Cleveland News

A drive to raise North Carolina's top speed limit to 75 mph moved ahead Tuesday after a House committee recommended a Senate bill despite warnings by legislators that higher speeds will mean more casualties.

Production for Iron Man 3 has set up in Oak Island for a 10-day stretch that began Thursday the 19th, and will be using locations on the beach strand between Barbee Blvd. and Crowell St as well as Skydive Coastal Carolina at the Cape Fear Regional Jetway on Long Beach Rd. for stunt work.

A bill that would force the city to extend water and sewer to the controversial 751 South project is on the move in the N.C. House.

Christie Turner has been named new principal at Glendale-Kenly Elementary School and will be officially assuming her duties on Monday, July 1. Turner previously served as assistant principal at Cleveland Elementary School since 2007 and prior to that was a third grade teacher, also at Cleveland, for 15 years.

SPARTANBURG HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WATCH FOR PORTIONS OF NORTHEAST GEORGIA...NORTH CAROLINA AND UPSTATE SOUTH CAROLINA...INCLUDING THE FOLLOWING AREAS...IN NORTHEAST GEORGIA...ELBERT...FRANKLIN... HABERSHAM...HART...RABUN AND STEPHENS.

When he first came to Durham in 1960 to work for N.C. Mutual Life Insurance Co., Howard Clement III told his boss he planned to stay in the city about 10 years, then go back to Charleston, S.C, to practice law.

Some drive school buses in the morning. Others work one on one with children on reading and other subjects.