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East Carolina University police officers responded - multiple times - to reports of a gunman in a residence hall on campus July 8-12. Fortunately, it was just part of a weeklong training using the Advanced Law Enforcement Rapid Response Training curriculum.
Published: Friday, July 12th, 2013 @ 11:52 pm
By: ECU News Services
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The Critical Care Societies Collaborative, in partnership with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), recently announced recipients of the 2013 National Awards Program to Recognize Achievements in Eliminating Health Care-Associated Infections (HAIs).
Published: Friday, July 12th, 2013 @ 11:44 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Mr. Charles Bonner, 81, of 2254 N. Boyd Road, Pinetown, died Sunday, July 7, 2013, at Vidant Beaufort Hospital.
Published: Friday, July 12th, 2013 @ 2:19 pm
By: Announcements
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Martha Steadman Simpson, 59, of 1051 Creek Drive, Washington, died Wednesday, July 10, 2013, at Vidant Medical Center, Greenville.
Published: Friday, July 12th, 2013 @ 2:15 pm
By: Announcements
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The 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Denver ruled recently that an Oklahoma City-based company, Hobby Lobby, could proceed with a lawsuit challenging a U.S. Department of Health and Human Services mandate linked to Obamacare. The mandate requires companies to provide insurance covering...
Published: Friday, July 12th, 2013 @ 12:13 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Freshman year in college is a time of celebration for most. Freed from the babysitting and busy-working grind of high school as well as from the direct supervision of family members, most freshmen revel in their newfound liberty. It is a profoundly strange time for anybody to be...
Published: Friday, July 12th, 2013 @ 11:55 am
By: John William Pope Center
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A Long Island, N.Y., woman has spent nearly two years trying to convince the Internal Revenue Service and the U. S. Postal Service that persons with...
Published: Friday, July 12th, 2013 @ 1:44 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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As a result of the investigation, Investigator Jim Adams applied for and obtained warrants charging Pamela Sue Koonce, age 26, of Deer Track Drive in Washington with one count of Identity Theft and three counts of Obtaining Property by False Pretense.
Published: Friday, July 12th, 2013 @ 1:38 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Mr. Charles Evans Rice, age 60, a resident of Chocowinity, died Thursday, July 11, 2013 at Kindred Hospital in Greensboro.
Published: Friday, July 12th, 2013 @ 1:17 am
By: Announcements
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Mr. Gary Gene Faircloth, age 67, who recently moved to South Carolina from Wilmington, NC, died Tuesday, July 9, 2013.
Published: Friday, July 12th, 2013 @ 1:11 am
By: Announcements
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Governor Pat McCrory announced the following appointments today.
Published: Friday, July 12th, 2013 @ 1:00 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Governor Pat McCrory's Partnership for a Healthy North Carolina is an innovative approach to redesign the state's Old Medicaid system into a safety net that improves patients' health and saves taxpayer dollars.
Published: Thursday, July 11th, 2013 @ 11:21 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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On June 13 the state Department of Public Instruction (DPI) released Common Core Demystified. The document was intended to quell what DPI regarded as confusion and stem the growing public opposition to Common Core Standards (CCS).
Published: Thursday, July 11th, 2013 @ 11:21 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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House Speaker Thom Tillis may be the single most important person in state government right now and he's got some pretty important decisions to make in the next few days...critical decisions that impact our state, but also his own political future.
Published: Thursday, July 11th, 2013 @ 11:20 pm
By: Tom Campbell
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Hopefully Chantal is a memory, however, we are keeping an eye on her remnants. We do have a very wet pattern developing for the next 72 hours and we must urge: “Be Weather Aware”.
Published: Thursday, July 11th, 2013 @ 10:41 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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It's been the conventional wisdom that State House Speaker Thom Tillis was national Republicans' odds-on favorite to take on incumbent Democrat US Senator Kay Hagan in November 2014.
Published: Thursday, July 11th, 2013 @ 10:08 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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A top legislative architect of the General Assembly's tax reform efforts said Wednesday that both House and Senate leaders are at the negotiating...
Published: Thursday, July 11th, 2013 @ 9:19 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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As a result of the search Investigators seized 6 grams of crack-cocaine, crack-cocaine manufacturing material digitals scales and $720.00 in US currency from the residence. Investigators also seized a quantity of marijuana prepackaged for resale from one of the vehicles at the residence.
Published: Thursday, July 11th, 2013 @ 8:52 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Governor Pat McCrory announced today that financial assistance is available for survivors of the severe storms that struck Stanly and adjoining counties June 13.
Published: Thursday, July 11th, 2013 @ 1:20 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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ne hundred years of affliction is a long time. The time has come for tax reform.... No, the time has come for a tax revolution.
Published: Thursday, July 11th, 2013 @ 11:45 am
By: Diane Rufino
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Is the state government of North Carolina illegitimate? Based on the volume of emails and Facebook messages I've received lately, liberal politicians and organizations are shopping the idea that the Republican-led legislature and McCrory administration lack the moral authority to enact...
Published: Thursday, July 11th, 2013 @ 5:16 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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You've never heard of Sarah Danaher or the company she founded, Ampersand Photography. What makes Sarah's story interesting is that she could easily have gone to college after finishing high school, but chose not to. She likes learning, but is passionate about photography and didn't want to...
Published: Thursday, July 11th, 2013 @ 4:36 am
By: John William Pope Center
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An awful lot of us on the right worked hard to get Pat McCrory into the governor's mansion in Raleigh. There was a lot of excitement in 2012 about the potential for fundamental change a GOP majority and GOP governor could bring to state government.
Published: Thursday, July 11th, 2013 @ 4:32 am
By: Brant Clifton
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Unless significant changes and clarifications are made addressing our concerns that were clearly communicated by DHHS Secretary Aldona Wos, Governor Pat McCrory will veto the existing bill, HB 695, if it is passed by the House and Senate.
Published: Wednesday, July 10th, 2013 @ 2:59 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Contrary to recent media reports, North Carolina has taken out federal loans to operate its underfunded unemployment insurance system, and it is the state's obligation to see that $2.5 billion debt is repaid, said Dale Folwell, state assistant secretary of employment security.
Published: Wednesday, July 10th, 2013 @ 2:59 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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If one is interested in what realistically passes for total Conservative political discourse in Beaufort County, one must visit the Conservative Republican Club, Thursday Night, July 11, 2013.
Published: Wednesday, July 10th, 2013 @ 1:50 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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There have been two turning points in Harold Varner's career as an East Carolina golfer. The first came at the end of his freshman year when he struggled on the course and in the classroom.
Published: Wednesday, July 10th, 2013 @ 12:56 pm
By: ECU News Services
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Goose Creek State Park calendar of events for the month of July, 2013.
Published: Wednesday, July 10th, 2013 @ 12:32 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Following weeks of negotiation, the Senate has again made modifications to our tax reform plan to better satisfy the needs of North Carolinians and compel the support of the House and Governor.
Published: Wednesday, July 10th, 2013 @ 12:07 pm
By: Bill Cook
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The modern-day conservatives who inhabit the General Assembly, the executive branch, and other institutions believe that the state's best days still lay ahead. But they recognize that North Carolina's traditional public policies have to change before progress is possible.
Published: Wednesday, July 10th, 2013 @ 11:38 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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A LOT of my Tea Party friends from the Charlotte area are just cooing over the potential US Senate candidacy of Baptist pastor Mark Harris.
Published: Wednesday, July 10th, 2013 @ 11:32 am
By: Brant Clifton
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Governor Pat McCrory joined Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) Secretary Aldona Wos and DHHS CIO Joe Cooper today to visit the NCTracks call center and command center.
Published: Wednesday, July 10th, 2013 @ 10:59 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Democratic lawmakers and left-leaning activists are advancing a meritless argument that unemployment benefits are an economic stimulus, critics say.
Published: Wednesday, July 10th, 2013 @ 5:17 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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We should be dedicating ourselves to recapturing the state and federal tax dollars that are taken away Beaufort County residents by sourcing grants from outside our community to help fund local needs and by cutting the regulatory burdens placed on local businesses.
Published: Wednesday, July 10th, 2013 @ 5:12 am
By: Warren Smith
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