Duke Power outages threaten rotating blackouts in Piedmont
Mechanical failures hit Duke Power Co. a fourth unit at Marshall Station near Hickory and a Belews Creek unit were shut down causing a 5 percent system-wide voltage drop. Utilities urged drastic conservation as demand set daily records and planned 15 minute rotating outages if needed.
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Hickory
Duke Power Co
Duke
Piedmont
North Carolina
South Carolina
Marshall
Belews Creek
Carolina Power & Light Co
Tion
Hasrold Erskine
Here
Erskine
Sailor Walter Hutchins guides Ranger on Oak Hollow Lake
Walter Hutchins, veteran sailor from the East Coast to Alaska, steers a 20 foot Ranger on Oak Hollow Lake. The full spinnaker paints the scene as Hutchins, longtime Oak Hollow Campground manager, smiles for the photo. Start Photo by Sonny Hedgecock.
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Walter Hutchins
Alaska
Oak Hollow Lake
Hutchins
Oak Hollow
Sonny Hedgecock
Hunt Seeks Emergency Drought Designation for NC Counties
Gov. Jim Hunt asked the federal government to declare 54 central North Carolina counties as emergency drought impact areas to unlock federal loan programs for water-short municipalities businesses and farms. He urged conservation measures including higher thermostat settings and off-peak appliance use as crops corn tobacco and livestock suffer across a wide swath of counties.
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Raleigh
Jim Hunt
North Carolina
Hunt
Federal Departments of Agriculture, Interior and Commerce
The
Small Business Administration
Federal Inter-Agency Drought Emergency Coordinating Committee
Surry
Yadkin
Iredell
Catawba
Rutherford
Northampton
Halifax
S . Pitt
Greene
Lenoir
Duplin
Sampson
Bladen
Robeson
June Price Rise Dismays Experts
Washington reports June consumer prices rose six tenths of a percent, matching May as food and services costs climb. Government economists had hoped moderation after May wholesale declines, while a separate Commerce estimate signals a strong economy with roughly 6.9 percent GNP growth in Q2 and real spendable earnings up 3.4 percent in June due to tax changes.
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Washington
Cond
Commerce Dept
Heat Lets Up Friday as North Carolina Sees Relief in Sight
The Associated Press notes that after 18 days of heat 90 degrees or higher a cool front moving from Canada toward the Great Lakes may bring a dip by Friday. forecasters expect scattered thunderstorms rather than widespread rain with seasonal temperatures over the weekend. Local highs Wednesday topped 100 in Fayetteville 103 and Raleigh 100 with Grandfather Mountain at 77 and Boone 84.
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North Carolina
Canada
Great Lakes
Oklahoma
Chatham County
Fayetteville
Rocky Mount
Charlotte
Greensboro
Raleigh
Wilmington
Asheville
Boone
Grandfather Mountain
National Weather Service
Egypt Libya clash on desert border escalates regional tension
Egyptian and Libyan forces clash along the desert border with reports of destroyed Libyan tanks and planes. Cairo radio cited 30 Libyan trucks destroyed and 12 soldiers captured, while Libya gave no immediate comment amid broader Arab world grappling over Lebanon and the Horn of Africa.
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Cairo
Egypt
Cairo Radio
Israel Radio
Libya
Lebanon
Horn of Africa
Anwar Sadat
Geneva
Muammar Khadafy
Israel
Help line answers on workplace safety and handicap groups
The column explains that OSHA does not set fixed cooling standards and uses a heat stress test to judge harm. Ventilation rules vary with exposure to chemicals, and complaints must be in writing to the North Carolina Department of Labor OSHA Division in Raleigh. A note clarifies a prior misidentification of a local firm.
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Occupational Safety and Health Administration
OSHA
N.C. Department of Labor
P.O
Raleigh
N.C
Bart Banner
Bond Hearing Delays for Bank Chairman Extradition Talks
Edwin Duncan Jr., Northwestern Bank board chairman, seeks release while bond remains 800000 in Guilford County jail. A preliminary hearing on embezzlement and eavesdropping charges was postponed as attorneys argue Costa Rica extradition implications. Proceedings shifted from Greensboro to Winston Salem under Magistrate Russell Eliason as diplomatic experts may be needed.
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Winston-Salem
Northwestern Bank Board
Edwin Duncan Jr
Duncan
Sparta
Guilford County
Greensboro
Russell Eliason
Northwestern Financial Corp
Eliason
United States
Costa Rica
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Coffin
Catawba County
Jim Graham
Gov
Associated Press
Anon
Sanford & Son
Association For Handicapped
High Point
W.W. A
North Carolina Paraplegia Association
State Dept
U.S
BANK
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