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Shelter staff discovered the animals packed together inside a single kennel left in the parking lot sometime overnight on Friday. -
The $3 billion, 500-bed hospital would be a joint project of Duke Health and UNC Health. -
The Democratic Senate nominee spoke at a campaign event in Asheville, arguing that the region "desperately needs more federal funding."
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