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 03/14/10 Wolfpack in Chapel Hill: The NCSU Wolfpack Club's "Pack the House" Coaches Caravan, featuring football's Tom O'Brien, will make the first stop of its 2010 tour Monday (March 15) in Chapel Hill. It begins at 6:30 p.m. at American Legion Post 6.
 03/13/10 HOLLYWOOD, Fla.----The escalating costs of cancer care combined with variations in concordance with evidence-based practice guidelines is putting the United States on a collision course for an impending collapse of its current health care system according to roundtable panelists at the NCCN 15th Annual Conference.
 02/18/10 Orange County is one of the most attractive stretches of the Southern California coast, especially a...
 02/13/10 Five local grapplers qualify for states, while Nature Coast's Scott Cronin becomes school's first regional champ and Hernando's Daniel Pritz sets school record for wins.
 02/12/10 Caroline Sciolla 1 0-0 2; Julia Bonnell 2 0-0 4; Briana Brown 5 2-2 12; Domonique Carter-Stanley 1 0-2 2; Sam Karp 4 2-4 10; Tatiana Brown 1 2-2 4; Casey Correa 3 0-0 9; Greta Savickaite 0 3-4 3. Totals: 17 9-14 46.
 02/11/10 Dominic Berger 5 3-3 13; Ben Foote 4 1-1 10; Shelton Russell 0 2-4 2; Bruno Beca 4 2-2 10; Raffael Cabin 1 0-0 2; Denzel Faison 0 0-0 0. Totals: 14 8-10 37.
 02/09/10 DIY maven Todd P is heading to Monterrey, Mexico to host a music festival at a drive-in movie theater on the side of a mountain (pictured). As previously reported , MtyMx: All Ages Festival of Art and Music overlaps with SXSW on Saturday, March 20, and runs through Monday, March 22. It promises up to 25 bands per day, and the line-up is already looking quite impressive. They've got: No Age ...
 02/09/10 This year's Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival takes place June 10-13 in Manchester, Tennessee. Many bands will play this festival. But instead of just putting them all on a handy .jpg and letting it ride, the folks at Bonnaroo are turning the unveiling into an all-day online event. Head over to the Bonnaroo website and MySpace , where they're announcing the line-up from noon to 9 p.m. Eastern time ...
 02/09/10 Well, it's that time. Last year, Lil Wayne pleaded guilty to attempted gun ownership . This morning, he'll be formally sentenced to a year in prison, based on a deal he struck with Manhattan prosecutors. After he officially enters his guilty plea this morning, he's expected to turn himself in and immediately begin his prison term, as MTV explains . That MTV piece explains what could face Wayne ...
 02/09/10 Photo by Frank Lyon Congratulations, MGMT ! You released a hit album, got nominated for a couple Grammys, and became international style icons. What are you going to do now? Why, as Spin reports , you're going to release a new record April 13 on Columbia ! And it's called Congratulations ! As previously reported , Spacemen 3's Peter "Sonic Boom" Kember produced the album, while Jennifer Herrema ...
 02/08/10 Photo by Paige Parsons MP3:> Erykah Badu: "Window Seat" On March 30, Universal Motown will release New Amerykah Part II: Return of the Ankh , the new album from Erykah Badu . Last week, Badu posted "Jump Up in the Air and Stay There" , a web-only bonus track, on her website. And this weekend, Badu posted the first piece of music we've heard from the album proper to her Twitter . "Window Seat ...
 02/08/10 When splenetic backpack-rapper and slam poet Sage Francis recruited Will Oldham to appear on his 2005 song "Sea Lion", it was borderline shocking. Even though they tended to play the same venues, indie rappers and indie rock bands didn 't have a lot to do with each other. Since then, the two worlds have moved ever closer to one another. And on May 11, Anti- will release Li(f)e , an entire album ...
 02/04/10 Diversified Information Technologies' second acquisition in four months expands the Scranton-based company's reach into the Southeast. Diversified, which provides backup, processing, imaging and recovery services for banks, insurers, hospitals, governmen
 02/04/10 Citigroup Inc. plans to sell or split off its $10 billion Citi Private Equity unit, expanding the list of money-management businesses the U.S. bank is disposing of to reduce debt, people familiar with the matter said.
 02/03/10 Contributions to the Reckless Teenage Driving Awareness scholarship can be made through the Johnston County Education Foundation. To donate, go to to the school system's Web site at www.johnston.k12.nc.us .
 02/02/10 MOORESVILLE, North Carolina -- When NASCAR officials announced that their attitude about officiating races in 2010 will be "Have at it, boys," one of the first thoughts that came to the mind of this skeptic was: "Haven't we seen this before?"
 02/01/10 Another 85 members of the N.C. National Guard 's 30th Heavy Brigade Combat Team returned home Monday from deployment to Iraq , meaning about 700 of the brigade's 4,000 soldiers have come back so far.
 01/22/10 Verdell Jones III hit two late long jumpers, Devan Dumes scored 10 of his 15 points in the second half and Indiana held off Penn State 67-61 on Thursday night for its first road win of the season.
 01/22/10 Cincinnati, OH- Defending home ice, the Cincinnati Cyclones scored three answered to defeat the Kalamazoo Wings 3-1 and in the process reclaim first place in the North Division.
 01/22/10 Bessie Albert, 86, of Fairfield, died Jan. 14, 2010. She was the wife of the late Gilbert Albert ; mother of Aaron Albert of Shelton, Bruce and Debbie Albert of Moodus, Neal and Lan Albert of Shelburne, Vt.; grandmother of Ashley and Mike Stringer , Elyssa Albert and Ming Yan ; and sister of Ruth Lang of Coconut Creek, Fla. Albert is also survived by many nieces, nephews and their children.
 12/17/09 This activity report is provided by the Prince George's County Police Department as a public service to the community and is not a complete listing of all events and crime reported. |