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Busch Seeks Weekend Sweep at Charlotte
Kyle Busch does a burnout after winning the NASCAR Nationwide Series race on Saturday afternoon. CHUCK BURTON | THE ASSOCIATED ...
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Crews respond to report of drowning on Lake Wylie
Rescue crews staged on the 4700 block of East Liberty Road at Buster Boyd Road after a report of a drowning in Lake Wylie in York, S.C. Charlotte Fire Department also responded to assist the York County Sheriff's Department. Crews were searching the main channel of the lake Saturday night. Eyewitness News has a crew on scene. Check back with wsoctv.com for updates to this developing ...
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Cleveland Co. official wants to help Okla. ‘sister county’
A commissioner in Cleveland County is pitching a plan to work closer with Cleveland County in Oklahoma after a tornado ripped through the area last week. Families and volunteers are sifting through rubble in Moore, Okla., trying to salvage anything they can. This is the biggest reason why a local commissioner wants to make a long-term commitment to help. Twenty-four people were killed in the ...
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Police Person shot in back Saturday night
One person was shot in the back Saturday night, according to police. The shooting happened around 9:30 p.m. on Jenkins Drive near Albemarle Road. The person was taken to a hospital. Check back with wsoctv.com for updates to this developing ...
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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 ...
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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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Police Child pregnant woman killed in boat crash on NC lake
Searchers found the body of a pregnant woman who died Saturday in a boat crash on a North Carolina lake. Police said the crash in Davidson County also killed the woman's young daughter. They said the family was on a pontoon boat when it was hit by a speed boat around 12:30 p.m. No one was wearing a life ...
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SC senator wants to get to bottom of IRS controversy
South Carolina Sen. Tim Scott says he's dedicated to getting to the bottom of the IRS controversy.Scott was in North Carolina on Saturday. He said over the past two days, dozens of nonprofit groups have come forward claiming they were targeted by the IRS.He said some of the groups are from South Carolina and he expects the list to continue to grow."Now, we're finding not only were ...
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Friend still in disbelief after woman stabbed to death
Eyewitness News has learned new details about the final hours before a Salisbury woman's death. Police said Tasha West was killed Thursday by her boyfriend Tony Luther. "I just can't believe anybody would do something like that. It wasn't love," Dorianne Molina said. Molina told Eyewitness News that West was her best friend and roommate. She said she desperately tried ...
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Officials Man charged with murder after wife found fatally shot
A Lincoln County man is charged with first-degree murder after his wife was found shot to death at their residence west of Lincolnton.Terry Lee White, 54, of 1243 Rose Hill Drive, Lincolnton, called 911 at 12:30 p.m. Saturday and told dispatch he had shot his wife and was threatening to take his own ...
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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 - ...
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We must define the nature and scope of this struggle, or else it will define us. Neither I, nor any President can promise the total defeat of terror. What we must do is dismantle networks that pose a direct danger.
Barack Obama
The U.S. president was speaking on his administration's counter terrorism policy.
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Beach Rotana Hotel & Towers
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