North Carolina considers Sunday ban on beer wine sales
North Carolina lawmakers introduced bills to prohibit beer and wine sales from midnight Saturday to 7 am Monday and urged repeal of year-long daylight saving time. Rep. William Hiatt said the ban targets taverns and package stores to reduce Monday absenteeism and boost highway safety.
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Raleigh
North Carolina
William Hiatt
Rurry
Hiatt
Congress
DeBruhl
Asheville
Lawyer accuses NC official of pulling pistol on him
Durham lawyer Eugene C. Brooks accuses Nicholas A. Smith, director of the DMV License and Theft Bureau, of pulling a pistol on him after a stop on Interstate 40. Brooks says the incident occurred en route to Raleigh. Smith says he pulled the pistol from his pocket but denies aiming it at Brooks. Smith later cited Brooks for speeding 70 in a 55 zone.
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Raleigh
Durham
Eugene C. Brooks
Nicholas A. Smith
Division of Motor Vehicles
Brooks
Smith
Ted Harrison
Department of Transportation
Chapel Hill
Liscense and Theft Bureau
Market Drifts Lower In Dull Trading Session
The stock market drifted lower on Thursday as investors stood on the sidelines. NYSE volume was 14.02 million shares with the Dow Jones industrial average mixed. American Motors led volume gains while Coca Cola Bottling rebounded after merger talks ended. The NASDAQ composite fell 24 to 94.93 amid broad selling.
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New York
E' Aisar
Uber
Jackson
American Motors
Coca-Cola Bottling
Coca- Cola Co
Penn Group
Nixon
Southern Co
Westinghouse Electric
Roanoke Shelter Home Takes In Missing Boy From Bus
A 13 year old, Timothy Dix, says his mother abandoned him on a Greyhound bus. He was found in Roanoke December 26 and is living in a shelter while authorities seek his family. Police report he lived previously in Washington Philadelphia and Scranton, with no clear leads on his mother Berthine and his sister Maddie.
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Timothy Leon Dix
Timothy
Greyhound
Berthine
Mattie
Maddie
Harrisonburg
John
R. W. Garnett
Front Street
Washington
Anthony Wayne School
Anthony Wayne
Philadelphia
Scranton
St. Nicholas
Garnett
James Sidney
Dix
Sgt. Garnett
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