Freshman Dinos Mitoglou helped shoot Wake Forest past Miami. N.C. State couldn’t close out Virginia at home. Louisville won largely without Wayne Blackshear. That, plus a look at Saturday’s crammed schedule, in the ACC night in review. Dinos Mitoglou, Wake…
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ACC basketball night in review: NC State’s NCAA hopes take hit in loss to Virginia
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NASCAR Museum Leaves Charlotte Taxpayers Holding the Bag
by Warner Todd Huston12 Feb 20150 Back in 2010 the city fathers of Charlotte, NC, thought that they were going to experience a multitude of economic benefits from helping to pay for a new NASCAR museum. But they experienced debt…
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Sycamore Park District executive director to teach class in North Carolina
SYCAMORE – Sycamore Park District Executive Director Dan Gibble will be supplying knowledge to the next generation of park leaders at North Carolina State University’s School of Park Maintenance Management. Gibble, who has been the park district’s executive director for…
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Asheville Council approves developments and video policy
Police video and audio recording of events can be held a minimum of 30 days before being destroyed, Asheville City Council decided on Feb. 10. The new rule was one of many items on Council’s consent agenda, and it passed unanimously. So did two…
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Alamance legislators support gas tax changes, have questions
North Carolina state government graphic Posted: Thursday, February 12, 2015 7:11 am | Updated: 7:14 am, Thu Feb 12, 2015. Alamance legislators support gas tax changes, have questions McClatchy Regional News news-record.com A bill that would temporarily cut North Carolina’s…
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Deshaun Watson, Artavis Scott, Daniel Rodriguez make All-ACC academic
GREENSBORO, N.C.—Duke senior linebacker David Helton (Chattanooga, Tenn.), who was named the winner of the Campbell Trophy as the nation’s top football scholar-athlete by the National Football Foundation and College Football Hall of Fame and also earned the ACC’s Jim Tatum…
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Platform overlooking NC/SC border coming to Sassafras Mountain
Legions of hikers and state “highpointers” have had the vision for years that if you build an overlook on Sassafras Mountain, the curious will come. Now, it looks like the idea for an accessible observation platform straddling the North Carolina-South…
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American Airlines Pushes for NC Sales Tax Break
Feb. 05–RALEIGH — State lawmakers are weighing a proposal from American Airlines and other carriers to exempt them from millions of dollars in sales taxes on fuel, a request that could affect Charlotte’s status as one of the nation’s largest…
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Oswego Speedway’s 2015 Commitment Rosters Revealed
OSWEGO, NY – As Oswego Speedway’s 65th anniversary season inches ever closer, more than 40 teams have so far committed to the 2015 season at the Steel Palace, set to take the green flag on May 9 presented by Planet…
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The evolution of the Asheville Mardi Gras Parade
If the weather cooperates on Sunday, Feb. 15, Asheville Mardi Gras executive committee Chair Hobbit Hawes estimates there could be more than 5,000 people lining Wall Street, Battery Park Avenue, Haywood Street and Page Avenue for the volunteer organization’s annual…
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