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The first time I saw Bombadil, they almost blew me away. That is, I nearly needed to leave the room because I disliked the young quartet onstage so very much: Opening for The Avett Brothers in University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill's Great Hall in the winter of 2005, Bombadil seemed to me a catastrophe of enthusiasm, where ambition outstripped ...

Authorities are investigating a fiery head-on collision between two sports utility vehicles that killed two people on a North Carolina highway east of Charlotte.

Police officers direct traffic at Independence Boulevard and Sardis Road North after it was reopened Friday morning.

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Midtown Dickens will release its sophomore album, Lanterns , on Friday, August 28, with a show at Duke Coffeehouse.

The Sandy Springs Fire Department is now better equipped to help its own firefighters with $80,000 in safety equipment like Buddy Breathing devices, which Assistant Fire Chief Mark Duke said will help members of truck and engine companies save each others' lives.

The environmental impact statement for the Monroe Connector/Bypass says the new expressway won't have any effect on the region's poor air quality, and that it won't cause people to drive more miles.

Belmont residents will have a chance to "Eat More Chiken" in October. Chick-fil-A broke ground on N.C. 273 recently, tearing down the vacant Japanese restaurant, Niyoshi.

Craig Meadows, a former city manager in Bedford and in Monroe, N.C., will be named Montgomery County's next county administrator later today, a source on the board of supervisors says.

A truck struck a bridge on Roosevelt Boulevard in Monroe early Tuesday afternoon, and traffic will be congested for the next several hours, authorities say.

Highway 74 westbound in Monroe is closed at Skyway Drive Bridge after a tractor-trailer struck the bridge.

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Cabarrus County commissioners approved a resolution this week opposing a plan to divert funding for the Interstate 85 widening project to the completion of Interstate 485.

Murders, armed robberies, shootings and home invasions-- these are all crimes that have people who live in Monroe on edge.

Christopher J. Priest for PraiseNet.org writes regarding the Gospel Music Workshop of America~ "Local chapters assemble these nice, well-meaning folks together who work very hard all year, running here and there singing their hearts out, looking forward to the big GMWA convention where these folks will finally get the chance to sing before the ...

MONROE A new 43-mile natural gas pipeline, which has caused rancorous land negotiations in northern Union County, consternation in neighboring Cabarrus County and a pending N.C. Utilities Commission complaint, is about one-fifth done and moving forward.

There is a lot more behind this push to nationalize health care then what we are hearing.

I recently received great service from a local Union County merchant after taking a broken lawnmower to Whitley Lawn & Garden on Hwy 601 South.

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As news began to trickle down to us common folks that the stimulus money was doing basically nothing to slow down the decent of the American economy, it was mostly conservatives who began to call President Obama out on it.

MONROE Union County Schools like many other school systems in the south Charlotte suburbs are preparing for budget shortfalls that could mean teacher layoffs, larger classes and postponing maintenance work for older schools.