November 19, 2009
RALEIGH (AP) — The U.S. Army plans to prevent media from covering Sarah Palin's appearance at Fort Bragg, fearing the event will turn into political grandstanding against President Barack Obama, officials said Thursday.
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RALEIGH (AP) — North Carolina officials said Thursday that a group of violent inmates who were nearly set free because of a quirky 1970s law that limited a life sentence to 80 years are not eligible to receive good behavior credits that would shorte...
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October 30, 2009
RALEIGH (AP) — North Carolina Sen. Richard Burr has a 37 percent approval rating among adults in the state as he prepares his campaign for re-election, according to a poll released Friday.
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October 19, 2009
RALEIGH (AP) — Only one of the violent North Carolina criminals set for release next week will have official supervision outside prison, and the state is rushing to establish community connections to transition them back to society.
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October 16, 2009
RALEIGH (AP) — The violent North Carolina criminals set to be freed later this month because of a court ruling and good conduct credits have racked up more than 250 infractions in prison for offenses such as fighting, weapon possession and theft.
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October 15, 2009
RALEIGH (AP) — A cadre of murderers and rapists, several of whom victimized young girls, will be set free from North Carolina prisons this month after state courts agreed that a decades-old law defined life sentences as only 80 years long.
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October 14, 2009
GREENSBORO (AP) — Attorneys laid out competing accounts Wednesday of a 2002 shooting in which a North Carolina deputy fatally shot one soldier and injured another during a traffic stop.
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October 12, 2009
RALEIGH (AP) — In its search for fugitives, the FBI has begun using facial-recognition technology on millions of motorists, comparing driver's license photos with pictures of convicts in a high-tech analysis of chin widths and nose sizes.
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October 2, 2009
RALEIGH (AP) — Federal safety officials warned workers around the country today not to clear natural gas lines indoors after an explosion at a Slim Jim snack factory that killed three people.The U.S. Chemical Safety Board said in a new safety bullet...
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September 25, 2009
RALEIGH (AP) — Federal prosecutors say two North Carolina terrorism suspects plotted to attack government and military installations in Virginia and elsewhere.An updated federal indictment released Friday says Daniel Patrick Boyd and Hysen Sherifi b...
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September 24, 2009
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Federal prosecutors say two North Carolina terrorism suspects plotted to kill U.S. military personnel and obtained maps of a Marine base in Virginia to plan an attack. A superseding indictment returned Thursday against Daniel...
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September 16, 2009
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina Sen. Kay Hagan says she supports a new health care plan proposed by her Democratic colleagues, praising the bill for not increasing the nation's deficit. The Democratic lawmaker endorsed the measure despite its c...
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September 15, 2009
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — A North Carolina safety panel adopted emergency changes to its gas guidelines on Tuesday, three months after an explosion at a Slim Jim factory killed three people. The N.C. Building Code Council to require that workers who are...
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September 14, 2009
RALEIGH (AP) — Federal safety officials have rejected a series of urgent recommendations that investigators offered after an explosion at a Slim Jim factory in North Carolina killed three people.Documents obtained by The Associated Press show that s...
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September 9, 2009
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Billy Graham's ministry denies that it discriminated against a black employee and argues for her lawsuit to be dismissed. Former employee Kimberly McCallum claims she was abruptly fired by the Billy Graham Evangelistic Associat...
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RALEIGH (AP) — Secretary of State Elaine Marshall, the first woman elected to a statewide office in North Carolina, is entering the race for U.S. Senate with the hopes of unseating Republican Richard Burr. Marshall filed paperwork this week to creat...
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September 4, 2009
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — A unique commission designed to assess claims of innocence voted unanimously Friday to ask a panel of judges to reconsider the case of a man who has spent 16 years in prison for murder. After two days of emotional hearings, the...
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August 27, 2009
RALEIGH (AP) — Sen. Sen. Kay Hagan said today she is willing to consider health care co-ops as an alternative to a government-backed public option, signaling that she's receptive to some of the same compromises as her GOP counterpart.Hagan said in a...
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August 25, 2009
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — A North Carolina man named as the ringleader of an aspiring terrorism group sold most of the weapons he purchased and wanted to make sure his children were familiar with guns, one of the sons told federal agents in a repor...
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August 21, 2009
RALEIGH (AP) — North Carolina's state auditor and her former chief investigator offered scathingly different accounts Friday of why the agency decided to shelve a probe into ex-first lady Mary Easley's lucrative university job.State Auditor Beth Woo...
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August 20, 2009
RALEIGH (AP) — State Auditor Beth Wood said today she spent the morning defending before a grand jury why she didn't publicly release an audit into former first lady Mary Easley's job at a state university.Wood told reporters outside the federal cou...
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August 12, 2009
RALEIGH (AP) — A rural North Carolina school district with a proud military tradition is allowing a Quaker peace activist a chance to coax high school students away from careers in the armed forces, attorneys said Wednesday. For years, Sally Ferrell...
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August 10, 2009
RALEIGH (AP) — The Carolina Hurricanes have sued a Raleigh hip-hop artist who produced a song promoting the franchise, saying the man has violated team trademarks.The federal lawsuit accuses Tyrone Banks of misusing trademarks by referring to the tu...
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August 5, 2009
RALEIGH (AP) — Seven terrorist suspects smiled and waved to supporters who packed a North Carolina courtroom, greeting them with a simple and significant phrase: "May peace be upon you," said in Arabic."May peace be upon you, also,&qu...
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July 29, 2009
RALEIGH (AP) — Israel denied entry two years ago to members of a North Carolina family that includes three men accused of plotting to execute terror attacks in foreign countries, an official said today.Daniel Boyd, 39, was arrested Monday with six...
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