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The Lightning
- Sheriff provides more detail on murder of diner waitress May 23, 2022
- Pardee reopens Justice Street entrance May 22, 2022Pardee UNC Health Care has reopened its Justice Street entrance after the completion of a new parking lot and other changes to improve traffic flow with dedicated ingress and egress points.
- Free Clinics has supply of psychotropic drugs May 22, 2022Thanks to a generous grant from VayaHealth in summer 2021, The Free Clinics added six psychotropic medications to its Community Pharmacy formulary that have historically been out of reach for its patients due to pricing constraints.
- STUCK MIDDLE: What’ll Wordle do for you? May 22, 2022Around these parts, I have become known as a word wonk. So yes, of course I play Wordle.
- Funeral is set for Dixie Diner owner May 21, 2022A funeral service has been announced for Paulette Gibbs “Paula” Clark, the longtime Dixie Diner waitress who died May 13 as the result of a brutal beating.
- Lady Falcons win state track championship May 21, 2022West Henderson High School's Lady Falcons captured three first place finishes — two by hurdler Emma Hall — on their way to claiming the North Carolina Women's 3A Track and Field Championship at N.C. A&T University in Greensboro.
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Today in History
- "Shuffle Along," the first major African American hit musical, premieres on Broadway March 28, 2022Deeply in debt and relegated to a shabby theater, the musical Shuffle Along debuts at the Sixty-Third Street Music Hall on May 23, 1921. The odds are stacked against the revue-style show, written and performed by African Americans, but it will run for over a year, making it the first major Black ...
- Ireland legalizes same-sex marriage May 21, 2018On May 23, 2015 thousands of LGBTQ activists celebrated as Ireland became the first country to legalize same-sex marriage through referendum. The referendum passed with 62% of voters (1.2 million people) voting yes. The vote attracted a large turnout, with 60.5% of eligible voters—and an ...