Former Female Drama Teacher Faces Sex Charges

"GREENSBORO, N.C. (WGHP) – A former Guilford County drama teacher is charged with having sex multiple times with a student.Leanne Macklin, 26, worked as a teacher at Weaver Academy High School for Performing and...

Tax Incentives Causing Plant Shutdowns

Hundreds of job seekers at the Liberty Center in Lancaster, Ohio (population 35,353) lined up to apply for several dozen jobs that will be opening when U.S. Corrugated opens it new cardboard manufacturing plant in...

Slain soldier's husband charged with arson

FAYETTEVILLE -The husband of a Fort Bragg Army nurse whose remains were found in a brush fire three days after she went missing was being held Monday on a charge of first-degree arson over a fire in her apartment building. Marine Cpl. John Wimunc, 23, was in the...

MS-13 on the Run?

"I seriously doubt it. Taking a couple of thugs out of action is a good thing but won’t destroy the gang. Taking away their reason for being an organization - i.e. their ability to make money - will kill MS-13 and...

Training helps bloggers hone professionalism, navigate legal issues

"Miami real estate agent Lucas Lechuga began blogging to share his knowledge of the local market. He didn't bargain for a $25 million defamation lawsuit when he wrote that a Miami developer had gone bankrupt decades...

Indie Rock the Vote: Arcade Fire and Superchunk Team for Obama Campaign Shows

"Arcade Fire and Superchunk Team for Obama Campaign ShowsBy Eliot Van Buskirk EmailApril 22, 2008 | 5:57:33 PMCategories: Shows Barack Obama's iPod contains some Jay-Z songs, but his campaign will receive a boost...

Ownership vs. Rental Costs

"  Faced with a choice between two bad new housing credits proposed by Sens. Johnny Isakson (R-GA) and Debbie Stabenow (D-MI), the Senate merged the two and added several more unwise housing tax incentives and called it the Foreclosure Prevention Act. The Tax Foundation...

Ferrum College, VA in Lockdown After Gunman Spotted

Early this morning a man armed with a gun was seen entering a residence hall at Ferrum College. Police were called and the university was put into lockdown. There were no reported injuries or threats and the school...

Snow Etc. Hitting Eastern US

Looks like the warm spell last weekend was but a tease -- the eastern part of the US will today be hit by a storm system that will bring snow, sleet, rain and other messiness to the Mid-Atlantic region, and go on to wallop the Northeast on Friday. Bundle up and keep an ear...

Ex-Lacrosse Players File Sweeping Federal Lawsuit Against Durham

The Duke saga continues, as the former lacrosse players file a lawsuit that also demands administration changes. The lawsuit calls the criminal case against Reade Seligmann, Collin Finnerty and Dave Evans "one of the most chilling episodes of premeditated police,...

Fleet-Sharing Clubs Throughout The World

New Automotive Culture Phenomenon: Here you will find exhaustive listings, descriptions and links to automobile-sharing clubs, and car-share fractional ownership clubs, as well racetrack clubs, exotic car rental...

Exotic Car Rental Network Launches New Directory Dedicated to Exotic Car Clubs

Exotic Car Rental Network Launches New Directory Dedicated to Exotic Car ClubsPublished January 23rd, 2007 Exotic Car Rental News January 22, 2007, Dallas TX -The Rent Exotic Cars Network (www.RentExoticCars.net) has...

Why the news is better when we make it

I dislike the term ' citizen journalist'. To me it has the cachet of a citizen dentist. But the research community is still using it and a new report has just come out on the topic. According to the study:"When asked what they found valuable about the citizen media sites...

John Edwards' Two Americas

The one he lives in, and the one the rest of us live in. (h/t Dan Riehl)"RALEIGH - Presidential candidate John Edwards and his family recently moved into what county tax officials say is the most valuable home in...

At 114, U.S. woman becomes world's oldest person

A Connecticut woman born to former slaves in the decades following the U.S. Civil War has become the world's oldest person, at 114, according to Guinness World Records. Emma Faust Tillman, born near Greensboro, North Carolina, on November 22, 1892, became the world's oldest...

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