May 23, 2008
PEMBROKE — Corey Bird has called on Lumbee leaders to persuade Robeson County school officials to allow him to wear his eagle feathers during graduation. Bird wants to display the feathers in honor of his late grandfather and mother but was told thi...
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The parents of the sisters killed in December during a high-speed police chase through Franklin and Granville counties are suing the Franklinton officer involved in the 15-mile pursuit and the estate of the man who fled from him. Linsay Erin Lunsford, 18...
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May 21, 2008
RALEIGH — The brothers of two men slain while tailgating in a parking lot before a N.C. State football game received confidential settlements from a Raleigh parking management company as well as money from the state, according to lawyers involved wi...
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May 20, 2008
MEBANE — The State Bureau of Investigation has opened an investigation into Mebane City Councilman Bob Hupman after a woman told police that he had sexually assaulted her.In an e-mail sent to the Burlington Times-News newspaper on Monday, N.C.
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MEBANE — The State Bureau of Investigation has opened an investigation into Mebane City Councilman Bob Hupman after a woman told police that he had sexually assaulted her.In an e-mail sent to the Burlington Times-News newspaper on Monday, N.C.
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May 16, 2008
SMITHFIELD (MCT) — Ruth Davis banked on looking like just another granny in the slow lane.But the 65-year-old Floridian was on business. A high-dollar delivery — 33 pounds of premium pot — was locked up in the trunk of her rented Chevy I...
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SMITHFIELD (MCT) — Ruth Davis banked on looking like just another granny in the slow lane.But the 65-year-old Floridian was on business. A high-dollar delivery — 33 pounds of premium pot — was locked up in the trunk of her rented Chevy I...
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CHARLOTTE (MCT) — As food and gas prices hit historic highs, Duke Energy is shutting off more customers this year because they can't pay their power bills. Duke Energy, the largest utility in the Carolinas, disconnected 14 percent more N.C. customer...
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CHARLOTTE (MCT) — As food and gas prices hit historic highs, Duke Energy is shutting off more customers this year because they can't pay their power bills. Duke Energy, the largest utility in the Carolinas, disconnected 14 percent more N.C. customer...
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SMITHFIELD — Smithfield police have begun identifying women seen on some of the hundreds of videotapes taken from the home of a semiretired pharmacist who was charged last month with peeping into a woman's window. Ben Earl Pell, 58, could face more...
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May 15, 2008
A man wanted in a Randolph County stabbing, the kidnapping of his pregnant wife and a car theft has been extradited to North Carolina. Charles Teague, 30, of Greensboro, faces two counts of attempted murder and one count of first-degree burglary and kidna...
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LEXINGTON — Authorities have identified the Davidson County Sheriff's Office officers involved in the fatal shooting of an armed suspect during a hostage situation last week. A N.C. Attorney General's Office spokeswoman said Lt. Marvin K. Potter, Lt...
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CARTHAGE — Twenty-nine animals with a variety of health problems have been seized from a Moore County farm by local animal control officers. Two llamas, eight cattle and 19 horses were taken from Hilltop Farm on Cypress Church Road to a 20-acre past...
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May 14, 2008
GREENSBORO - It looks like the Piedmont Triad Regional Water Authority may not have to consider a joint agreement among High Point, Greensboro and Jamestown regarding the pump station that eventually will be built on N.C. 62/Coltrane Mill Road. At a water...
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RALEIGH Multi-tasking drivers can still talk on their cell phones while traveling, despite an e-mail being circulated throughout the state to the contrary. A spam e-mail alerting people to a statewide ban beginning July 1 for all motorists speaking on ce...
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May 13, 2008
A truck driver pleaded guilty yesterday to felony death by vehicle, admitting that he was on methamphetamine when he killed a man last year by slamming into the man's car stopped at a red light in Forsyth County. Carlos Edward Williams Jr., 43, will spend...
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HIGH POINT Getting a street gun may be relatively easy, but in theory, at least it's not supposed to be under state and local laws. A permit from the sheriff's office is required for purchasing a handgun. A background check is performed and a permit is...
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HIGH POINT A woman killed in a police-involved shooting in March was shot four times, according to an autopsy report. Lori Ann Strickland Hopper, 38, died from multiple gunshot wounds in the head and back in a March 26 confrontation with a High Point pol...
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May 12, 2008
RALEIGH In Andy Hart's world, many drivers are unwilling to let bikes and cars co-exist on Triangle streets. He's had the broken bones to prove it. In the past two weeks, one cyclist was killed in Raleigh when a pickup truck demolished her bike. Another...
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May 7, 2008
GOLDSBORO When the sky darkens at night, Tomeshia Lasha Artis paces the hallways of her Wayne County home. She peers into the faces of her three sleeping children, then tugs at their windows to check the locks once more. Artis is 33, two decades past the...
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May 6, 2008
RALEIGH Freed death row inmate Levon "Bo" Jones said Monday that the prosecutors and police in his case should be punished for withholding favorable evidence at his 1993 trial. ''They should be accountable for everything they did," Jones, 49, said at a R...
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May 1, 2008
GIBSONVILLE — Nine juveniles have been charged this week with breaking into the former Gibsonville Elementary School several times, ransacking classrooms and causing thousands of dollars in damages. Gibsonville police said the juveniles, who are bet...
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HIGH POINT Elected officials, community leaders and members of the High Point Chamber of Commerce met Tuesday for an update on how the city is coping amid an economic slowdown. The news was mostly positive, especially from Loren Hill, president of the Hi...
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WINSTON-SALEM Curse words, stars and scribbles are painted on and around the basketball courts at Rupert Bell Park in Winston-Salem. It is the latest front in the city's continuing battle against vandalism at public parks. And this incident seems to be h...
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BATH In a pirate-worthy broadside on conventional history, a Raleigh author claims that Blackbeard and many of his henchmen weren't rogue Englishmen, but sons of North Carolina landowners. Most historical accounts contend that the notorious pirate known...
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