Ever helpful, North Carolina’s Robert Pittenger has put together a beginner’s handbook to help folks get ready in case a terrorist attacks. The lawmaker attributes his preparedness to the fact that he was a Boy Scout.

While the Department of Veteran Affairs works to get right, the Salisbury division, which includes Charlotte, is still behind the national average of number of veterans getting seen by a doctor. Ninety percent of veterans are seeing a doctor within a month of their application; nationally, the percentage is 94.

When the community grows, the community college will grow with it. Central Piedmont Community College announced it will expand to Ballantyne. For now, they’ll offer corporate and continuing education classes there, and classes are set to begin in July.

A suspect has been arrested in the shootings of two Ferguson police officers. The prosecutor said that 20-year-old Jeffrey Williams โ€œis a demonstratorโ€ and had “attended other protests in Ferguson,” though several protest leaders disagreed.

Kimberly Lawson served as the editor of Creative Loafing from 2013 to 2015.

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  1. I thought we were supposed to wrap the house with plastic wrap and duct tape.

    Does the P in GOP stand for paranoia?

  2. Sorry Garth, I don’t speak whatever street language that is. I don’t even know what you just posted.

  3. “Street language”? Hmmm… always knew DLP was a closet racist. Out of the closet now.

  4. I didn’t know the street had a race. Or is “street” now a racial reference?

    I was referring to the strange way you constructed that sentence, and the words you seem to have made up. It was a comment on your command of the language. No racial reference was made or implied. I still don’t know what you said. Not every criticism of your attitude is a racial slur.

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