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On this day in 2015, The News & Observer published the story of how Raleigh police officer Dan Hicks talked a distraught man out of jumping from a bridge on Interstate 440 & the Beltline into traffic on Wade Avenue.
The incident was recorded by the state’s Department of Transportation traffic camera and placed online. Video of Hicks and the unnamed man embracing and walking off the bridge together went viral on social media.
Hicks said he thinks Triangle residents and “any number of people across the country” would have stopped and done the same thing.
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In 1926, Governor Angus McLean made a speech at a cattle and poultry show in Burlington at Friendship Academy and High School. Farmers local to the area had pooled their cattle resources and established a co-operative creamery.
An audience of a thousand farmers and their families listened to the governor’s speech on “diversifying their interests” for economic growth. In addition to harvesting crops, farmers were encouraged to expand into raising cattle and poultry. The gathering was the one-year anniversary of the creamery, an example of a whole community growing economically.
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This story was originally published September 11, 2026 at 5:30 AM.