Mark Darrough

Photographer, @reduxpictures. Reporter, @CPublicPress

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@JohnStatonSN @Ben_Schachtman @StarNewsOnline @michael_praats These hurricanes are getting violent

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@StarNewsOnline Remember, spell check isn't the only tool. It's a headline for Pete's sake! @michael_praats @Ben_Schachtman

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@DemDieHard @NBCSGiants Bet on NFL, come on man pay attention

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"The war has broken me." -Stepan, who lives less than a kilometer from Kharkiv's front line, said his wife is currently in the besieged village of Rubizhne. (Watch: https://t.co/g3Sf2lS1a5) #UkraineRussiaWar

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Met an architect hired by #ukraine on Thurs., Slava Balbek in #borodyanka, surveying two residential buildings cut in half by the Russians before retreating. Flying drones over scenes of destruction in towns around the #Kyiv region to begin planning the rebuild.

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Meet Petro. He cuts steel plates in an enormous Soviet-era warehouse in #Ukraine. Then a little testing with an AK-47 to be sure they can handle some Russian bullshit. 10,000 #bulletproof vests distributed to the military in over a month.

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@michael_praats Go fuck yourself heroin - you be da man. What a feat, congrats my brotha.

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NC asks for the ability to seize Russian assets from its public pension fund. But not a lot of dough, relatively speaking: Russian-tied investments make up a whopping .06% of a total $133 billion. Good ol fashion politics or valid economics? https://t.co/6kWNmTX8TO

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@michael_praats This city needs more face time with you.

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Following passage of the #AmericanRescuePlan,
@CityofWilm now likely to receive around $24m in Covid relief funds, while $200m expected to go to transit for cities across #NorthCarolina. https://t.co/O0rEoSUi9U
@NCdotGov

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@michael_praats Good Lawwwd

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@PPDCRO founder suing “election integrity” group to retrieve $2.5m donation. Emails b/t players show his political consultant helped shape the group’s action plan the day Eshelman made the initial wire, including litigation to keep Trump in office, contradicting claim in lawsuit.

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Former DII All-American @CatawbaFootball QB Brad Roach (and former NFL training camp roommate of @JoeFlacco) starts 7-on-7 football league in @CityofWilm. Check out the league @filmtofield.

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Wilmington's 2 largest homeless shelters sent an open letter to city/county leaders to "sound the alarm that we are on the precipice of a potentially even more significant community health crisis: and that is: when Covid hits our more vulnerable population, what happens?" #pcd

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"[N]obody wants to leave, and nobody’s worried about the virus, obviously,” one beachgoer said. “We’re all just here to have a good f—ing time.” #portcitydaily #coronavirus #carolinabeach

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Today’s court appearance of 3 family members accused of starving 8 horses at their farm in Wilmington was truly a damn circus. Judge Ray delayed the case again one month after promising, "It won't be continued next time."@portcitydaily
#pcd #portcitydaily #wilmington

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DA's office said there was insufficient evidence against a Pender Sheriff's deputy to prosecute after reviewing an investigation by Bladen Sheriff's Office. A woman had come forward, alleging the deputy sexually assaulted her last summer. @PortCityDaily #PortCityDaily #PCD

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A solar farm and its landowners are suing the town of Burgaw over a rezoning dispute, pitting the rights of property owners against the jurisdictional authority of local government. @PortCityDaily #PortCityDaily #reportingPenderCounty

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Pender EMS & Fire loses $26,000 drone as it runs out of battery fighting high winds over the Atlantic (https://t.co/Jbz7gkZjbV) #PortCityDaily
@PortCityDaily #reportingPenderCounty

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Two months after Florence @PenderCounty_NC agrees to $600,000 for debris removal on private dirt roads. “You county commissioners have two choices: either you can get the trash removed or you can resign for not doing your job,” one man said ... https://t.co/TcTyrWOo54.