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A White House-sponsored social change project is currently accepting applications from college students.
Someone sped at about 3:04 p.m. Friday at Clayton Road, Chapel Hill police reports state.
WASHINGTON, D.C. (MCT) — Buried in a thick spending bill before Congress that must be approved to prevent a government shutdown is one line dealing with tomato paste.
WASHINGTON, D.C. (MCT) — An Idaho man has been charged with attempting to assassinate President Obama in connection with a shooting incident at the White House on Friday night.
NEW YORK (MCT) — Occupy Wall Street vowed to mark the two-month anniversary of its protests with a “day of action” Thursday, beginning with a march to the heart of the financial district — the New York Stock Exchange — that drew hundreds of chanting, sign-waving supporters to lower Manhattan.
Someone sprayed graffiti on a recycling dumpster between midnight and 4:27 p.m. Tuesday at 201 S. Estes Drive, according to Chapel Hill police reports. The dumpster was valued at $50, reports state.
The Orange County Board of Commissioners approved funding Tuesday for an elementary school that will help alleviate overcrowding within the district.
ATHENS (MCT) — Greece’s new coalition government, headed by former European Central Bank member Lucas Papademos, won a confidence vote in parliament with a comfortable majority on Wednesday.
ROME (MCT) — Italy’s new government led by Prime Minister Mario Monti was sworn in on Wednesday — in a move welcomed by the country’s main European Union partners.
LONDON (MCT) — Officials on Wednesday pinned eviction notices to tents of the Occupy London protesters camped outside London’s landmark St. Paul’s Cathedral.
Kidzu Children’s Museum will celebrate the grand opening of its new location at 123 W. Franklin St. in University Square this weekend.
Rep. David Price will speak at the Chapel Hill-Carrboro Chamber of Commerce’s annual Federal Issues Briefing Nov. 21.
UNC and N.C. Central University will host a summit to discuss closing the literacy achievement gap between young black males and other students.
UNC professor Victoria Soltis-Jarrett has been selected to join the Board of Directors of the North Carolina Nurses Association.
LOS ANGELES (MCT) — Children with high IQs are more likely to use marijuana, cocaine, amphetamines and other illicit drugs as teenagers and adults, according to new data on nearly 8,000 British men and women who were tracked for more than three decades.
CAIRO (MCT) — Deputy Prime Minister Ali Selmi held talks with representatives of Egypt’s Democratic Coalition on Tuesday in an attempt to contain anger over proposals that would give the military increased power over the country’s soon-to-be elected Parliament. The proposals on the drafting of a new constitution have caused a nationwide uproar.
MADISON, Wis. (MCT) — The bitter partisan trench war that has transformed Wisconsin into a proxy for polarization nationwide opened a new front Tuesday with the formal launch of a petition drive to force a recall vote on freshman Republican Gov. Scott Walker.
NEW YORK (MCT) — New York’s mayor Tuesday defended the pre-dawn clearing of the Occupy Wall Street encampment, saying “inaction was not an option” as the nearly 2-month-old set-up became packed with tents and concerns grew that fires and other hazards could erupt.
BEIRUT (MCT) — Pressure was mounting Monday on the embattled regime of President Bashar Assad as European foreign ministers agreed to extend sanctions against Syria and King Abdullah of Jordan called on Assad to step down.
WASHINGTON, D.C. (MCT) — In the scramble to come up with a deficit-reduction deal by Thanksgiving, members of Capitol Hill’s supercommittee appear to have one group squarely in their crosshairs: high-income Medicare beneficiaries.