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  • BCBS influence waning with NC lawmakers

    Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina is used to having considerable clout in the legislature. Although the state’s largest health insurer hasn’t always gotten its way, for years it has negotiated behind the scenes to mold bills more to the company’s liking. All that’s changed. Blue Cross has seen bills fly out of committee with its wishes ignored repeatedly this ...

  • Change keeps this Classic fresh

    (L-R) Press operator Andy Neura and Ed Stone, head of Enterprise Strategy and Implementation of Classic Graphics discuss Classic's Digital Technology on Monday, May 13, 2013. Jeff Siner - ...

  • UNC claims ACC Regular Season Championship

    Chapel Hill, N.C. - A six-run eighth inning propelled No. 2 North Carolina (47-7, 21-6 ACC) to its first ACC Regular Season Championship since 1990 Friday night as the Tar Heels downed No. 7 Virginia (44-9, 21-8 ACC), 8-5.Trailing 5-2 entering the bottom of the eighth inning the Tar Heels were facing an uphill battle as Virginia entered the contest 37-0 when leading after seven innings and had ...

  • Artsplosure tops downtown Raleigh bucket list

    Raleigh, N.C. - The social media gurus behind downtown Raleigh's "Live, Work, Play" have partnered with Offline Media to come up with a summer contest designed to draw visitors to the capital city and to push residents to try new activities within city limits.The Downtown Raleigh Bucket List features 16 suggested experiences, starting with this weekend's Artsplosure, to cross ...

  • Good news Gas is low as summer driving begins

    Raleigh, N.C. - With Memorial Day and a season of day trips, beach weekends and family vacations right around the corner, gas prices are a source of good news to drivers.On Western Boulevard in Raleigh Friday, a gallon of regular unleaded gas cost about $3.42. Elsewhere in the Triangle, it can be had for even less. Sheila Harris' eagle eyes found gas at $3.27 per gallon on South ...


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Nathaniel Hawthorne could have been thinking about Bob Crane when he wrote in The Scarlet Letter, No man for any considerable period can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true. Since he was brutally murdered by having his head smashed in with a camera tripod in a Scottsdale, Arizona, apartment in 1978, Bob Crane ... ...

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  • Community colleges high school put emphasis on training for manufacturing jobs

    McCrory pokes fun at staff Gov. Pat McCrory ribbed a couple of his top advisers Friday as he introduced them to a group of industry and community college leaders. One of them, education adviser Eric Guckian, who previously worked for New Leaders for New Schools and Teach for America, said he shared McCrory’s belief that the connection between education and the workforce “is ...

  • Officials report fatality at I-77 wreck

    Details are still developing, but MEDIC has confirmed at least one person was killed in a vehicle accident on Interstate 77 southbound near Sunset Road. The wreck was reported shortly before 8 p.m. Crews are currently still on the ...

  • Make some music at Artsplosure

    Terri Dollar figures everybody knows how to play at least one song on the piano.And even if you don't, that's OK.Six pianos have been rolled into place for Artsplosure, Raleigh's premier arts festival taking place this weekend, so those who go can tickle the ivories just for ...

  • PNC Bank drawn to south Charlotte as it seeks to add branches

    As it heads into its second year in the Charlotte market, PNC Bank is scouting locations to open more branches in what is already a highly competitive city for banks. Pittsburgh-based PNC Financial Services Group is eyeing sites in south Charlotte but is also looking at other areas, said Weston Andress, president of the bank’s western North Carolina operation. PNC, with 17 branches in ...

  • NC deputy shoots kills blade-wielding woman

    The Wake County Sheriff's Office said 33-year-old Misty Michelle Mullins was shot after breaking into a second home around midday Friday. Deputies responded to a 911 call that a woman had broken into a previous home and threatened the resident with a garden ...

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