Health advisory eyed for Lumber River Basin toxins
State health officials planned to issue a health advisory for the Lumber River Basin due to mer potish levels. The alert would cover streams and lakes across Scotland Robeson Bladen Columbus and Brunswick counties and portions of Moore Richmond and Hoke counties. Lakes Ledbetter and Baytree in Richmond and Bladen counties would be included as well. Meanwhile Governor Hunt wrapped up a South Africa trade mission with Mandela urging North Carolina firms to invest and noting strong interest in NC products.
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Lumber River
Ronald H. Levine
Scotland
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Bladen
Columbus
Brunswick
Moore
Richmond
Hoke
Ledbetter Lake
Richmond County
Baytree Lake
Bladen County
Nelson Mandela
White House
North Carolina
Jim Hunt
South Falling
Johannesburg
Hunt
South Africa
Zimbabwe
Oak Ridge welcomes two Russian teen scholars in historic first
Oak Ridge Military Academy hosts Georgy Alexeyev and Maria Polyakova as the first Russian students in nearly a century. The teens navigate calls home money concerns and cultural adjustment while studying, aided by scholarships from a school contest. Republican lawmakers promise reforms next year, while Democrats argue the plan is election-year politics. House Speaker Dan Blue and GOP leaders clash over a proposed eight-point contract covering tax cuts, welfare reform, education changes, term limits, veto power, and legislative rule tweaks.
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Oak Ridge
Georgy Alexeyev
Maria Polyakova
United States
Oak Ridge Military Academy
Georgy
Maria
St. Petersn
Ool
Soviet Union
House
Dan Blue
Legislative Democrats
Washington
Senate
North Carolina
Raleigh
Bob Shaw
Capitol
Appeals court sends juvenile case back for reconsideration
The North Carolina Court of Appeals orders a closer look at community alternatives for a 14-year-old who broke a boy’s jaw and threatened a coach. The ruling emphasizes least restrictive disposition and notes a counselor had urged probation. A second issue reverses part of a product liability suit against a trampoline maker and retailer, granting an age-based extension on the statute of limitations for Rex Bryant.
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Raleigh
State Court of Appeals
Wilson County
Clifton Johnson
Rex Bryant
House bill would ban smoking on most U S flights
The House approved legislation to ban smoking on nearly all domestic flights and on international flights to and from the United States. The measure ends the six hour Alaska Hawaii exemption currently in force from a 1989 act, expanding the non smoking rule to longer domestic and all international flights.
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Washington
United States
House
America
Alaska
Hawaii
Two Die in Nursing Home Fire Blamed on Suspected Arson
In Franklin investigators, aided by a trained search dog, probed a Grand View Manor blaze that killed Adelaide Finch 90 and Dagman Cochran 87 and injured 34. Arson probes labeled the fire suspicious while smoke inhalation caused the fatalities and furnace room origin was considered. One resident 70 remained in stable condition and others were released or moved to nearby facilities.
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Franklin
Bill Matthews
State Bureau of Investigation
Grand View Manor Rest Home
Asheville
Angel Hospital
Bruce Wooten
Macon County Emergency Medical Service
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