By The Raleigh Telegram RALEIGH – A local restaurant has experimented with burgers made from a different kind of meat — buffalo or bison meat. They say the response has been so positive that they may offer it as a regular item on the menu. The TirNaNog Irish Pub and…
By The Raleigh Telegram RALEIGH – The North Carolina Museum of Art has received a $2 million donation to help with educational efforts throughout North Carolina. The money is being donated by the NC GlaxoSmithKline Foundation and the museum says it is one of the largest single donations in the…
By The Raleigh Telegram RALEIGH – A Raleigh startup is launching a new website to help combat dropout rates and help to pay for students’ educational efforts. The new website is called StockofU.com and is being launched by local entrepreneurs Ty McDuffie and Ken McGuire in Raleigh. The website’s concept…
By Lois Alley, The Raleigh Telegram DURHAM – Lieutenant Governor Walter Dalton has announced that he will officially run for governor in the Democratic primaries later this year. Dalton has served as lieutenant governor for the last three years. In a rally yesterday in Durham with Durham Mayor Bill Bell,…
By The Raleigh Telegram ELON COLLEGE, NC – According to Cornelius Muller Productions, producers of a movie are asking for those who want to be extras in the feature film “Find A Way” to show up on Friday, February 24th. The movie is currently being shot in Alamance County…
By The Raleigh Telegram According to the North Carolina Division of Motor Vehicles, a Raleigh man has been charged with selling vehicles with altered odometers out of his home. The NC DMV License and Theft Bureau said that a search warrant was served today at the home of Francis Marimo, who had been…
By The Raleigh Telegram WASHINGTON DC – According to U.S. Representative Howard Coble’s office, Captain Rudy Stevens, a Fort Bragg chaplain, led the U.S. House of Representatives in prayer last Wednesday, February 15th. “Congressman Coble welcomed an Army chaplain from Moore County to Capitol Hill last week as the guest…
By Voice of America, Reprinted By The Raleigh Telegram THE MOON – A U.S. lunar probe has sent back its first images of the far side of the moon, showing a massive crater that is billions of years old. Scientists say the pictures from the Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory,…
By The Raleigh Telegram RALEIGH – Scientists at NASA and NOAA say that this year, activity on the surface of the sun is the strongest in six years, with more radiation reaching the earth than usual. The sun’s activity fluctuates in cycles and 2012 will see more than an average…
By The Raleigh Telegram CHARLOTTE – An international motorcycle show will be held in downtown Charlotte at the end of February that will feature new motorcycles, stunt performances, merchandise, and more. The International Motorcycle Show will be held at the Charlotte Convention Center the last weekend of the month on…
By The Raleigh Telegram RALEIGH – The Federal Bureau of Investigation in North Carolina arrested a Greensboro man and charged him with the robbery of two Triangle SunTrust banks that are located in Kroger stores. The FBI identified the man as John Larry Morrison, age 36, who the FBI says also…
By Kathy Newbern and J.S. Fletcher, Special To The Raleigh Telegram LAKE TOXAWAY, NC — Pulling up alongside The Greystone Inn’s long red awning that leads to reception, we’re eager to explore all this property has to offer. It’s been on our wish list several years. Greystone Inn, a AAA…
By The Raleigh Telegram RALEIGH – In this week’s political notebook, we look at criticism of Richard Burr, Erskine Bowles’ big payoff, Bob Etheridge’s strange start, McCrory’s run for governor, Jesse Helms endorses a candidate, sort of, and Clinton and Kennedy had more in common than most people suspected. RICHARD…
By The Raleigh Telegram RALEIGH – The Feberal Bureau of Investigation is looking for a local bank robber who they think is responsible for at least two local robberies in the Triangle area. According to the FBI, the man has “protruding teeth”, a gray beard, and stands between 6’3″ and…
By Ted Jurnigan, The Raleigh Telegram CHAPEL HILL – Carolina fans were heartbroken on Wednesday night as the Duke Blue Devils somehow clawed their way back from a deficit in the second half of their game against the UNC Tarheels at the Dean Dome. Despite trailing throughout the entire second…
By Lois Alley, The Raleigh Telegram RALEIGH – Notorious political figure and convicted Washington DC lobbyist Jack Abramoff will be speaking in Raleigh this week as part of a national book tour. A powerful lobbyist who had access to President George W. Bush and the most prestigious circles in the…
By The Raleigh Telegram RALEIGH – According to the Raleigh Police Department, a Raleigh police officer who serves with the Special Operations Division was shot at several times yesterday and is currently in the hospital. Police say that the suspect who shot at him is dead, apparently from self-inflicted gunshot wounds.…
By Voice of America, Reprinted By The Raleigh Telegram WASHINGTON DC – U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder has faced a new round of Republican criticism over a controversial tactic in which U.S. authorities allowed gun buyers to move arms into Mexico, destined for drug cartels. In testimony to Congress last…
By Dan Robinson, Voice of America, Reprinted By The Raleigh Telegram WASHINGTON DC – The White House faced additional questions last Thursday on U.S. and NATO discussions about potentially ending combat operations in Afghanistan by the middle of 2013 as foreign forces transition to an Afghan security lead. Several times…
By Tom Murro, The Raleigh Telegram NEW YORK - JayZ recently opened up his new 4040 Club on 25th and Broadway in New York City and reportedly spent $10 million in renovations to the joint and decided to show it off. C.C. Sabathia, Ashanti, Questlove, Boxer Eric Kelly, Chef Nirschel, Russell Simmons,…
By Voice of America, Reprinted By The Raleigh Telegram WASHINGTON DC – The U.S. Supreme Court ruled on January 23rd that American police must secure a search warrant before they track criminal suspects with the use of global positioning system technology. The nation’s nine-member highest court unanimously decided that law enforcement…
By The Raleigh Telegram RALEIGH – According to the Carolina Hurricanes, the National Hockey League team recently signed defenseman Tim Gleason to a four-year contract extension that will provide the player with a cool $16 million over the life of the contract.. The team says they will pay Gleason $3.5…
By The Raleigh Telegram WASHINGTON DC – After being mentioned in newspaper articles and a biography on President John F. Kennedy, a former White House intern who was 19 years old at the time has admitted in her own new book and on national television that she had an affair with…
By Parke Brewer, Voice of America, Reprinted By The Raleigh Telegram INDIANAPOLIS – The New York Giants are this season’s champions of American football, beating the New England Patriots in the NFL’s Super Bowl XLVI by a score of 21-17, played at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis. These same two…
By Brent Lancaster, The Raleigh Telegram RALEIGH – On Christmas Day in 1944, North Carolina native George Preddy was in the skies over Belgium, chasing German planes in his P-51 Mustang, when his luck ran out. He lost his life when an American anti-aircraft team on the ground missed the…
By The Raleigh Telegram RALEIGH – After The Raleigh Telegram launched its new and improved website on January 1st of this year, the locally owned newspaper’s stories have proved to be popular with national media. In the last 30 days alone, The Telegram has been linked to by The New…
By D.G. Martin, The Raleigh Telegram RALEIGH – It’s too bad that sports reporters and historians at Atlantic Coast Conference headquarters are not reading the book “ACC Basketball.” This UNC Press book by Sam Walker was published last year and chronicles the game during the conference’s first 20 years. On…
By WikiNews, Reprinted By The Raleigh Telegram NEVADA – Former Massachusetts Governor and Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney won the 2012 Nevada caucuses on Saturday. This win follows his victory in Florida’s primary earlier last week. Former U.S. Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich came in second and Ron Paul…
By The Raleigh Telegram WASHINGTON DC – U.S. Senator Kay Hagan, who is a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee conducted the promotion ceremony last week for Congressional Military Fellow Kristin McCann. Kristin, who works in Hagan’s DC office, was recently promoted to the rank of Lieutenant Colonel in the United States Marine…
By Jordan Green, For The Raleigh Telegram JAMESTOWN, NC – Former Charlotte Mayor Pat McCrory is expected to make his run as a Republican candidate for North Carolina Governor official later today. McCrory has served as mayor of Charlotte for 14 years, the longest serving mayor in the city. Many…
By Tom Jensen, Public Policy Polling, Special To The Raleigh Telegram RALEIGH – Pat McCrory launches his campaign for Governor today with a lead in the polls against all of his potential Democratic opponents. But he also has a major liability- his close ties to the unpopular Republican legislature…
By Elliott West, The Raleigh Telegram CEDAR GROVE, NC – The Orange County Sheriff’s Department announced late last week that detectives have made two arrests in a murder and robbery case that left a former sheriff’s deputy and a store owner dead at a rural Orange County store earlier this…
By The Raleigh Telegram RALEIGH – A new stamp by the United States Postal Service was unveiled in Raleigh this past weekend, marking the beginning of the Chinese New Year. The Triangle Area Chinese American Society and the U.S. Postal Service celebrated the Chinese New Year in style this weekend…
By The Raleigh Telegram CHAPEL HILL – The Chapel Hill Town Council recently voted to apologize to the News & Observer newspaper in Raleigh and one of its reporters who was arrested and detained by Chapel Hill police while covering a story in November. In a resolution introduced by town…
By Doug Bernard, Voice Of America, Reprinted By The Raleigh Telegram WASHINGTON DC – Perhaps they should have expected this. Years ago, the founders of Google adopted as their semi-official motto the phrase “Don’t Be Evil.” And that, for Google’s critics, has been the gift that keeps on giving. Every…
By D.G. Martin, The Raleigh Telegram RALEIGH – It is the kind of surprise for which every ambitious politician must be prepared: the unexpected decision by an incumbent elected official to retire. It is, my friend Jay Rivers told me, the kind of window of opportunity that opens ever so…
By The Raleigh Telegram MARYLAND – NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center has released a new image of Earth that shows planet earth in a whole new view. According to NASA, ‘Blue Marble’ image of the Earth seen above was taken from an instrument aboard NASA’s most recently launched Earth-observing satellite called…
By The Raleigh Telegram DURHAM – To quote a phrase from one of the characters in the show, the touring version of the hit Broadway series “Memphis” is simply “fantastical.” The popular show is being hosted in the Triangle by the Durham Performing Arts Center, located in downtown Durham and…
By Lois Alley, The Raleigh Telegram RALEIGH – Several news outlets including The Washington Post and the Associated Press are now reporting that North Carolina Governor Beverly Perdue will not seek the Democratic nomination for governor later this year. The news was first reported in a Washington Post politics blog…
By Lois Alley, The Raleigh Telegram RALEIGH – In a press conference last week, North Carolina Governor Beverly Perdue pushed for a state-wide sales tax increase that would help to fund public education in North Carolina. Perdue’s plan would “temporarily” re-instate a 3/4ths of a cent sales tax that would potentially raise…
