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In a list that weighs the amount of money a star is paid for a film against the film’s profits, Forbes found that Murphy is the most overpaid actor, and Barrymore the most overpaid actress (and overpaid star overall) in the business. Barrymore saw her 2010 romantic comedy “Going the Distance” earn just $17.8 million […]

Via: News14.Com Public transportation in Durham set a new record last month. The Durham Area Transit Authority recorded more than 550,000 riders, a 9.6 percent increase from the same time last year. Officials say it’s the fourth monthly increase since July.

How the mighty are fallen. Thirty-five years ago the average German was roughly 15 times richer than the average Chinese. Today the ratio is less than 3-to-1. Back in 1980 the Chinese economy accounted for just 2.2% of global economic output, one third the size of Germany’s share. By 2016, according to the International Monetary […]

One woman, a 35-year-old mother of two little girls, agreed to tell her story to WRAL Investigates, as long as she was not identified. She says she was flown to the U.S. from Mexico after answering an ad online that promised a work VISA and an education scholarship, but that’s not what happened when she […]

“They have not caught no one yet,” said Shakanah’s mother Demetriss China “I feel like it’s not right for a 13 year old to get killed at her home, in her yard, for no apparent reason, and nobody’s out here doing their job like their supposed to.” This sounds all to familiar. http://abclocal.go.com/wtvd/story?section=news/local&id=8417914

This occurred at a restaurant in Crystal City (Virginia) and everybody was aware of it,” said Wilson, who was a consultant for the organization at the time, in the KTOK interview. “It was only a matter of time because so many people were aware of what took place, so many people were aware of her […]

Verity Records recording artist Deitrick Haddon will be in Raleigh North Carolina on Sunday November 6, 2011 for the play “Dream With Your Eyes Open.”

You might typically expect that the father-daughter dance at a wedding is the stuffy, ceremonious kind of stuff that usually leaves you bored to tears….well, this father and daughter had something different in mind.

Via: News14.com A young Moore County boy is in the hospital after he was hit by a pickup truck while trying to cross the street to his school bus The boy’s mother, Karen Maness, said her son, 8-year-old Slayton Maness, suffered a set back with a stroke on top of his injuries, but she’s holding […]

Local Goldsboro couple reunited with six children.For four years, civil unrest in the West African country of Togo separated a Goldsboro couple from their children. Victor and Louis Messan were reunited with their six children at Raleigh Durham International Airport on Wednesday. Upon their arrival, the Messans could not stop hugging the children. “I’ve very […]