Massive 200000 crowd gathers for August Jam at Charlotte venue
At Charlotte Motor Speedway a rock concert drew an estimated 200000 fans with Emerson Lake and Palmer and The Allman Brothers Band headlining. Over 100 treated at Cabarrus Memorial Hospital mostly for overdoses. five admitted. 24 arrests for drugs. Fence breaches and traffic jams reported as attendees camped and swarmed the site.
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Charlotte
N.C
Charlotte Motor Speedway
Cabarrus County Memorial Hospital
Richard Howard
The
Speedway
Howard
Emerson, Lake and Palmer
Allman Brothers
Cabarrus County
Rick Stancil
U.S. 29
Ray Atwood
Allman Brothers Motor Speedway
Carson is NC GOP AG nominee unopposed
James H. Carson Jr. won the North Carolina Republican nomination for attorney general by acclamation at a one hour meeting. The Charlotte lawyer, 39, previously served in the state House and on the Court of Appeals, and will face Democrat Rufus Edmisten in November to fill the remaining two years of Morgan’s term. Carson vows a statewide task force to fight organized crime and criticizes Edmisten’s lack of North Carolina government experience.
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Raleigh
James H. Carson Jr
Charlotte
Jim Holshouser
North Carolina
Carson
State Court of Appeals
Rufus Edmisten
GOP
House of Representatives
Holshegger
Robert Morgan
Morgan
U.S. Senate
Treasure Ship Proof Offered By Discoverer
Wade Quattlebaum says he found two treasure laden ships in Winyah Bay South Carolina and has produced 50 gold and silver coins valued up to 100000 dollars as proof The claim drew cautious interest from archeologists though state law requires permits for salvage The coins and treasure are to stay in South Carolina with Quattlebaum seeking rights to salvage while keeping artifacts in a museum
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John Faust
Orangeburg Times and Democrat
Associated Press
Columbia
Wade Quattlebaum
Winyah Bay
S.C
Barry Williams
Institute of Archeology and Anthropology
University of South
McLeod
Quattlebaum
Kingdom Come
South Carolina
Nine Killed On Highways In North Carolina
Nine people died in North Carolina traffic crashes over the weekend, raising the year’s toll to 872. Victims include pedestrians in Randolph, Wilson, and Chatham counties, a bus strike near Lucama, a motorcycle crash near Greensboro, and other fatal runs off highways.
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Associated Press
North Carolina
State Highway Patrol
Carl Hayworth Cobb
Ramseur
Franklinville
Randolph County
Leslie Canady Jones
Williamston
Willie Franklin Bynum
Rt. 3
Wilson
U.S. 301
Lucama
Wilson County
James Thomas Sizemore
Summerfield
Greensboro
William Penn Glover
Rt. 1
Snow Camp
Silk Hope
Chatham County
Leon Della Tucker
Liquor Raids In Cleveland County Arrest Dozens
ATF special agent Roger Brown said warrants were issued against 82 individuals after undercover work begun in June. Sixty officers with 48 search warrants raided lounges and residences at 7 30 Saturday morning, seizing large quantities of taxpaid and non-taxpaid liquor in teams of 12 along with participation from the sheriff's department state ABC agents and Shelby Police.
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Shelby
Cleveland
Federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms
ATF
Roger Brown
Brown
Cleveland County Sheriff’s ‘Department
State Abc
Shelby Police Department
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Ada Louise Raynor
Clinton
James Walter Brown
Robbins
Moore County
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Pilar
Brittain’s
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