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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RALEIGH (AP) — The exact motive for the slayings of a North Carolina mother and three of her children may have disappeared with the suicide of the main suspect, but authorities say it could be linked to a heroin distribution ring.For almost a...
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March 4, 2009
RALEIGH (AP) — It's been more than two years since North Carolina put an inmate to death, and the unofficial freeze on capital punishment isn't likely to thaw anytime soon. The number of prosecutors winning death penalty convictions has nearly come to a...
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February 19, 2009
RALEIGH (AP) - Facebook has removed more than 5,500 convicted sex offenders from its social networking Web site since May, Connecticut's attorney general said Thursday. Richard Blumenthal said the world's largest social networking site, which claims to ha...
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GOLDSBORO (AP) - James Johnson's plea Monday to a felony charge in connection with the death of a 17-year-old Wilson girl marked the end of his legal ordeal surrounding the case. Johnson entered an Alford plea to a misprision of a felony charge, meaning h...
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February 18, 2009
DURHAM (AP) - The president of the North Carolina chapter of the NAACP says while a man jailed for three years on a murder charge won't spend more time behind bars, an injustice is still being fought. The Rev. William Barber said Wednesday more needs to b...
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February 4, 2009
RALEIGH (AP) - About 90,000 sex offenders have been identified and removed from the social networking Web site MySpace, company and law enforcement officials said Tuesday. The number was nearly double what MySpace officials originally estimated last year......
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January 29, 2009
RALEIGH (AP) - Larry Whitfield was on foot, his getaway car wrecked, his rookie attempt at robbing a bank thwarted by a set of locked doors, according to detectives. Looking for a place to hide, police say, he found himself inside the home of a frightened...
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November 20, 2008
RALEIGH (AP) — An apology by an N.C. State student for painting racially charged graffiti at the school's free expression tunnel in Raleigh is only the beginning of the healing process, the president of the state NAACP said today. The student, who remai...
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October 28, 2008
RALEIGH (AP) - A North Carolina man was charged Monday with killing his wife, who authorities have said wanted to leave her husband and return to her native Canada with the couple's children. A grand jury indicted Bradley Cooper on a first-degree murder c...
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October 27, 2008
RALEIGH (AP) - A North Carolina man has been charged with killing his wife, whose body was found at a construction site near their home in July. A grand jury indicted Bradley Cooper Monday on a first-degree murder charge in the death of his wife, 34-year......
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October 22, 2008
SMITHFIELD (AP) - For years, Sheriff Steve Bizzell watched the number of illegal immigrants in his rural county skyrocket - and with it, he says, residents' fear that the newcomers were responsible for more than their share of crime. So he helped make Nor...
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October 21, 2008
RALEIGH (AP) - A lawsuit seeking to block the sale of Wachovia Corp. to Wells Fargo & Co. has been filed in a Mecklenburg County court, attorneys said Tuesday. One reason for the suit is a move by Charlotte-based Wachovia to allot Wells Fargo 39.9 per...
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September 22, 2008
RALEIGH (AP) - Work paused for awhile at the Caldwell County Sheriff's Office as employees paid their respects to Deputy Adam William Klutz, whose body was brought to the department's headquarters for viewing. Klutz, 25, was shot in the head Friday night...
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August 26, 2008
HILLSBOROUGH (AP) - A former student was sentenced to up to 33 years in prison Tuesday for plowing his sport utility vehicle into a crowd at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in a self-professed bid to avenge Muslim deaths overseas. Mohammed...
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August 12, 2008
HILLSBOROUGH (AP) — A former student accused of plowing his sport utility vehicle into a campus crowd and hitting nine people in a self-professed bid to avenge Muslim deaths overseas pleaded guilty today to first-degree attempted murder.Mohammed Taheri......
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August 11, 2008
HILLSBOROUGH (AP)- Eve Carson was, some might say, being responsible when she decided to stay home and study as her college roommates went out on a Tuesday night. She was still working on her computer around 3:30 a.m. as a young man and teenager combed he...
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July 31, 2008
RALEIGH (AP) - Federal prosecutors have opened their own investigation into the killing of former University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill student body president Eve Carson, according to a letter made public Thursday. U.S. Attorney Anna Mills Wagoner m...
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July 30, 2008
FAYETTEVILLE (AP) — The Fort Bragg sergeant charged in the death of a pregnant soldier was the father of her unborn baby but married to someone else, police said Wednesday.Fayetteville Police Chief Tom Bergamine said during a news conference that Sgt. E...
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