To the editor: For the first time in decades, North Carolina’s poor, rural counties stand a chance of prosperity. Jim Hunt decided to export our state’s manufacturing jobs, concentrate the poor in the rural counties and create the most regressive…

Hailey, Beverly Boyd Haskins Beverly Boyd Haskins Hailey, or B2H2 as she often signed herself, passed away peacefully on Sunday, February 8, 2015 at the age of 90.A longtime Lynchburg resident, Beverly Hailey was born in Winston-Salem, North Carolina in…

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Former University of North Carolina basketball coach Dean Smith died Saturday evening in Chapel Hill, N.C., according to a statement released by the university. He was 83 years old. “Coach Dean Smith passed away peacefully the evening of February 7…

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Mr Dunlop, who’s now with the Association for the study of Peak Oil and Gas, says Australia will be one of the hardest hit by a rise in global temperatures.”We’re one of the driest continents on the earth and the…

COLUMBIA – The first person to notice her is an Alabama player, who spots Debbie Antonelli standing in a corner of Colonial Life Arena and breaks from the team shootaround to trot over and say hello. Soon assistants, support personnel,…

Faced with seeking more revenue sources in tight budget times, Mount Airy officials are eyeing local tourism taxes as one possibility. Those funds, which come from a 6 percent occupancy tax on rentals at local lodging establishments, represent a growing…

Communities Ocean Springs’ Stephanie Lee, subject of Katrina story in Esquire magazine, dies at 37

UPHAM, N.M. (AP) – The only thing interrupting the creosote and mesquite that make up one of New Mexico’s most remote stretches of desert is a pristine runway where Virgin Galactic plans one day to launch the world’s first commercial…