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NASCAR tweaks starting lineups, issues other rule changes

During a competition briefing on Tuesday at its RD Center in Concord, N.C., NASCAR unveiled some tweaks to its qualifying procedures for Cup Series races.

Motorsport

Man wrongfully imprisoned for 44 years wins $25m compensation

Ronnie Wallace Long, now 68, spent more than four decades behind bars for a rape he did not commit

The Independent UK

North Carolina man settles for millions after wrongful conviction, 44 years in prison

The settlement, which will end a wrongful incarceration lawsuit filed by attorneys for Ronnie Wallace Long, also included a public apology from the city of Concord for its role in his imprisonment.

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In $25M settlement, North Carolina city `deeply remorseful' for man's wrongful conviction, prison

Lawyers for a man wrongfully convicted and imprisoned for 44 years say he's reached a $25 million combined settlement with a central North Carolina city and the state of North Carolina

The Independent UK

New Hampshire attorney general files second complaint against white nationalist group

The New Hampshire attorney general is again accusing a white nationalist group of civil rights violations, this time in response to a demonstration outside a Concord café hosting a drag story hour event

The Independent UK

NASCAR unveils its 2024 Drive for Diversity class

The drivers were evaluated and selected after participating in a combine held in Concord, N.C. and Florence, S.C.

Motorsport

Shooter kills 1 before being fatally shot by trooper at N.H. psychiatric hospital

Authorities said all patients at the psychiatric hospital were safe, and the state trooper who killed the shooter was not wounded. No further information was released about the victim or the shooter.

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Multiple victims injured in New Hampshire hospital shooting

The attack occurred at around 9pm GMT on Friday in the city of Concord

Evening Standard

New Hampshire police yet to identify suspect in fatal hospital shooting

Shooter killed security guard, who has been identified, and was shot dead by a state police officer on duty

The Guardian - US

Gun evidence is focus at the trial of a man accused of killing New Hampshire couple on hiking trail

A lawyer representing a man charged with shooting a New Hampshire couple to death on a hiking trail last year says he spent months hiding from police, but over a probation violation from Utah, not the killings

The Independent UK

Marc-André Hamelin review – pianist rises to the extreme challenges of Ives’s Concord Sonata

Hamelin took the extreme technical difficulties of Ives’s sonata entirely in his stride, finding beauty in its most tangled moments

The Guardian - UK

Chilling photo captures drag queen story hour disrupted by neo-Nazis

The event in Concord went forward following the disruption

The Independent UK

Buzzworthy: Honeybee health blooming at federal facilities across the country

While judges, lawyers and support staff at the federal courthouse in Concord, New Hampshire, keep the American justice system buzzing, thousands of humble honeybees on the building’s roof are playing their part in a more important task: feeding the world

The Independent UK

Alex Bowman to return for Charlotte crown jewel NASCAR race after fractured vertebra

CONCORD, N.C. — Charlotte Motor Speedway will be the site of a long-awaited return for one of NASCAR’s top drivers.

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Reason

Brickbat: Look Both Ways

In North Carolina, video showed a Concord police department SUV pass a Cabarrus County school bus that had stopped to let a student off. The bus driver realized the SUV was not going to stop and warned the student just before she was about to step off. The girl's family…

ABC News

Builder of Sydney house that partially collapsed was reported over safety breaches at another site a day before incident

New South Wales building commissioner David Chandler reported a building site over safety concerns only a day before a completed home it had built collapsed on Good Friday.

Tribune News Service

Evictions eclipsed pre-pandemic levels in Bay Area as tenant protections expired

Janae Randolph waited nervously with her boyfriend outside a wood-paneled courtroom at the Contra Costa County courthouse in Martinez, California. She scanned the increasingly crowded hallway for somebody official-looking — maybe a public defender, she hoped — who would explain why they’d been summoned after receiving an eviction notice at…

Reuters

Hundreds of Afghans risk 11-country trek to seek haven in United States

Their journey starts with a humanitarian visa for Brazil: one of the few remaining exit routes for Afghans fleeing Taliban rule.

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Salon

Fact-checking Thoreau’s observations

How do scientists know that historical data is appropriate to use?

Tribune News Service

Q&A: Why one of The Avett Brothers recorded a solo tribute album in a bunch of random hotel rooms

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Unless you have a fairly strong familiarity with contemporary folk artists of the American Midwest, you might look at the title of Concord native Seth Avett’s solo album “Seth Avett Sings Greg Brown,” due to be released on Nov. 4 and wonder, “Uhh, who is Greg Brown?”

Chronicle Live

Fire crews prevent 'disastrous explosion' as they extinguish blaze at petrol station in Washington

Tyne and Wear Fire and Rescue Service prevented a potentially dangerous blaze after a motorcycle caught fire at a petrol station in Concord

The Conversation

By fact-checking Thoreau's observations at Walden Pond, we showed how old diaries and specimens can inform modern research

Henry David Thoreau, the environmental philosopher and author of “Walden”, was a keen observer of seasonal change. In 1862, for example, he wrote in the Atlantic Monthly:

Tribune News Service

Christopher Bell passes Kevin Harvick at Charlotte Roval to advance in NASCAR Cup playoffs

CONCORD, N.C. — Christopher Bell was in a must-win situation entering Sunday. And thanks to some Roval chaos, he did just that.

Chicago Sun-Times

Silent films to live on in movie theater lobby card project, thanks in part to Chicago collector

The cards, scarcely bigger than letter paper, promoted the cinematic romances, comedies and adventures of early Hollywood.

Tribune News Service

Kurt Busch gives updates on health, timetable for return to NASCAR Cup competition

CONCORD, N.C. — Kurt Busch feels “good” as he continues his recovery from a brain injury he sustained more than two months ago, and he remains hopeful that he’ll eventually return to the NASCAR Cup Series.

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