19 June 2013
A year after taking office, Charlotte Mecklenburg Schools Superintendent Heath Morrison is reorganizing his top staff and shifting the district from six zones to seven "learning communities." The shakeup announced Wednesday also touches north Mecklenburg in a big way, sending W.A. Hough High School principal Terri Cockerham downtown as the head of human resources.
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19 June 2013
Davidson College political science professor Ken Menkhaus is getting uncomfortably close to the violence in Somalia this summer. When news broke Wednesday of a bombing at a UN compound, he quickly emailed colleagues back home to let them know he was safe.
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19 June 2013
Police say they plan to charge a 19-year-old driver in connection with a two-car wreck on Beatties Ford Road Wednesday morning that claimed the life of a 60-year-old woman and critically injured her husband. Read on for more information on this incident, as well as a summary of this weeks accidents and police statistics.
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19 June 2013
More ways to watch first-run movies or TV series such as "True Blood" or "Game of Thrones": MI-Connection Communication System on Wednesday unveiled a new service that lets HBO and Cinemax subscribers on the town-owned cable network watch programs on any of their devices - from TVs to computers to tablets.
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19 June 2013
Davidson’s Design Review Board will meet Wednesday night at 7pm at Town Hall, 216 S. Main St., with an agenda that includes a review of plans to renovate the Wade Building, at 208 S. Main St., and presentations on the proposed Davidson Retirement Residence at Exit 30 and the Woodie’s Auto Service Center, on Davidson [...]
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18 June 2013
Updated 2:01pm - MOORESVILLE - A Mocksville man drowned while fishing with two others Monday night off the Stumpy Creek Access Area on Lake Norman, north of Mooresville. A preliminary investigation found that the men's boat sank because its drain was not plugged, state wildlife officials said.
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17 June 2013
WDAV-FM has removed the "interim" from Frank Dominguez's title, naming him as its permanent general manager. The longtime host and program director has been interim GM since last November, when previous chief Scott Nolan stepped down.
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17 June 2013
MOORESVILLE - United Way of Central Carolinas’ has announced 2013-14 funding allocations for 16 nonprofit agency partners in the Lake Norman area. The Ada Jenkins Center, a regional community services center in Davidson, got just over $232,000, up slightly from this year. Mooresville Area Christian Mission received nearly $99,000 and other funding went to a wide range of agencies, from the Red Cross to Safe Alliance.
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