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  • Volunteers come together to honor fallen soldiers

    Volunteers in North Carolina are coming together to honor fallen soldiers ahead of Memorial Day. Twice a year, for Memorial Day and Veterans Day, volunteers come together to place thousands of flags at local cemeteries to say thank you. The flags line 13 Cumberland County-area cemeteries. In addition to lining the cemeteries, volunteers also read a special prayer for all of the men and women ...

  • Nike to donate $1M to Oklahoma victims

    Nike plans to donate $1 million worth of its products to tornado victims in Oklahoma. The shoe company said it is also working with the Oklahoma City Thunder's Kevin Durant to donate profits from sales of his KD V Elites. The money donated will come from sales of the shoes made on nike.com between May 3 to June 15. The funds will go to a charity that rebuilds playgrounds and the Moore ...

  • NC Ghost Town in the Sky to open

    State inspectors want an emergency access road cut underneath the chairlift at Ghost Town in the ski for safety reasons. As a result, park goers will not be able to visit the top of the ...

  • Officers more visible to keep Speed Street safe

    Over the three-day Speed Street, about 400,000 people are expected to swarm Uptown Charlotte for the fun. This year, some in the crowd noticed changes. "Years past were bigger and funner. More stages. This year, (it's) smaller, one stage and definitely more police officers," said Jennifer Parker. Officers are visible on patrol and watching in ways that some may not see. Cameras ...

  • 2 charged with growing marijuana in Watauga Co. home

    Drug detectives in Watauga County said they found more than $450,000 worth of marijuana growing inside a home. The Watauga County Sheriff's Office charged Jason Blount and Geneva Natale with cultivating and selling pot. Detectives said they found a well-developed growing system using water, not ...


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The Sword of Doom (Dai-bosatsu tôge) [DVD]

The Sword of Doom (Dai-bosatsu tôge) [DVD]

Ending a film with a freeze-frame is a potent and powerfully self-conscious decision, one that invariably draws attention to the final image and literally begs it to, if not explain, then cast an interpretive light on the rest of the film. One might think of the freeze frame of Antoi ... ...

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  • Former Charlotte POW leads hymn at Nixon library

    He’d scribbled the lyrics and music of a hymn on rough toilet paper, using a fish bone whittled to a fine point and red ink concocted from medicine in a diarrhea pill. Quincy Collins of Charlotte, a fighter pilot whose plane was shot down over North Vietnam in 1965, was marking his fourth year in a North Vietnamese POW camp. Morale was awful and Collins had assembled a POW choir to raise ...

  • Police search for bank robber after 2 banks targeted

    Police are looking for a bank robber who they said targeted banks in Mooresville and Huntersville on Friday. Mooresville police believe the man tried to rob the Fifth Third bank on North Main Street first, but didn't get any cash. Then less than two hours later, just after noon, the robber hit a bank on Gilead Road in Huntersville. Chopper 9 Skyzoom flew over the Fifth Third Bank in ...

  • Fire at tire store in Matthews on Friday

    Firefighters battled a blaze at a store in Matthews on Friday, according to town officials. The fire was called in around 7:50 p.m. at 1600 Matthews Mint Hill Road at a Firestone tire store. The road was closed for a brief time but has been reopened. Check back with wsoctv.com for updates to this developing ...

  • Owner says shop broken into just before retirement

    Russ Duren, 85, tried to focus on his work Friday and ignore the broken glass on the sales floor. He has one quest for the thief who stole his jewelry. "Don't you think about anybody else but yourself?" Duren asked. Duren has owned a jewelry store across from City Hall in downtown Gastonia for 61 years. "We've had an awful lot of good customers then sooner or later ...

  • Despite rules backpacks prevalent at Speed Street

    At Speed Street on Friday, Channel 9 saw something the Boston bombers used when they hurt a lot of people in Uptown. Eyewitness News noticed people everywhere wearing backpacks, like the ones the Boston bombers carried their pressure cooker bombs in. Speed Street's rules state backpacks are not allowed, but no one was stopping people using them. Some fans didn't have a problem with ...

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