RALEIGH - Over 100,000 people are expected to attend the Raleigh Wide Open celebration on Friday and Saturday with music from Chuck Berry and Foreigner's lead singer, events, the Raleigh Convention Center opening, fireworks, and more. [read more + map + schedule]
Chuck Berry playing in Sweden. Photo By Håkan Henriksson.
By Ted Abernathy, Entertainment Editor 05.SEP.08 RALEIGH - In a free concert that will probably attract 50,000 to 80,000 people, the legendary rock and roller Chuck Berry will be the headline act for the free Raleigh Wide Open celebration today, Friday September 5th. The City of Raleigh says his performance has been moved up to 7:30pm to avoid possible rain from Tropical Storm Hannah as it makes landfall tonight. [read more]
By Elliott West, Raleigh Telegram 05.SEP.08 RALEIGH - Coastal areas of North Carolina are getting ready for Tropical Storm Hanna as convoys of National Guard vehicles and electrical repair crews are heading towards the expected affected areas. Also, some Amtrak trains have been suspended in anticipation of the storm. [read more]
NC Aircraft Firm Builds 100 Blimps For Army
Seeing a blimp in the air is not an usual site above the skies of Elizabeth City, North Carolina. Photo: Telegram.
External Link 04.SEP.08
ELIZABETH CITY, NC - TCom, a firm that makes blimps and other lighter-than-air aircraft, announced that it recerntly built its 100th "aerostat" for the US Army to be used in Iraq. External link to Daily Advance of Elizabeth City. [read more]
Dell May Sell NC Computer Factory
Photo: Telegram
External Link 04.SEP.08
WINSTON-SALEM, NC - Dell Computers is looking to sell its computer factories, including one in Winston Salem, North Carolina that received hundreds of millions in incentives, says an AP report reporting on a Wall Street Journal article. [read more]
From RTPTV 04.SEP.08 ST. PAUL, MINNESOTA - View speeches from the Republican National Convention including those from Senator John McCain, Governor Sarah Palin of Alaska, Rudy Giuliani, Senator Joe Liebermann, and others. [watch videos]
Photo: Suspect "Ray" Zamora-Marcial (left two pictures) and his associates Raul Zamora-Marcial and Alejandro Noyola-Marcial.
By Elliott West, Raleigh Telegram 02.SEP.08 RALEIGH - Raleigh Police investigators are looking for three men, one of whom has been charged in the shooting murder of a man over the weekend in Raleigh. [read more]
The Art Of Letterpress Comes To Raleigh
Photo: Wikipedia.
External Link 02.SEP.08
RALEIGH - Officina Briani — Latin for "Workshop of Brian" — occupies an unprepossessing space in a small one-story office park off Millbrook Road in north Raleigh. Inside, Allen’s workshop is a world of its own...and everywhere paeans to the beauty of the printed word, and the printed word itself. External link to Metro. [read more]
By Ted Jurnigan, Raleigh Telegram 02.SEP.08 RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK - The Research Triangle Institute announced today that a $7.5 million grant from the federal government will create the Institute for Homeland Security Solutions in Research Triangle Park. [read more]
