Author: Martha Waggoner
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UNC officials condemn statue toppling
CHAPEL HILL, N.C. • North Carolina university officials and a former governor condemned the toppling of a century-old Confederate memorial on the state’s flagship campus by protesters who said its presence on campus was rooted in racism. The University of North Carolina system’s president and the chairman of the Board of Governors on Tuesday promised…
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Shiver me timbers! New signs pirates liked booty _ and books
RALEIGH, N.C. — Dead men tell no tales, but there’s new evidence that somebody aboard the pirate Blackbeard’s flagship harbored books among the booty. In an unusual find, researchers have discovered shreds of paper bearing legible printing that somehow survived three centuries underwater on the sunken vessel. And after more than a year of research…
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‘Penance’: NC congressman writes to families of dead troops
RALEIGH, N.C. — On a Sunday morning more than two weeks after four U.S. soldiers were ambushed and killed in Niger, Rep. Walter Jones sat at the desk in his North Carolina office, doing what he’s done more than 11,000 times in 14 years: signing letters to families of the dead troops. “My heart aches…
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Officer on leave after video of student being thrown down
School Resource Officer Ruben De Los Santos was placed on paid administrative leave. O’Rourke, Kali
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Folk musician Doc Watson dies in NC hospital at 89
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. — Doc Watson, the Grammy-award winning folk musician whose lightning-fast style of flatpicking influenced guitarists around the world for more than a half-century, died Tuesday at a hospital in Winston-Salem, according to a hospital spokeswoman and his manager. He was 89. Watson, who was blind from age 1, recently had abdominal surgery that…
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Folk musician Doc Watson dies in NC hospital at 89
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. — Doc Watson, the Grammy-award winning folk musician whose lightning-fast style of flatpicking influenced guitarists around the world for more than a half-century, died Tuesday at a hospital in Winston-Salem, according to a hospital spokeswoman and his manager. He was 89. Watson, who was blind from age 1, recently had abdominal surgery that…
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Folk musician Doc Watson dies in NC hospital at 89
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. — Doc Watson, the Grammy-award winning folk musician whose lightning-fast style of flatpicking influenced guitarists around the world for more than a half-century, died Tuesday at a hospital in Winston-Salem, according to a hospital spokeswoman and his manager. He was 89. Watson, who was blind from age 1, recently had abdominal surgery that…
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North Carolina approves amendment on gay marriage
RALEIGH, N.C. — North Carolina voters approved a constitutional amendment Tuesday defining marriage solely as a union between a man and a woman, becoming the latest state to effectively slam the door shut on same-sex marriages. With 35 percent of precincts reporting Tuesday, unofficial returns showed the amendment passing with about 58 percent of the…
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Billy Graham backs anti-gay marriage amendment
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save RALEIGH, N.C. — The Rev. Billy Graham urged North Carolina voters Wednesday to support an amendment to the state constitution banning gay marriage, a move that an observer said was highly unusual but another said…
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Billy Graham backs anti-gay marriage amendment
RALEIGH, N.C. — The Rev. Billy Graham urged North Carolina voters Wednesday to support an amendment to the state constitution banning gay marriage, a move that an observer said was highly unusual but another said was in keeping with the minister’s moral beliefs. “Watching the moral decline of our country causes me great concern,” said…