Art Walk on Union will feature more than 90 local artists and makers, and live performances throughout the afternoon on Union Street North near the Concord Library.
- Mark Price The Charlotte Observer
An ingenious inmate needed only a pencil to open his cell and escape from jail, according to investigators in South Carolina.
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Rebuilding Interstate 40’s path through the Pigeon River Gorge after Hurricane Helene will cost about $2.8 billion — a 40% increase over a projection earlier this year.
- RICHARD CRAVER Winston-Salem Journal
The Mocksville plant will be just its second outside Ohio.
- RICHARD CRAVER Winston-Salem Journal
Novant Health Inc. core operating revenue was up 9.4% to $6.24 billion.
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Scheyer was succinct in stating his goal for his fifth season as head coach: “Take that final step for a sixth banner in Durham and win a national championship.”
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UNIVERSITY PARK, Texas — After approximately 30 years of mediocrity, Bill Armstrong had enough. The oil and gas billionaire knew SMU football's 1987 death penalty from the NCAA for illegally paying players was the catalyst for the program's generation-long downward spiral. But he believed the length of his alma mater's purgatory was somewhat self-imposed. "The first thing I had to do, to be ...
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RV UNCG men’s soccer drew 1-1 at Dayton after a weather delay, with Caleb Borneo scoring in the first half before the Flyers equalized in the 76th minute.
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UNCG volleyball swept App State 3-0 at the Clemson Invitational, earning its first sweep of the season behind double-digit kills from Sweet, Lanclos and Siler-Nixon.
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