February 12, 2012
RALEIGH — A man convicted of child abuse 13 months ago was arrested early Saturday after neighbors found his 2-year-old daughter walking in the street in a dirty diaper and the front door of his home was left open.
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A federal judge delayed sentencing for two weeks in a $2.7 million fraud case involving a Wake County man who made a regional name for himself as a professional and amateur golfer.C. Dale Fuller, 52, of Wake Forest is scheduled to go before a federal judg...
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February 10, 2012
APEX — Keith Adams says he simply wanted to reclaim more than 30 of his paintings that were inside Bistro 155, a restaurant that had recently closed.
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February 9, 2012
RALEIGH — A new study released Wednesday by Gov. Bev Perdue said North Carolina had the largest offshore wind resource on the East Coast and that the state should work with industry to develop the wind energy industry.The 15-member panel said wind e...
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RALEIGH — The $2.7 billion debt that North Carolina has incurred to pay unemployment benefits in the wake of the recession has led the N.C. Chamber of Commerce to commission a comprehensive study of the state's unemployment system.
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Authorities seized a roughly 1,000-gallon illegal liquor still just outside of Benson on Tuesday night.A Johnston County Sheriff's deputy responded to a complaint in the area and discovered the still, according to Patty McQuillan, spokesperson for the Nor...
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RALEIGH -- Wake County sheriff's deputies jailed a 33-year-old this afternoon on charges that he raped and molested a 12-year-old girl over a period of years.Investigators think the offenses began in 2001 and ended in 2010,court records show.
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February 8, 2012
A federal court has sentenced a Rocky Mount man to more than six years in prison on gun charges.According to a news release from the U.S. Department of Justice, Justin Omar Lewis and another individual sold a Glock 17 9mm handgun and a Kel Tec 9mm rifle w...
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February 7, 2012
RALEIGH — A Raleigh police officer was shot Monday night as a police tactical team attempted to enter an apartment in the Brier Creek area of town.The officer's injuries are thought to be non-life-threatening, Raleigh police spokesman Jim Sughrue sa...
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February 6, 2012
RALEIGH — A coat worn by a North Carolina officer who was badly wounded at the Battle of Gettysburg has been stowed away at the N.C. Museum of History since 1914.This week, a group of Civil War re-enactors will donate $10,000 to the museum so Collet...
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February 4, 2012
RALEIGH -- About 20 people Friday chanted slogans protesting U.S. sanctions on Iran that President Obama and others say are intended to keep Iran from building nuclear arms.
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February 3, 2012
BLACKSBURG, Va. — Quinn Cook got into the lane to the right of the Virginia Tech basket midway through the second half and found a Hokies defender between him and the basket.
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DURHAM -- Police have charged a man with leaving a firearm unsecured in the presence of a minor after his 4-year-old son accidentally shot himself with a handgun.Donald Brooks Nichols, 40, was charged Tuesday, four days after his son was injured, police C...
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RALEIGH — A high-ranking law enforcement officer in the state Division of Motor Vehicles says his superiors planted a hidden tracking device in his state-issued car in hopes of finding something to use against him in a long-running personnel dispute...
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RALEIGH — Speakers from the American Petroleum Institute, the lobbying arm for the oil and gas industry, said Thursday that the energy industry's self-policing standards should serve as a model for how North Carolina can regulate natural gas explora...
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RALEIGH — Drivers are getting a little good news: Auto insurance rates are not going up this year.This is the second year in a row that the state's auto insurers have not sought a rate increase.
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February 1, 2012
DURHAM — Burt's Bees is looking to gain sales from younger women with a whimsical new brand of natural products that focus on fragrance as a key selling point.
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RALEIGH — Progress Energy will offer customers larger rebates to adopt energy-efficiency programs in their homes while doing away with some programs that are not working or are outdated.
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A federal judge sentenced a Winterville man, who pleaded guilty to being a major heroin supplier to Greenville and Wilmington, to 24 years in prison Monday.Greenville police arrested Daryl Bernard Tyson, 37, in 2010 during an ongoing investigation of hero...
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January 31, 2012
DURHAM — Blake Brower Hubbard and two young friends were trooping through marshy woods in West Durham on Saturday afternoon when Blake decided to clamber up a Duke Energy transmission tower that carries high-tension wires.
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RALEIGH — The Highway Patrol will pay special attention this week to Triangle drivers who aren't paying enough attention.On Wednesday and Thursday, the patrol will conduct a campaign to crack down on distracted drivers. Troopers will be on Interstat...
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January 30, 2012
RALEIGH — Democrats have spent the past year pointing at North Carolina's high ranking in various national business climate and quality-of-life lists to counter the Republican agenda of lower taxes and less regulation. Now, there's a list that gives...
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January 29, 2012
RALEIGH — Two months after Gov. Bev Perdue trumpeted a new gambling compact with the state's Cherokee Indians, live blackjack and poker are inching closer to reality at the tribe's Western North Carolina casino.
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DURHAM — A boy died Saturday in what police believe to be an accidental electrocution.Police said they found him dead during the afternoon in a wooded area at the dead end of King Charles Road. Police did not give details about the identity or age o...
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RALEIGH -- A Raleigh man arrested on a drug charge tried to hide 33 grams of the drug in the back seat of a police cruiser, authorities said.Tremayne Serle Goss, 28, of 1504 Burgundy St., was charged with trying to destroy evidence and with marijuana poss...
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