of wind energy turbines on military base operations has not blown over, even though none of the relevant bills met the April 27 legislative crossover deadline
Published: Tuesday, May 9th, 2017 @ 1:04 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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House members on April 26 passed House Bill 527, Restore/Preserve Campus Free Speech, but not without some partisan sparring over the necessity of the legislation
Published: Friday, April 28th, 2017 @ 3:41 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Consumers are paying a lot more than they realize to prop up the renewable energy industry in North Carolina, even though a section of their bills supposedly lists the cost
Published: Wednesday, April 19th, 2017 @ 1:05 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Rep. Dennis Riddell, R-Alamance, has resurrected legislation to create a task force to identify and eliminate regulations harming the state's economic climate and stunting business growth
Published: Friday, March 31st, 2017 @ 5:02 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Gov. Roy Cooper’s proposal to try to lure the film industry to make movies, TV shows, and commercials in North Carolina by returning to an abandoned tax incentives program is meeting resistance
Published: Sunday, March 5th, 2017 @ 12:36 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper's selection of Rep. Susi Hamilton as secretary of natural and cultural resources is emblematic of the philosophical contrast between Cooper and the GOP legislative majority, state Rep. Chris Millis said
Published: Tuesday, January 24th, 2017 @ 6:16 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Motor vehicle "biofuels" like ethanol made from corn and soybeans may cause more carbon emissions than gasoline, based on a new study from John DeCicco, a professor and researcher at the University of Michigan Energy Institute, challenging claims by environmentalists that vehicles using biofuels are
Published: Tuesday, November 22nd, 2016 @ 11:56 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The 2016 short session of the General Assembly adjourned leaving plenty of items on the table, and some of them could be revived during the 2017 long session
Published: Saturday, July 9th, 2016 @ 12:13 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The 2016 edition of regulatory reform is beginning to emerge as both the House and the Senate piece together their respective versions, which focus on curtailing costly rules and making the process of imposing regulations more accountable to the public
Published: Friday, June 10th, 2016 @ 5:12 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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It's cheap to borrow right now. That doesn't mean you ought to load up with new debt, however, and this same wisdom applies to the public sector
Published: Wednesday, June 1st, 2016 @ 7:17 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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State Rep. Chris Millis, R-Pender, believes voters were misled into believing the $2 billion Connect NC bond referendum passed in March mainly will finance roads and bridges, and has introduced legislation to strip $490 million of bond funding from state universities and reallocate it for roads
Published: Friday, May 20th, 2016 @ 5:06 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Two prominent state lawmakers pushing to make North Carolina's energy policy more friendly to consumers say they will press vigorously for freezing or reducing state mandates to use more renewable energy when the General Assembly returns for the 2016 short session.
Published: Wednesday, January 6th, 2016 @ 10:40 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Governor McCrory signed Senate Bill 698 (Legacy Medical Care Facility/CON Exempt) into law on October 28, 2015.
Published: Wednesday, January 6th, 2016 @ 2:53 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Well, they did it. Thumbed their collective noses at those of us who voted to give them super-majorities in Raleigh.
Published: Tuesday, September 29th, 2015 @ 5:48 am
By: Brant Clifton
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A devilish plot is afoot to impose new national taxes on the American People.
Published: Monday, September 14th, 2015 @ 2:44 am
By: Publius Huldah
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The "Balanced Budget Amendment" movement (Article V Convention) is an insidious plot to impose a new national tax!!
Published: Saturday, August 22nd, 2015 @ 5:45 pm
By: Diane Rufino
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State Rep. Chris Millis, R-Pender, warns North Carolina "may be on the way to [becoming] the next Superfund site" because it lacks a closure plan for hundreds of millions of tons of solar farm materials containing hazardous substances when the solar facilities wear out.
Published: Tuesday, August 11th, 2015 @ 10:06 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Senate Bill 374 (Modify For-Hire License Logbook Requirement) sponsored by Senator Bill Cook (R-District 1) recently came back to the Senate from the House for concurrence.
Published: Friday, August 7th, 2015 @ 1:25 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Internet giant Google collected $262 million in incentives when it located a data center in North Carolina, and now is urging the General Assembly to continue offering hundreds of millions of dollars in subsidies to renewable energy investors.
Published: Wednesday, July 1st, 2015 @ 3:44 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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While Duke Energy is passing higher costs to ratepayers because state law forces it to purchase renewable energy, the utility also claimed a whopping $62.8 million in tax write-offs in 2014 for its own investments in green power projects.
Published: Thursday, June 11th, 2015 @ 3:36 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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