North Carolina Senate OKs dual math track plan
RALEIGH AP The Senate approved a measure directing districts to offer traditional algebra and geometry alongside integrated Math 1 2 and 3 under Common Core. The plan starts in 2018 19 with critics warning smaller schools lack resources to run both paths while supporters call it a remedy for complaints about the new courses. The bill goes back to the House.
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Raleigh
North Carolina
Senate
Bill
House
Lawmakers delay tax cap debate in NC Senate
RALEIGH AP The North Carolina Senate pushes back debate on a Republican plan to put tax reforms to voters in November. The measure aims to lower income taxes and shift more burden to sales taxes. Democrats warn it hurts low income residents who gain less and face higher goods taxes. Republican Sen Tom Apodaca of Henderson County says the plan will be reviewed again later this month.
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Raleigh
North Carolina
Senate
Tom Apodaca
Henderson County
Obituaries and Notices From Local Area
A list of names and ages appears for the remembrance section in the Gastonia area. The list includes Freddie Smith 75 Stanley Vernon Stocks 77 Shelby Joseph Hathcock Willie Kendrick 58 Martha Hayes 87 Janet Walker 67 Rolla 70 Sandra Forrester 67 Allen Boyter 70 Donna Dellinger 75 Jewel Haney 91 Marian Barkley 90 Gasia Faye Costner 78 William Holland 86 Charles Scotland 79 Dale McEntyre 59 Louis Floyd 85 Claudis Lindsey 72 Nelson Moore 39 Margaret Baker 73 Marilyn Lindsay 40. A quarterly remembrance section is forthcoming along with classifieds lottery and sports notes in the newspaper.
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Freddie Smith
Stanley
Vernon Stocks
Shelby
Joseph Hathcock
Willie Kendrick
Gastonia
Martha Hayes
Janet Walker
Kings Mountain
Herald Rolla
Sandra Forrester
Allen Boyter
Charlotte
Donna Dellinger
Jewel Haney
Marian Barkley
Gastia
Faye Costner
Bessemer City
William Holland
Louis Floyd
Bessemer
Claudis Lindsey
Nelson Moore
Dallas
Margaret Baker
Marilyn Lindsay
Stove fire in Dallas apartment. resident saved by neighbor
A stove-top kitchen blaze at Oak Forest complex 117 Oak Forest Lane Dallas destroyed a unit in apartment 1020. Neighbor Chavia McDowell helped pull Arnold Edison from the smoke before firefighters arrived. Edison was hospitalized in good condition. Four residents refused treatment. causal factors are under investigation.
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Oak Forest
Dallas
CaroMont Regional Medical Center
Gastonia
Steve Lambert
Lambert
Chavia McDowell
Arnold Edison
McDowell
Banlo
Spencer Mountain
Agriculture Center
YMCA Robinwood Lake plan reshapes after-school care
Gaston Family YMCA will relocate operations to a new Robinwood Lake facility next year. Central Branch after-school care for about 150 students will move to Pleasant Ridge Elementary, which will become a licensed childcare site. Pleasant Ridge will also host summer camps replacing the Central Branch. Students will enjoy field trips to the new YMCA and local attractions while remaining closer to their schools, reducing daily bus time.
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YMCA
Central Branch Ymca
West Franklin Boulevard
Pleasant Ridge Elementary
Mike Hensdill
the Gazette
Robinwood Lake
Gaston Family Ymca
Tony Sigman
Pleasant Ridge
Forest Heights
Central Branch
Sigman
Kate
Gastonia
Sigmon
the Y
Tree Fall Kills Psychologist Outside Gastonia Home
A 66-year-old psychologist, Dr. Brian Alexander Simpson, was killed when a tree fell on him while he was cutting trees at his Lawndale residence. Simpson, licensed since 1983, owned Piedmont Psychological Resources on Union Road in Gastonia. EMS, fallston rescue, and life squads responded, transferring him to Carolinas Healthcare System Cleveland in Shelby.
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Gastonia
Lawndale
Brian Alexander Simpson
North Carolina
Piedmont Psychological Resources
Union Road
Simpson
Cleveland County
Stom McIntyre
Fallston
Orlando Shooting Motive Links Postings to Mateen's Rage
A Senate committee letter cites Omar Mateen’s Facebook posts and searches during the Pulse nightclub attack in Orlando. He railed against the “filthy ways of the west” and blamed the U S for deaths of civilians, citing “America and Russia the Islamic state” amid online queries for Pulse Orlando.
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Orlando
Fla
Omar Mateen
U.S
Senate Committee
Facebook
America
Russia
Senate Homeland Security Committee
Mark Zuckerberg
Mateen
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