Browns Summit Area News

Carolina Farm Credit Employees donate to local food banks
Jefferson Post
The association's territory covers the western half of North Carolina, with service centers located in Albemarle, Asheboro, Asheville, Boone, Browns Summit, Burnsville, Carthage, Concord, Ellerbe, Graham, Hendersonville, Hillsborough, Jefferson, Lenoir ...

USA National Masters Track Championships July 11-14 At Olathe KS District ...
The Herald | HeraldOnline.com
Lee's Summit, Missouri. Menka, an explosive long jumper and a fine 80-meter hurdler, won both events last year at outdoor nationals and figures to do well in Olathe. As a collegian, Menka competed for the University of Tennessee, traditionally one of ...

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alBalooshi, Gray, Edwards, Smith collect Norwalk wins
NHRA.com
In a thrilling side-by-side final round duel, NHRA Funny Car driver Johnny Gray picked up his fourth win of 2013 on Sunday with a victory against Ron Capps at the Summit Racing Equipment NHRA Nationals at Summit Racing Equipment Motorsports Park ...

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How Arizona fire quickly turned tragic for 19 members of Hotshot crew
Santa Fe New Mexican.com
Off in the distance, from behind a ridge line, billowed a sickly, blackish-brown plume — spreading like a bruise across the graying sky. 'Be safe'. The blaze ... At 43, the North Carolina native was the oldest member of the Hotshot team and its ...

A brewing storm: How fire turned tragic for 19 men
Knoxville News Sentinel
In this Thursday, July 4, 2013, photo, engine man Nik Christian of the Summit Fire Department hangs one of his crew's T-shirts on a makeshift memorial to fallen members of the Granite Mountain Hotshots in Prescott, Ariz. The Flagstaff firefighter ...

From lunch on a ridge to disaster: How just another day on the line turned ...
Newser
In this Thursday, July 4, 2013, photo, engine man Nik Christian of the Summit Fire Department hangs one of his crew's T-shirts on a makeshift memorial to fallen members of the Granite Mountain Hotshots... (Associated Press) ... Off in the distance ...

Artesia Daily Press
A brewing storm: How fire turned tragic for 19 men
Artesia Daily Press
Off in the distance, from behind a ridge line, billowed a sickly, blackish-brown plume — spreading like a bruise across the graying sky. ___. The blaze had ... At 43, the North Carolina native was the oldest member of the Hotshot team and its founder ...

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Summit NHRA Nationals continue today
Norwalk Reflector
NATIONAL RECORDS: Top Fuel - 3.701 sec. by Antron Brown, Oct. '12, Reading, Pa.; 332.18 mph by Spencer Massey, April '12, Charlotte, N.C.. Funny Car - 3.986 sec. by Jack Beckman, Oct. '12, Reading, Pa.; 320.58 mph by Beckman, Oct. '12, Reading, Pa.

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Update on the latest news, sports, business and entertainment
NECN
Federal Aviation Administration spokeswoman Laura Brown said the Boeing 777 was supposed to land on runway 28 left at the airport. She said the sequence of events ... He said Saturday he is making the offer as a protest against the U.S. and European ...

Lawsuit: Police seize homes, arrest owners to investigate neighbor
Daily Caller
A family is suing the city of Henderson, Nevada for violating their Third Amendment rights — the constitutional prohibition against quartering soldiers in a private home during peacetime without the owner's consent. The Mitchell family says that's ...

State Dept. admits Kerry was lounging on private yacht during Egypt crisis
Daily Caller
The State Department admitted Friday that Secretary of State John Kerry was lounging on his private yacht off Cape Cod during the military coup in Egypt. The admission reverses earlier claims by a State representative that Kerry was hard at work on the ...

Daily Caller
Report: Government is responsible for housing bubble, not banks
Daily Caller
Banks' unfair treatment of African-Americans and Hispanics did not cause the housing bubble that crashed the economy in 2007, a new economic study found. Claims of racism are undercut because “black and Hispanic homeowners had much higher rates of ...

A glimpse at college football's future from The Opening
USA TODAY
Wide receivers – Braxton Berrios (Raleigh, N.C./Leesville Road), Erik Brown (Fontana, Calif./Summit) , Malachi Dupre (River Ridge, La./John Curtis), Thaddeus Snodgrass (Springfield, Ohio/Springfield). Tight end – Chase Blakley (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho ...

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Middle East experts find Kerry focus on Israeli-Palestinian peace 'baffling'
Daily Caller
Nathan Brown, a nonresident senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment for National Peace, told TheDC he finds Kerry's decision to focus on the Israeli-Palestinian peace “baffling.” “He may get formal negotiations started if he's lucky. I can't see him ...

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Coughlins give $10 million toward OSU cancer research project
Marion Star
Brutus Buckeye sits in one of the cars the Coughlin family's JEGS team will be racing at this weekend's Summit Racing Equipment Nationals in Norwalk. ... Top Fuel — 3.701 sec. by Antron Brown, Oct. '12, Reading, Pa.; 332.18 mph by Spencer Massey ...

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Family steps up
Mansfield News Journal
Brutus Buckeye sits in one of the cars the Coughlin family's JEGS team will be racing at this weekend's Summit Racing Equipment Nationals in Norwalk. ... Top Fuel — 3.701 sec. by Antron Brown, Oct. '12, Reading, Pa.; 332.18 mph by Spencer Massey ...

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Rain ends first day of racing
Norwalk Reflector
WHERE: Summit Racing Equipment Motorsports Park, Norwalk, Ohio. The track is located at 1300 State Route 18, half way between Cleveland and Toledo; just an hour and a half north of Columbus. The Ohio Turnpike is less than 10 minutes away.

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High school teacher has teen student's baby, gets arrested
Daily Caller
Here at The Daily Caller, there was a belief that the national epidemic of teacher-student sex romps would slow down and perhaps even stop as the dog days of summer vacation set in. That view turned out to be hopelessly naïve, however. To see why, look ...

Arctic expedition to highlight global warming brings guns to fight off polar bears
Daily Caller
In an effort to highlight the effects of global warming, an Irish-Canadian team plans to cross the arctic's Northwest Passage in a rowboat while armed with rubber bullets to ward off polar bears. The team will also carry shotguns to kill the animals if ...

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Texans favor Cruz over Perry for 2016 presidential race
Daily Caller
The Canada-born Cruz leads all potential contenders in the 2016 race, with 27 percent of Texas Republicans naming him as their top choice for the GOP presidential nomination. The junior senator also enjoys a 42 percent approval rating overall, with 71 ...