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J.B. Mauney, Mooresville native and champion bull rider, almost won it all at the World Finals of professional bull riding in Las Vegas this weekend. Mauney, 22, came in second to Kody Lostroh, who took the World Championship and the $1million prize that comes with a win.
Mauney still won the Professional Bull Riders World Finals Sunday event. He won more than $300,000 over the course of the competition.
He also solidified his place as one of the world's best riders by becoming the first to stay on all eight bulls he rode for the required eight seconds without getting bucked off.-- Ely Portillo
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Concord
Concord police are looking for the men who robbed two workers at a construction site Saturday afternoon.
A witness at the scene says two men came up to the workers, who were at a house on Donelea Drive, shot them and robbed them of $600.
The witness told WCNC NewsChannel 36 that one of the victims was shot in the arm and the other was shot in the leg. -- WCNC
South Carolina is missing out on nearly $100 million in federal stimulus dollars for unemployment benefits, and it will be months before jobless residents see the money, if at all.
The Post and Courier of Charleston reported Sunday that the money is intended to cover more women and part-time and low-wage workers who don't qualify for unemployment checks.
In South Carolina, the changes could provide benefits to an additional nearly 17,000 jobless residents.
House Majority Leader Kenny Bingham, a Republican, said it hardly makes sense to add people to the dole that already is running a projected $1 billion deficit, money that state businesses will have to pay back at some point.
Democratic Rep. Joe Neal argued that employers make contributions for every worker on the payroll to the fund that pays out unemployment benefits.
"This is not a giveaway," Neal said. "These people have earned this protection. Hundreds of thousands of folks have lost their job through no fault of their own." -- Associated Press
