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The Labor Department said Friday that the unemployment rate dropped sharply to 8.6 percent, down from 9 percent in October. The rate hasn’t been that low since March 2009, during the depths of the recession. About 13.3 million Americans remain unemployed. Employers added 120,000 jobs last month. And the previous two months were revised up […]
The approval of one business degree Thursday represented both a turning point and a scaled down version of what originally was proposed for the start of Duke Kunshan University, a campus under construction near Shanghai. Duke’s Academic Council voted 44-8, with four professors abstaining, to approve a master’s of management studies degree to be offered […]
SHOWTIME SAYS… The city of Roanoke Rapids has decided to sell it’s 1,500 seat theatre that sits along Interstate 95. The theatre was built in 2005 with a $22 million price tag. The theatre is costing taxpayers $2 million a year and just isn’t panning out how city officials thought it would. The arena hasn’t been […]
A small Kentucky church has chosen to ban marriages and even some worship services for interracial couples. The Gulnare Freewill Baptist Church, located in Pike County, made the vote in response to a longtime member who is engaged to a man whose birthplace is in Zimbabwe. Other pastoral leaders in the area were quick to […]
SHOWTIME SAYS… Earlier this evening a pedestrian was struck by a vehicle and killed while walking along U.S. 401 According to State Police 42-year-old Fausto Cabeza of Fuquay-Varina was heading south near State Road 1010 outside of Garner when he hit a man with his 2003 Ford van. Police were unable to identify the man […]
The agency reported this morning that it has more 99,000 refund checks, totaling $153.3 million, that it has been unable to deliver. The average value of those individual checks is $1,547. In Wake County, 269 people didn’t get checks. In Durham, it was 133. Once you find your name, go to the Where’s my Refund […]
Thank you for making The BSpot Season 1 such a huge success on Fox50. It’s time for Season 2. Join Brian Dawson and friends as we watch the season premier of the BSpot on the 20ft screen, Saturday, December 10th at Thaiphoon Bistro. Everyone is FREE with the invite until 11PM. There will also be […]
SHOWTIME SAYS… Earlier today a school bus carrying North Johnston High School students was involved in an accident and overturned on Oliver Rd at about 3:45. There were between three to five students on board at the time of the accident, and no serious injuries have been reported. The students were taken to Wayne Memorial […]
