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Crews have been trying to repair the break since around 2:30 am Friday.

HighPoint Unveils SATA 6 Gb/s Expander Module
Tom's Hardware Guide
HighPoint Technologies has launched the Rocket EJ340, the industry's first SATA 6 Gb/s Expander Module with a built-in enclosure management. The EJ340 utilizes industry standard mini-SAS connectors, a Centronics compliant form factor and allows the ...

High Point man acted on original 'Lone Ranger' radio program
High Point Enterprise
Les Flippo 008.jpg. SONNY HEDGECOCK | HPE. Les Flippo, 83, of High Point, performed on about 30 episodes of the original "Lone Ranger" radio program in the late 1940s. 4_Bruce_Beemer.jpg. SPECIAL | HPE. Brace Beemer played the Lone Ranger for ...

News & Observer
Dome: Next week's Moral Mondays protest to focus on the numbers
News & Observer
Others appointed are Leonor Clavijo, of Durham, executive director of the N.C. Hispanic Chamber of Commerce and a news reporter at Univision; Dr. Rosemary Stein, owner of International Family Clinic in Burlington; Julie Garza of Wake County, program ...

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NC pre-teens earn certification as scuba divers
BlueRidgeNow.com
It wasn't just another day at the IMR Quarry in Yanceyville. On this particular Saturday, some young scuba divers were working to become certified. And for the students, it was an amazing experience. "The best part was getting to hold a cheese stick ...

Pelicans beat Dash in 11 innings
Winston-Salem Journal
Unfortunately for the home crowd, the Myrtle Beach Pelicans spoiled the festivities, beating the Winston-Salem Dash 8-5 in 11 innings. The Pelicans blew it open in the 11 th after Luis Sardinas doubled to start the inning, and moved over on a sacrifice ...

NC pre - teens earn certification as scuba divers
WRAL.com
BURLINGTON, N.C. — Kids played tic-tac-toe, only in this game they used algae growing on the cockpit of an airplane. Exotic fish swam close by as they did so. It wasn't just another day at the IMR Quarry in Yanceyville. On this particular Saturday ...

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NC pre - teens earn certification as scuba divers
WRAL.com
By KATE MURPHY, The Times-News of Burlington. BURLINGTON, N.C. — Kids played tic-tac-toe, only in this game they used algae growing on the cockpit of an airplane. Exotic fish swam close by as they did so. It wasn't just another day at the IMR Quarry ...

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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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Teens flock to downtown Greensboro ahead of looming curfew
Winston-Salem Journal
GREENSBORO — A looming 11 p.m. curfew combined with on-and-off rain didn't stop hundreds of teenagers from flocking downtown for July Fourth. The Greensboro City Council passed a 60-day downtown curfew Wednesday in response to 11 arrests for ...

Bunch cards ace on Flag Day at Willow Creek
High Point Enterprise
GRAHAM — High Point American Legion Post 87 fell 7-6 to Burlington-Graham Post 63 in 11 innings in Game 1 of their best-of-five first-round playoff series at Graham Middle School on Thursday night. Game 2 is today at 6 p.m. at Finch Field in ...

At least 14 people have been injured due to malfunctioning fireworks at an annual 4th of July show northwest of Los Angeles.

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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Restore the Fourth rally in Raleigh decries government surveillance
News & Observer
More than 50 people gathered on Thursday, July 4, at the N.C. State Capitol as part of the "Restore the Fourth" (Amendment) movement. PAULA SELIGSON ... Sarah Goushaw, 14, traveled to the protest from Burlington with her brother, Patrick. She gave up a ...

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30 car donations in 30 days is Salvation Army goal
Winston-Salem Journal
“We can't support the community, whether that be feeding a hungry family or bringing someone off the street, without the support of community,” said Ellen Bliven, the director of marketing at the Salvation Army of Winston-Salem and Greensboro. Bliven ...

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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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Bike program may roll into Greensboro
Greensboro News & Record
GREENSBORO — A downtown advocacy group is studying who should bring a bike share program to Greensboro. Action Greensboro's task force is looking at bike share programs across the country and hopes to have a recommendation by fall. “We've been ...

Mike Mabe, a Purple Heart Veteran, reflects on the Fourth of July.

Some 4th of July fun on the Dan River in Madison turned into a rescue mission.

Check out the top and bottom restaurant scores this week from across the Triad.