WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration on Friday proposed tough new standards to improve fuel efficiency and reduce carbon dioxide pollution from trucks and vans, the latest move by President Barack Obama to address global warming. The new rules are…
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Charleston shooting suspect captured in Shelby
Charleston mass murder suspect Dylann Roof remained jailed in Shelby on Thursday afternoon even as the process begins to return him to South Carolina. The 21-year-old Lexington, S.C., resident was arrested just before 11 a.m. Thursday on the western edge…
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Reopening church doors after shooting ‘sends a message’
CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church opened its tall, wooden doors to the world Sunday, embracing strangers who walked in from the street or tuned in from home for the first worship service since a white gunman…
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Latest on church shooting: Funeral set for Sen. Pinckney
9:45 p.m. Funeral plans have been made for South Carolina state Sen. Clementa Pinckney, one of nine victims in the shooting massacre at a Charleston church. A spokesman for Leevy’s Funeral Home in Columbia confirmed the details to The State…
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Polk County People & Changes (June 21)
DENNIS BREWER is handling all estimating and sales for the service division. EMILY SPRINGER has joined the service department full time and will assist in marketing. With the start of its new fiscal year on July 1, Visit Florida, the…
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Kannapolis considers municipal service district
James Nix jnix@independenttribune.com Kannapolis buys more property The vacant K-Town Furniture building in Kannapolis. The City of Kannapolis is buying the property in a move to gain more control over the development of the downtown area. Posted: Saturday, June 20,…
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BOC approves budget, lashes out at Senate’s sales tax plan
The Dare County Board of Commissioners passed a $102 million budget for the next fiscal year that requires no increase in property taxes at its meeting on Wednesday, July 17. And then the board members turned around and denounced the…
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Leonard Pitts Jr.: Charleston’s tragedy is not a surprise
Local News City of Anna Maria hopes new enforcement officers alleviate parking violations
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Charleston deaths renew calls to take down Confederate flag
Some lawmakers have renewed calls to remove the Confederate flag from the Statehouse grounds after the U.S. and South Carolina flags were lowered at the dome this week out of respect for the Charleston shooting victims – while the battle…
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Mayfaire Acquired by One of America’s Largest Mall REITs
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