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While I changed her tires, Danica changed my mind

Like a lot of people, ThatsRacin.com blogger Dennis Terry wasn't sure about Danica Patrick. Her run on Saturday might've made him a believer.

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Jim Utter handicaps the Nationwide drivers
ImaginOn’s energy use grows with popularity
By Bruce Henderson | E-mail | 6:28PM
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Charlotte’s first energy-efficient “green” public building, the children’s theater and library ImaginOn, turns out to use twice as much energy as its designers had estimated.
United Way halts Strategic Initiative Grants
By Mark Price | E-mail | 2:44PM

In the latest move to distance itself from past policies, United Way’s new board decided this morning to eliminate a program that allowed some non-United Way programs to get hundreds of thousands of dollars in agency grants.

CMS teacher found dead at home
By Cleve R. Wootson Jr. | E-mail | 7:08PM
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A 38-year-old middle school teacher was found shot to death in bed in his southwest Charlotte home Tuesday morning.

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