November 18, 2009
RALEIGH (MCT) — Nicholas Lightner, the 20-year-old son of businessman and anti-gang activist Bruce Lightner, was shot three times Monday during a confrontation in Southeast Raleigh. He is expected to survive.
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November 12, 2009
GOLDSBORO (MCT) — Selling candy didn't raise much money last year, so a Goldsboro middle school tried selling grades.However, the fundraiser came to an abrupt halt Wednesday after a story in The News & Observer raised concerns about the practice...
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November 10, 2009
RALEIGH (MCT) — Two pregnant North Carolina women died of pandemic H1N1 flu during the week of Oct. 25, state health officials confirmed Monday.A spokesman for the state Department of Health and Human Services declined to identify where the two wome...
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October 29, 2009
APEX (MCT) — He is a leader to more than 1.4 million people angry about recent changes to the Facebook Web site. But when he wants to turn on the computer, Jonathan Woodlief has to ask his mother.
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October 25, 2009
RALEIGH (MCT) — Six environmental activists were arrested Saturday in a display of civil disobedience at the Governor's Mansion. They were protesting Duke Energy's controversial plan to build the coal-fired Cliffside power unit in Rutherford County.
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October 14, 2009
RALEIGH (MCT) — An employee at a state mental hospital in Butner was fired and arrested last month after being caught on video choking a child.Ronald Williams, 49, a health-care technician, is charged with assault on a handicapped person, a misdemea...
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October 12, 2009
CHAPEL HILL (MCT) — In a college town where booze is king and pot is popular, the recent arrests of seven current or former UNC-Chapel Hill students on cocaine charges created a stir.The charges were unusual, particularly because two people were cha...
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October 9, 2009
RALEIGH (MCT) — The average Triangle resident could be forgiven for yawning at yet another top-10 ranking for the region. But who doesn't like it when someone says you're the smartest?The Daily Beast, a major news-and-opinion Web site, published a s...
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September 17, 2009
RALEIGH (MCT) — The plastic surgeon accused of second-degree murder in Friday's fatal collision that ended the life of an aspiring professional ballerina spent that afternoon playing golf at Raleigh Country Club before going to a North Raleigh taver...
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September 16, 2009
RALEIGH (MCT) — The owners of a North Raleigh tavern said Tuesday that the plastic surgeon now facing second-degree murder charges was refused alcohol shortly before a collision Friday night that left a ballet dancer dead. Billy McGee, a co-owner of...
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September 15, 2009
CHAPEL HILL (MCT) — Michael Bandes, 25, pleaded guilty to a disorderly conduct charge Monday, saying you can't fight UNC-Chapel Hill in its hometown.Then, a judge dismissed the charges against four fellow protesters and declared a fifth not guilty......
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RALEIGH (MCT) — Dr. Raymond D. Cook was one of the faces of a WakeMed advertising campaign for specialty physicians.But over the weekend, the image of the plastic and reconstructive surgeon changed dramatically — from the smiling physician in...
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September 14, 2009
RALEIGH (MCT) — Elena Bright Shapiro was just starting her post-grad life: She had her first serious boyfriend and her own place in Raleigh, and she was a trainee at the Carolina Ballet, an impressive first step for a young woman who had devote...
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September 4, 2009
RALEIGH (MCT) — Time Warner Cable, the state's biggest cable TV company, will shut down its customer call center in Fayetteville and move the center's 80 jobs to Raleigh and Wilmington. The employees in those jobs, who are paid about $30,000 a year......
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September 2, 2009
CHAPEL HILL (MCT) — UNC-Chapel Hill Chancellor Holden Thorp has asked staff members to investigate whether any university or fraternity policies were violated at a party the night that Delta Kappa Epsilon President Courtland Benjamin Smith was shot...
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September 1, 2009
Two of the three men who drowned in Jordan Lake in a five-day period in July had been drinking alcohol shortly before dying, according to autopsy reports.Alcohol intoxication contributed to the drowning deaths of James J. Adams, 60, a forensic psychiatris...
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August 13, 2009
RALEIGH (MCT) — North Carolina began building its first modern toll road Wednesday. It won't be the last.The $1.01 billion Triangle Expressway will serve Research Triangle Park commuters and other drivers who are so fed up with rush-hour congestion...
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July 1, 2009
In 1971, John Lennon asked audiences to "Gimme Some Truth."Almost four decades later, another performer — Bowzer of Sha Na Na fame — had a similar request for the legislature.The Sha Na Na frontman, whose real name is Jon Bouman, has...
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Raleigh and Cary were among the 10 fastest-growing cities in the nation last year, a new census release shows.As of July 2008, Cary ranked third among cities with 100,000 people or more. Its growth rate of nearly 7 percent came in behind only New Orleans...
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June 26, 2009
CHAPEL HILL (MCT) — The Varsity Theater, a mainstay of downtown that has lured generations of college students and townies across its sticky floors for mainstream movies and obscure art-house flicks, is going dark. Bruce Stone, owner of the theater...
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June 10, 2009
RALEIGH — For months, juniors Dustin Ackley and Alex White have been focused on leading North Carolina to its fourth straight College World Series.But Tuesday night, they got to take a few hours to look forward to their futures — beyond this w...
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June 8, 2009
RALEIGH (MCT) — Mary Easley's $170,000-a-year job at N.C. State — which seems to be vanishing one big bite at a time — is an unusual mix of politics, insider connections and academia, according to a picture of her work that emerges...
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RALEIGH (MCT) — New records show that N.C. State Chancellor James Oblinger cut a deal last month to increase the severance package for former Provost Larry Nielsen, and it was done the day before Nielsen resigned.Moreover, the publicly disclosed ter...
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June 2, 2009
CHAPEL HILL — Charges against seven campus protesters will be heard in September after one had her case continued and the others rejected plea agreements Monday.Haley Koch, a Morehead-Cain scholar at UNC-Chapel Hill, faces a charge of disturbing the...
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June 1, 2009
With the official start of Hurricane Season today, forecasters are calling for a "normal" year of 14 named storms that could threaten the eastern United States.Of those, the National Weather Service predicts seven could become hurricanes, includ...
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