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  • Top of the List General Contractors

    Balfour Beatty Construction's Charlotte office billed $418 million in 2012. This weeks Charlotte Business Journal lists the areas top general contractors, ranked by 2012 local billings. Balfour Beatty Construction tops the list again this year with $418 million in local billings. Balfour Beatty lists the SPX Corp. headquarters and Peak 10s Charlotte 4 data center in University Research Park ...

  • Jennifer Lopez teams with Verizon on retail startup

    Jennifer Lopez is getting into the mobile phone business with Viva Movil, aimed at Hispanic consumers. Jennifer Lopez may not be an expert on mobile technology just yet, but the star claims deep knowledge of the Latino consumer and says she will be using that insight to form a partnership with Verizon Wireless (NYSE:VZ) on a chain of targeted mobile-phone stores called Viva Movil. Lopez, whose ...

  • Analyst Neiman Saks merger not likely to happen soon Video

    May 23 (Bloomberg) -- Bloomberg's Betty Liu reports on today's "Top Headlines." She speaks on Bloomberg Television's "In The Loop." Neiman Marcus' private-equity owners have held on to the retailer for eight years. Don't expect a merger between Neiman Marcus Group and Saks Fifth Avenue anytime soon, even though news reports this week have indicated such a deal ...

  • NC Senate OKs $20.5 billion budget

    The N.C. Senate has passed a $20.5 billion budget. The N.C. Senate passed 33 to 17 on Thursday a $20.5 billion spending plan that includes a $770 million tax cut over the next two fiscal years, the Triangle Business Journal reports. Unexplained, however, are exactly how the cuts will be made. Senate leaders had earlier unveiled a tax-reform package that reduced personal and corporate rates over ...

  • Compromise reached with veterans over hospital name change

    A compromise has been reached between Gaston County veterans and CaroMont Health. Eyewitness News first reported about the controversy in April, when veterans were upset that CaroMont chose to change the name of the hospital from Gaston Memorial to CaroMont Regional Medical Center. "Gaston County, outside of Fayetteville, has the highest density of veterans in the state of North ...


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Movie Review

Salesman [DVD]

Salesman [DVD]

What is it about salesmen that bring to mind failure? From Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman to David Mamet's Glengarry Glen Ross, dramas on page, stage, and screen have consistently cast salesmen in the role of the tragic loser--the fundamental prototype of the failed American dream. Maybe it is because it is their job to peddle the wares of the American dream--those desirable ma ... ...

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  • Salisbury police investigating homicide on Calhoun St.

    Salisbury police said they are investigating a homicide of a woman at an apartment complex on Calhoun Street. Investigators received a search warrant Thursday night and were inside the apartment collecting evidence. Neighbors told Eyewitness News a landlord informed them around 8:30 p.m. a woman had been found stabbed to death inside the apartment and neighbors said a man has turned himself in ...

  • CMS fights to find funds to keep teacher assistants

    Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools Superintendent Heath Morrison fought for more money to keep hundreds of workers employed, but he was met with a grim response. Councilman Bill James said the county doesn't have extra money to give CMS the full amount it requested. James said the county is already looking at a huge debt to repay homeowners for their botched property tax revaluations. He said ...

  • Kevin James is ready to crack wise in Charlotte

    May 23--Before he was an MMA fighter, before he was a Zookeeper, a Grown Up, a Mall Cop or a King of Queens, Kevin James was a stand-up ...

  • Earnhardt recalls connections with Charlotte speedway

    Dale Earnhardt Jr. climbs into his car during practice Friday for Saturday night's NASCAR Sprint All-Star auto race at Charlotte Motor Speedway in Concord, N.C. (Bob Jordan | Associated ...

  • Employee at police department accused of taking $2k gun

    Since 2009, Melissa Guillet was responsible for the security of seized and found property items at the Matthews Police Department. Eyewitness News learned Thursday she's accused of stealing $2,000 and a gun from evidence. No one answered when Channel 9 went by her home in north Charlotte. Her neighbor said Guillet's estranged husband made a surprising comment to her a few weeks ago. ...

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