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  • Pregnant mother and young child killed in North Carolina boat collision

    A pregnant woman and a young child were killed Saturday when their family's boat collided with a speedboat on a North Carolina lake.  Wildlife officials said a speedboat collided and went over the top of a pontoon boat around 12:30 p.m. Saturday on the northern part of the High Rock Lake near Linwood. MyFox8.com reports all the victims were family members on the pontoon boat. The ...

  • SC gubernatorial hopeful calls on Haley to dismiss controversial campaign volunteer

    State Sen. Vincent Sheheen of Camden, the presumptive Democratic candidate for governor in 2014, on Saturday joined calls for Gov. Nikki Haley to dismiss a volunteer with her grassroots re-election campaign. That volunteer has ties to a white supremacist group, civil rights groups say. Haley’s campaign responded that Sheheen is in no position to criticize Republican Haley, charging him with ...

  • Recycle Win will reach more towns in Mecklenburg Cabarrus

    Cars like these, except decorated with town and city logos, will patrol neighborhoods in much of Mecklenburg and Cabarrus starting in June as part of the Recycle & Win ...

  • Police Man shot in back in east Charlotte shooting

    One man was in the hospital with life-threatening injuries Saturday night after a shooting on Jenkins Drive in east Charlotte. Police said the man was shot in the back at about 9:30 p.m. Medic responded to the scene, which is located off Albemarle Road, and took the victim to Carolinas Medical Center in Dilworth for treatment. Police had few details about what happened and no suspects in ...

  • Lots on the line in UNC-NC State rubber game

    Durham, N.C. - North Carolina and North Carolina State are each top-10 national baseball programs that happen to be in-state rivals, have a national seed to play for and a conference tournament title chance on the line. When the ACC scheduled them to play the pool-play finale at Durham Bulls Athletic Park Saturday night, they had their fingers crossed that the game would still be ...


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Let Sleeping Corpses Lie (Fin de semana para los muertos) (aka The Living Dead at the Manchester Morgue) [DVD]

Let Sleeping Corpses Lie (Fin de semana para los muertos) (aka The Living Dead at the Manchester Morgue) [DVD]

When Jorge Grau's Let Sleeping Corpses Lie ( Fin de semana para los muertos) was first released in 1974, ripping off George A. Romero's Night of the Living Dead (1968) was not yet a cottage industry. In fact, at the time there had been only a handful of zombie films that owed a debt to Romero's masterpiece, including the shoddy Garden of the Dead and Bob Clark's se ... ...

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  • New N.C. exams test teachers – in more ways than one

    These subjects have N.C. exams this year. Those in bold are considered end-of-grade or end-of-course tests, which will be used to grade schools. The rest are used only to calculate teacher ...

  • Charlotte nurse gets national attention for helping others

    Carolinas Medical Center nurse Nancy James saw her first NASCAR race on Saturday, May 25, 2013 at Charlotte Motor Speedway in Concord, NC, thanks to History Channel's Trace Arnold. Arnold is traveling with the Cross Country Cookout Tour. Jeff Siner - ...

  • Conservancy nature hikes return

    Want to go? The Catawba Lands Conservancy will host three more hikes in the coming months: June 29, 9-11 a.m., Pinhook Preserve/Redlair, near Gastonia. The focus will be on the big-leaf magnolia. July 27, 9-11 a.m., Buffalo Creek Preserve, Mt. Pleasant, Cabarrus County. Aug. 25, 9-11 a.m., Redlair preserve, near Gastonia. The focus will be on the federally endangered Schweintz’s sunflower. ...

  • 1 dead 1 missing in Davidson County boat wreck

    Wildlife officials say a speedboat collided and went over the top of a pontoon boat around 12:30 p.m. Saturday on the northern part of the lake near ...

  • Big cut to NC wildlife agency would hit close to home for hunters anglers

    N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission Created in 1947, the commission’s mission is to conserve and sustain fish and wildlife. It also enforces the state’s hunting, fishing, trapping and boating laws. It employs biologists, wildlife officers, educators and others. The commission manages 2 million acres of public game land; 49 lakes and ponds, including 31 dams; 73 waterfowl impoundments; ...

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