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Health: Those vitamin supplements you take may be useless. (The New York Times)

Death: Eastern N.C. firefighter responds to call and finds wife dead. (Wilmington Star-News)

Credit: Here’s (some) hope that store clerks will quit asking you if you want to save 10 percent. (The New York Times)

Law: Demand for Legal Aid goes up as funding goes down. (The News & Observer)

Military: Salon looks into suicides in the Armed Forces. (Salon)

Crime: Weirdo poses as cop in Rockingham County (The News & Record)

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Health: Reports of stomach flu are up. (Wilmington Star-News)

Airlines: US Airways improves rate of on-time arrivals; now it’s second only to Southwest. (The Charlotte Observer)

Environment: Vast ocean vortexes are filling up with garbage. (Wilmington Star-News)

Law: Myrtle Beach is considering a tougher “thong ordinance” against indecent exposure. (WBTV)

Religion: Holocaust-denying bishop loses his seminary post. Pope XVI had recently rescinded this bishop’s excommunication from the church. (The New York Times)

Economy: High Point University has been approached to buy a struggling nearby mall. The college says it isn’t buying. (The News & Record)

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Animals: Investigators have recovered animals from a Wayne County puppy mill. (WBTV)

Relationships: The Obama’s seemingly perfect marriage has made some yuppies reflect unhappily on their own marriages. (Jezebel)

Economy: In a rough economy, who should you turn to for financial wisdom? A former member of Guns N’ Roses, of course. (The Economist)

Crime: More charges against the insurance man accused of killing the state worker who was investigating his business. (NewsChannel36)

Animals: Some legislators are trying again to ban the use of gas chambers at animal shelters. (Wilmington Star-News)

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Crime: The ATF will help police combat drug activity in Villa Heights and Belmont. (WBTV)

College: Gossip didn’t pay (enough) for Juicy Campus. (News & Observer)

Crime: Western N.C. couple arrested in child porn case. (The Asheville Citizen-Times)

Fast food: Cleaning fluid isn’t on the dollar menu. (Consumerist)

Environment: Activists arrested while protesting at W.Va. mountaintop removal site. (Institute for Southern Studies)

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Freebies: You have to feel sorry for Denny’s employees today. (Consumerist)

Animals: NIMBYism comes to the dog park. (The News & Observer)

Economy: CEOs who take bailout money may be limited to $500K in salary. (CNN)

Drugs: Even conservative columnist Kathleen Parker says it’s time to rethink our marijuana policies. (The Washington Post)

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Fashion: Toby Keith is launching a fashion line. Hide the children. (People)

Crime: Authorities identify the 73 proud citizens involved in the Randolph County cockfighting bust. (News & Record)

Philanthropy: The co-founder of Habitat for Humanity died early this morning. (AP via WBTV)

Culture: Drinking doesn’t make a woman look like a 10 at 2; it makes you look like a man, or so these prohibitionists say. (Jezebel)

Politics: Forty-three percent of Republicans say their party has become too moderate in the past eight years — a mindset that’s surely going to help them in 2012, right? (Rasmussen Reports)

Sports: Michael Phelps tried to squash the pot photo that apparently is such a big deal. (MSNBC)

Film: These Afghan filmmakers have guts. (The Christian Science Monitor)

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Economy: A government job may be your best chance at keeping a roof over your head. (AP via WBTV)

Terrorism: Anti-torture activists want Johnston County’s airport to adopt no-rendition policy. (News & Observer)

Banking: Does BoA owe N.C. residents an apology? (BlueNC)

Policy: The Chatham County jail’s too small to participate in the 287(g) program, but illegal immigration foes want it anyway. (News & Observer)

Commercialism: The Super Bowl ads didn’t disappoint — if you were looking for sexism and other hackneyed portrayals. (The New York Times)

Fear: Yes, a person can be scared to death. (Scientific American)

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E-mails have gone out today urging people to vote in a Fox Charlotte online poll that poses question. You can find it here.(It’s on the right side of the page, about halfway down.)

At 4:31 p.m., Fox Charlotte’s poll found a majority favor the idea: about 61 percent of the 246 people who clicked on the online box said yes.

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College: Did members of a Fayetteville State University fraternity beat pledges? (The Fayetteville Observer)

Conflict: Iraq to Blackwater: Get out. (The News & Observer)

Fear of flying: U.S. Airways Flight 1549 get a year’s worth of upgrades. (The New York Post)

Nonprofits: The United Way of Forsyth County raised 95 percent of its goal, despite the economy. (The Winston-Salem Journal)

Bizarre: N.C. man faked his own death 20 years ago to evade drug ring. (WBTV)

More bizarre: Wait. He says he didn’t. (The Asheville Citizen-Times)

Homelessness: A Census count is expected to show that, unsurprisingly, more people lack permanent shelter. (The News & Observer)

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Military: The Army’s suicide rate is the highest it’s been in nearly three decades. (AP via Yahoo)

Politics: Arkansas legislative committee says no to resolution congratulating Obama. Why? Slavery, of course. (Arkansas Business via Wonkette)

Skullduggery: Peanut Corp. of America knew products contained salmonella and shipped ‘em anyway. (Consumerist)

Medicine: Which antidepressants work best? (Scientific American)

Economy: Shades of 1933, anyone? (Alternet)

Transportation: CATS wants $300 million of stimulus-package money for its north line. (NewsChannel 36)

Relics: Phyllis Schlafly is still around. (The Sun Journal)

Politics: Atlantic Beach, S.C., mayor arrested. Again. (Myrtle Beach Sun-News)

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