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TD Bank’s Hoak named NC regional president
GREENVILLE, S.C. — Rob Hoak, regional president of TD Bank, has been promoted and now oversees all of North Carolina. Previously, Hoak served as the Regional President for South Carolina and coast...
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Senate passes override; fails in House
RALEIGH — The North Carolina Senate voted to override Gov. Bev Perdue’s veto to provisions of the Racial Justice Act (RJA).
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A banner is seen on the exterior of the Sears department store in downtown Chicago. Sears Holdings Corp. said Tuesday, Dec. 27, 2011, it plans to close 100 to 120 of its Sears and Kmart stores as its holiday sales disappointed and it looks to reduce costs.
Florida hit hardest by Sears store closings
HOFFMAN ESTATES, Ill. (AP) — Florida will be hit the hardest by the closing of Sears and Kmart stores, losing 11, according to a preliminary list of 79 planned closures released Thursday.
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Oprah inspires designer
RALEIGH — This is a story about a woman and a coveted handbag, but unlike most other stories about women and coveted handbags, Gigi Karmous-Edwards designed hers.
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State to get housing help
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration is providing $3 billion to unemployed homeowners facing foreclosure in the nation’s toughest job markets.
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Textile company makes comeback
YADKINVILLE — Unifi Inc. is back in the black, a survivor of 10 years in textile-manufacturing limbo.
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Outer Banks sees tourists returning
CURRITUCK — Cars jamming coastal highways and lodgings booked almost to capacity signal that tourists have returned to the Outer Banks this summer.
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Growers cultivating businesses
CHARLOTTE — In shallow trays of organic soil at her greenhouse in Harrisburg, onetime real estate agent Kate Brun is cultivating a business: growing and selling microgreens, tiny herbs and vegetabl...
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City hopes TV series boosts tourism dollars
WILMINGTON — When number-crunchers try to calculate how much money a television or film production brings to Wilmington, most things are easy to count.
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Trucking companies see growth
CHARLOTTE — The phone rings at Atlantic Trucking Co. a couple hundred times a day lately, and terminal manager Lee Montgomery occasionally logs 12-hour shifts, taking orders and scanning rate quote...
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N.C. county OKs bid for 400-job Caterpillar plant
WINSTON-SALEM (AP) — North Carolina officials are assembling a package of tax breaks and other incentives worth up to $75 million to lure a new Caterpillar Inc. factory that would employ nearly 400...
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Universities explore nanoscience
GREENSBORO — As an undergrad at the University of Massachusetts, physics major Demitri Balabanov did research in condensed matter, an area he said has significant overlap with nanoscience.
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Much-anticipated bakery opens
DURHAM — Soon after Scratch, a new counter-service bakery in downtown Durham, opened to the public for the first time on a Friday morning in early June, Matt Lardie strode in: Customer No. 1.
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Popular golf attire comes from N.C.
CARY — They remember the mints. When boxes of golf shirts and shorts and other high-end menswear are shipped from the Peter Millar office and warehouse, the packing list includes mints.
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N.C. rate down, but signs weak
RALEIGH (AP) — North Carolina’s unemployment rate improved in May for the third straight month, this time to 10.3 percent, but the boost came mostly from a gain in government hiring, the state Empl...
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