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News for January 5

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Rainy week, varying temperatures; Wake schools reassignment plan up for more hearings this week; NAACP chapter fighting growing crime in South Raleigh

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News for January 2

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Raleigh crime rate up for 2008; Raleigh police chief hopes to fill 70 vacant positions by this summer; Police charge woman for shooting her boyfriend on new year’s eve

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News for December 31

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High winds and lots of people downtown for new year’s eve; Alternative First Night parties; High speed chase ends in wreck, two arrested; Kroger clerk helped plan robbery; City settles recycling truck crash lawsuit for $1.1 million; Small fire at Alibi Bar last night

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News for December 30

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Raleigh police car crash still being investigated; New recycling trucks hitting the streets for the new year; Restored wetland opens at Fred Fletcher Park

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News from around Raleigh for Dec. 29

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Downtown hotel bookings slow for First Night celebration; Oberlin Court in the final stages, last apartments being leased; Raleigh police car involved in accident on Wade Ave.; Sunday night shooting wounded 2

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For the Record: Comp plan edition

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Special Comp Plan edition:

The City of Raleigh hasn’t updated it’s comprehensive plan since 1989. But over the past couple years it’s been forming tasks forces, committees and taking public comment, and now they have a draft ready. The city will present the draft tonight at the new convention center. Registration is at 6:30 and the program starts at seven. Check out the plan for yourself at the city’s website.

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For the Record: News from around Raleigh

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New Wake commissioners to be sworn in, weigh school budget cuts
The county manager will ask the school system to cut it’s budget, reports NBC 17. And the board will also elect a new chair, from the N&O. Robber gets less than $200 from Raleigh hotel holdup
The N&O reports on a man with a gun holding up the Comfort Suites in East Raleigh early Sunday morning. Raleigh Comprehensive plan draft release today
From the city, a public workshop will be held on Wednesday. Stay tuned to the Raleigh Public Record for more coverage.

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For the Record: News from around Raleigh

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Expanded PROP going into effect Jan. 1
A press release from the city lays out the new Probationary Rental Occupancy Permit rules. Gas prices drop, but so do the number of Thanksgiving travelers
WRAL reports gas is a dollar less on average compared to last Thanksgiving. Wake Co. sends 12 employees to Hollywood, spends nearly $30,000
The N&O’s Michael Biesecker reports the group was staying in a luxury hotel when the county manager told commissioners he decided to institute a hiring freeze.