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Cabarrus corporations
Salisbury Post
Charlotte Sewing Co., Coleen Matte, 6324 Performance Dr., Concord. Complete Claim Builders, LLC, Dale Stuart Radcliffe, 8611 Concord Mills Blvd., Suite 427, Concord. Country Acres Rescue, Lynn Woodard, 6875 Plyer Rd., Kannapolis.

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Caring for almost carefree products
Minneapolis Star Tribune
It's the siding of choice on many new homes. Often called HardiePlank, it's almost trouble-free. Still, inspect it annually. If caulking fails, water can penetrate the joint and damage the wood and framing behind the siding. Charlotte home inspector ...

Gamble at the birth of a nation
Melbounre Times Weekly
The home secretary, Lord Sydney, therefore considered alternatives including Lemane [in the Gambia], other African destinations and Botany Bay. A parliamentary committee chaired by Lord Beauchamp did likewise. Beauchamp delivered his report to the ...

For Your Home: Natural wall coverings, 'Practical Guide to Home Inspection' book
Long Beach Press-Telegram
In "Practical Guide to Home Inspection," celebrity home inspector Jeffrey I. Charloff gives you useful information to help determine the condition of your existing home or the home you're looking to buy. His illustrated and easy-to-understand book ...

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Ask an expert
TheChronicleHerald.ca
A home inspector will not pass or fail your house, but rather describe its physical condition and indicate what components and systems may need repair or replacement. To that end, it is extremely important to have everything ready on the day of ...

Angie's Home Guide: An inspection can prevent problems
Winston-Salem Journal
"Often, people are faced with a whole bunch of possibilities for fixing their house and wonder what they ought to be doing first, second, etc.," said Woodmansee, of The Home Inspector in Winston-Salem. "It's like getting your annual physical exam.

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SOTU 2012: Just the policy
Washington Post (blog)
What speech does tend to offer are some broader principles that will likely guide the White House's 2012 agenda. Tonight, we did get a few details: President Obama focused on inequality, calling for a new minimum, 30 percent tax rate for millionaires ...
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What Michelle Obama's guests tell us about the State of the Union
Washington Post (blog)
The White House is sending around the list of guests who will sit with Michelle Obama at tonight's State of the Union address. It's a useful preview of some of the policy themes Obama's likely to touch on. There's Warren Buffett's secretary, ...

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Local CEO and single mom joining First Lady for State of the Union Address
WBTV
By Nick Needham - email CHARLOTTE, NC (WBTV) - A single mom and a small business owner are on their way to Washington, DC to join the First Lady Tuesday night. Jackie Bray, of Kings Mountain, and Bruce Cochrane, of Lincolnton, have been invited to sit ...

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Collinsville home inspector covers all the bases
STLtoday.com
RAMONA C. SANDERS / JOURNAL Donnie Shevlin, owner of Sure Home Appraisal and Inspection in Collinsville, inspects the furnace of a home in Smithton for a potential buyer. Let us spend an hour with you! Can you think of interesting places where we ...

ALE agent under investigation after wreck
News & Observer
14 fender bender in Charlotte. Records show Gilliard's driver's license was revoked at the time, following his failure to appear in court in Durham County for two traffic citations. Ernie Seneca, spokesman for the NC Department of Public Safety, ...

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Michael Waltrip Racing Looking To Make Next Step
RacingNation.com
Trying to refrain from using the most popular word during the NASCAR Sprint Media Tour hosted by Charlotte Motor Speedway, "excited", Michael Waltrip says that he is optimistic for the 2012 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Season. With two new drivers joining ...

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An Illinois man is recovering after having a nail removed from his brain, and he didn't even know it was there.

Ask the Inspector: Recurring problems
Leader-Telegram
Call your home inspector and get your home tested today. Duerkop is a licensed home inspector and serves as president and education director of the Wisconsin Association of Home Inspectors for the central and northern Wisconsin chapters.

Perhaps instead of an election we should just have a sing-off. ...   

A Thai man may be taking the promise "till death do us part" too far when he marries his dead girlfriend -- at her funeral.

We all know that mail can arrive late from time to time, but a man in Florida says the Ms. magazine delivered to his mailbox this week was 36 years late.

A very short time ago, in Boston, Massachusetts, hungry Arisia Sci-Fi Convention attendees chowed down on what its creators described as "the world's most epic cake."

A 36-year-old California man claims he's a virgin despite fathering 14 kids.

Medical bills have been known to produce a shock-and-awe response in the hands of former patients. But a man in New York says the hospital tab he received for $44.8 million was a little more than he expected.