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By MICHAEL BIESECKER, Staff Writer DURHAM -- Durham mayoral candidate Jackie Wagstaff donned bright orange Chuck Taylor shoes and large gold earrings Thursday to announce her Hip-Hop Agenda for City Hall. Wagstaff said she would use "gangsta" culture and rap music to appeal to disaffected youth, luring them away from crime with the offer of free studio time to record songs. T-shirt giveaways would serve as another enticement. If elected, she would hold monthly meetings with her Hip-Hop Cabinet, streetwise teens with insights on how to improve the Bull City. "You can always take something bad and find something positive,"...

ERAU continues celebration of 100 years of flight Staff report Last update: 09 November 2003 DAYTONA BEACH -- "Wings & Waves: Embry-Riddle Celebrates the Centennial of Flight," a free air and sea show, will be repeated today along the shoreline, with a worship service and a Veterans Day ceremony tacked on to the beginning for good measure. The show, presented by Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, commemorates the 100th anniversary of flight. Orville Wright made the world's first successful powered flight in a heavier-than-air machine on the beach at Kitty Hawk, N.C., on Dec. 17, 1903. The 120-foot flight lasted 12...