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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July 28, 2009
RALEIGH (AP) — Federal authorities searched overseas Tuesday for a U.S. citizen charged with plotting "violent jihad" as part of a North Carolina-based group of aspiring international terrorists.Authorities think the eighth suspect is in P...
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RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Daniel Boyd may have spent the past three years traveling to the Middle East, secretly buying guns and training for jihad with a group of aspiring terrorists as federal authorities claim, but people on his cul-de-sac said Tuesda...
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RALEIGH (AP) — A father, his two sons and four other North Carolina men are accused of military-style training at home and plotting "violent jihad" through a series of terror attacks abroad, federal authorities said Monday.Officials said t...
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July 27, 2009
RALEIGH (AP) — A father, his two sons and four other North Carolina men are accused of military-style training at home and plotting "violent jihad" through a series of terror attacks abroad, federal authorities said Monday.
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July 1, 2009
RALEIGH (AP) — A longtime loyalist and aide to two-time Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards spent the day inside a federal courthouse amid an investigation into how his former boss spent campaign funds. The Associated Press on Wednesday...
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June 24, 2009
RALEIGH (AP) — E-mails that were sent or received during the months leading up to former first lady Mary Easley's hiring were deleted from the account of former Chancellor James Oblinger, attorneys for N.C. State said Wednesday. The university's law...
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June 17, 2009
RALEIGH (AP) — The former chancellor of N.C. State testified today to a federal grand jury that is seeking details about a job given to former first lady Mary Easley.James Oblinger and his lawyer declined to discuss his testimony when he left the bu...
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RALEIGH (AP) — The former chancellor of N.C. State testified today to a federal grand jury that is seeking details about a job given to former first lady Mary Easley.James Oblinger and his lawyer declined to discuss his testimony when he left the bu...
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June 16, 2009
RALEIGH (AP) — The interim chancellor of N.C. State has eliminated the lucrative resignation package given to the former campus provost, saying in a letter released Tuesday that the deal was "invalid." Interim chancellor Jim Woodward said...
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June 11, 2009
RALEIGH (AP) — N.C. State blamed the recession in a letter firing former first lady Mary Easley, making no mention of a hiring flap that has led to several resignations. The termination letter from Interim Chancellor Jim Woodward was released Thursd...
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May 26, 2009
RALEIGH (AP) — Federal investigators have sent subpoenas to the Office of the State Auditor to seek records on former first lady Mary Easley. Subpoenas released Tuesday show that the federal investigators want documents connected to any audits or in...
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May 21, 2009
RALEIGH (AP) — Former North Carolina first lady Mary Easley will not resign from her job at N.C. State, her attorney said today, defying advice of university superiors that she step aside from the $170,000-a-year position. Raleigh lawyer Marvin Schi...
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May 19, 2009
RALEIGH (AP) — Federal investigators have subpoenaed several years of former first lady Mary Easley's employment records, adding to scrutiny of her university job and potential perks given her husband while he was in office. Subpoenas sent Tuesday t...
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May 18, 2009
WINSTON-SALEM — Vice President Joe Biden called on graduates at Wake Forest University on Monday to seize this moment in history to change the nation for the better, warning that failure to do so would leave the country falling behind.Biden said he......
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May 12, 2009
RALEIGH (AP) — U.S. Sen. Kay Hagan said Tuesday she would like to cut the amount of international aid provided in President Barack Obama's budget plan, but she largely praised the proposal as fiscally responsible even though it shatters records with...
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May 4, 2009
RALEIGH (AP) — State health officials on Monday closed a North Carolina elementary school because a student likely has swine flu, and officials are encouraging students who may have been exposed not to visit public places. Arthur W. Edwards Elementa...
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May 1, 2009
RALEIGH (AP) — North Carolina is one of 29 states that has not stockpiled enough flu treatments to meet the federal government's recommendations, but the state's health director says there's no reason for concern.State officials have stockpiled abou...
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April 29, 2009
RALEIGH (AP) — North Carolina health investigators have found no sign of the swine flu in 20 suspected cases they've tested, but officials continue to gather specimens as the virus spreads to other states.State Health Director Dr. Jeffrey Engel said...
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April 27, 2009
RALEIGH (AP) — There are a handful of suspected swine flu cases in North Carolina, and investigators were gathering specimens in Raleigh to determine whether the outbreak had spread to the South, state health officials said Monday. Dr. Jeffrey Engel...
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April 13, 2009
RALEIGH (AP) — The number of U.S. businesses and individuals declaring bankruptcy is rising with a vengeance amid the recession, despite a three-year-old federal law that made it much tougher for Americans to escape their debts, an Associated...
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April 8, 2009
RALEIGH (AP) — A man killed his girlfriend and later started a shootout in the woods with sheriff's deputies that killed a lawman and left the gunman dead, investigators said Wednesday.Craven County sheriff's Capt. Joe Heckman said suspect Clarence...
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April 7, 2009
CARTHAGE (AP) — The man accused of killing eight people in a rampage at a North Carolina nursing home told a hospital nurse after the shooting that he "does not remember anything," according to search warrants released Tuesday. The court d...
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April 1, 2009
CARTHAGE — A nurse's assistant whose estranged husband is accused of fatally shooting eight people at the nursing home where she worked recently left the man after their second marriage to each other in two decades, her mother said.
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March 30, 2009
Correction: In stories about a shooting at a North Carolina nursing home, The Associated Press, relying on information provided by authorities in Moore County, reported erroneously the names of four victims and the age of one. The correct names and ages......
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