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County slashes budget by $300,000 - taxes will go up, rollback possible
by Kenda Nelson
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Officials trimmed the county budget by $300,000 Thursday morning, reaching their goal to lower the tax rate by 3 cents per $100 valuation. Last week, Judge Rene Mascorro was optimistic that the co...
‘Boro’s own super-dome
by Kenda Nelson
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Youngsters line the chain-link fence at Woodsboro Elementary chanting, “Blow it up, blow it up.” Their excitement is contagious. The community and board members, teachers and school administrator...

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This satellite image provided by NOAA shows Hurricane Earl taken Friday Sept. 3, 2010 at 12:01 a.m. EDT. Hurricane Earl was downgraded to a Category 2 storm with maximum sustained winds near 105 mph. National Weather Service meteorologist Hal Austin said the eye of the hurricane was expected to get as close as 55 miles east of the Outer Banks about 2 a.m. Friday. (AP Photo/NOAAAP - The last ferry left for the mainland and coastal residents hunkered down at home as Hurricane Earl closed in with 105 mph winds Friday on North Carolina's dangerously exposed Outer Banks, the first and perhaps most destructive stop on the storm's projected journey up the Eastern Seaboard.


Fri Sep 03 00:28:24 -0500 2010
AP - A spokesman for Miami International Airport says four of its six concourses have been evacuated as a police bomb squad investigates a report of a suspicious item.
Fri Sep 03 01:01:05 -0500 2010

Boats are seen spraying water on an oil and gas platform that exploded in the Gulf of Mexico, off the coast of Louisiana., Thursday, Sept. 2, 2010. All 13 crew members were rescued.  (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)AP - An oil platform that burned off the Louisiana coast Thursday was the second such disaster in the Gulf of Mexico in less than five months. This time, the Coast Guard said there was no leak, and no one was killed.


Thu Sep 02 23:03:41 -0500 2010

Lee Taylor, of Harlow, N.C., buys ice for his family to ride out the storm as Hurricane Earl heads toward the eastern coast in Atlantic Beach, N.C., Thursday, Sept. 2, 2010. (AP Photo/Chuck Burton)AP - A two-story Comfort Inn has become a makeshift hurricane hostel on North Carolina's Outer Banks for those who want to stay close to their homes but know they need better shelter from the onslaught of Earl.


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