February 8, 2012
BRYSON CITY (AP) — Two social service workers have been accused of falsifying records and indicted on obstruction of justice charges in the investigation of the death of a 1-year-old girl.Candice Lassiter and Craig Smith were indicted Tuesday. Lassi...
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January 8, 2012
BRYSON CITY (AP) — Ruth McCoy says she pleaded for months to have her niece's 1-year-old daughter removed from a dirty mobile home that did not have heat in western North Carolina.When social workers and sheriff's deputies arrived on a cold night in...
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January 5, 2012
CHARLOTTE (AP) — The woman sentenced to prison for killing her 10-year-old disabled stepdaughter also pleaded guilty today to a federal drug charge.
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November 17, 2011
ROCK HILL, S.C. (AP) — At least six people have been killed and dozens more injured as a storm system that spawned several possible tornadoes moved across the Southeast.
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August 27, 2011
NAGS HEAD (AP) — Weaker but still menacing, Hurricane Irene knocked out power and piers in North Carolina, clobbered Virginia with wind and churned up the coast Saturday to confront cities more accustomed to snowstorms than tropical storms. New York...
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August 26, 2011
NAGS HEAD (AP) — Hurricane Irene began lashing the East Coast with rain Friday ahead of a weekend of violent weather that was almost certain to heap punishment on a vast stretch of shoreline from the Carolinas to Massachusetts.
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May 27, 2011
CHARLOTTE (AP) — Nearly 2 ½ years after a US Airways jet made a miraculous landing on the Hudson River, passengers and crew members will reunite in the North Carolina city where the aircraft was bound on that January day.
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March 1, 2011
CHARLOTTE (AP) — Charlotte/Douglas International Airport plans to increase police staffing and make other improvements to bolster security after an apparent stowaway died in the wheel well of a jet flying to Boston. But a Massachusetts congressman s...
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January 4, 2011
NEWTON (AP) — Zahra Baker's stepmother has told police the disabled 10-year-old girl died more than two weeks before her parents reported her missing. According to search warrants unsealed Tuesday, Elisa Baker told Hickory police in November that th...
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October 28, 2010
VALE (AP) — The National Weather Service says the storm that ripped through a Lincoln County town and hurt at least 11 people was a tornado.The weather service said today the twister that ripped through a three-mile stretch near Vale packed winds up...
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October 27, 2010
HICKORY, N.C. (AP) — Searchers looking for the remains of a missing North Carolina girl with disabilities found a prosthetic leg and authorities were trying to determine if it was that of the 10-year-old, police said Wednesday.
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October 22, 2010
ASHEVILLE (AP) — It's the type of election year where a small-town dry cleaner with no experience in politics has a chance to upend a widely known former football star flush with campaign cash.
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October 21, 2010
ASHEVILLE, N.C. (AP) — Former President Bill Clinton asked voters Thursday to ignore the negative campaign against Democratic Rep. Heath Shuler, saying he's a fiscal conservative who has worked hard for his district. Shuler is locked in an increasin...
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October 20, 2010
NEWTON (AP) — Dozens of investigators searched a North Carolina landfill Wednesday for evidence in the disappearance of a disabled 10-year-old girl, but said they didn't expect to find the girl's body there.
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October 15, 2010
HICKORY (AP) — The father of a missing 10-year-old said Friday that he is still not sure whether his wife was involved in the girl's disappearance.Baker said he just wants to find Zahra Clare Baker and take her back to the family's native Australia...
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October 14, 2010
CHARLOTTE(AP) — A missing 10-year-old may have been alive when her family moved to a new home in North Carolina in mid-September, police said Thursday. Investigators are having trouble finding anyone outside Zahra Clare Baker's household in Hickory...
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October 13, 2010
HICKORY (AP) — Investigators used a police dog to search among tree-trimming equipment and piles of mulch for a missing 10-year-old North Carolina girl on Wednesday, a day after authorities said they believed the girl had been killed.
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October 12, 2010
HICKORY (AP) — Police indicated Tuesday they believe someone killed a 10-year-old North Carolina girl whose bone cancer left her with a prosthetic leg and hearing aids, saying they were shifting from a missing person search to a homicide investigati...
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October 11, 2010
HICKORY (AP) — Time was running out Monday in the search for a shy but upbeat 10-year-old whose battles with bone cancer left her with a prosthetic leg and hearing aids in both ears, the police chief said. It's unclear when she was last seen alive.
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December 24, 2009
WYTHEVILLE, Va. (AP) — A man accused of taking three people hostage in a Virginia post office told them he was angry at the federal government because his son had died in Afghanistan and his beloved truck was about to repossessed, one of the hostage...
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June 5, 2009
KANNAPOLIS (AP) — Craigslist has eliminated its criticized "erotic section" and pledged to screen entries to its replacement, but Connecticut's attorney general asks whether it's enough following the case of a husband accused of using the...
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June 4, 2009
KANNAPOLIS (AP) — Craigslist is again under scrutiny after a North Carolina man was charged with using the popular online classified site to fulfill his own fantasy by finding someone to rape his wife at knifepoint while he watched. The woman said...
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April 14, 2009
FAYETTEVILLE (AP) — Thousands of friends and families filled the coliseum, cheering and waving as the soldiers walked inside. A few held signs, including: "We miss you daddy." Many cried at the thought of loved ones being deployed to Iraq...
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March 25, 2009
CHARLOTTE (AP) — A man said Wednesday he's renewing his push for Florida authorities to reopen an investigation into the suspicious death of his father, who was the third husband of a Georgia grandmother who has five dead husbands in five states. Mi...
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March 19, 2009
CHARLOTTE (AP) — A suspected opium distributor whose wife and three children were slain in what authorities call a drug-related attack said today he regrets whatever role his dealings played in their deaths."I regret everything," Brian Tze...
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