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February 13, 2012

Widower finds he can love again — despite the pain of loss
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It’s 2005, two years after doctors first found Colleen McGuire’s cancer. At home in her bed, hours before her next chemo­therapy treatment, Colleen tells her husband that she’s done. But he must go on, and she insists, love again.The... Read More

Guilford County's Most Wanted
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Jerry Woolard, 51, is wanted by Greensboro police on charges of forgery and identity theft.Woolard is white, 6 feet tall and weighs 190 pounds, police said. He has brown eyes and hair.His last known address is 1901 Martin Luther King Jr. Drive Read More

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Hurricane Irene damage ruins N.C. waterfowl refuge

HATTERAS (AP) — Migrating water birds that find refuge on North Carolina's Outer Banks are not coming this year, in part because of damage from Hurricane Irene. Read More

Durham DA may lose job over feud with judge
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DURHAM (AP) — Durham County's district attorney is in a fight for her job at a hearing deciding whether she should be removed from office after accusing a senior judge of corruption.A hearing set for Monday is to decide whether Durham District Att... Read More

Candidate for governor suffers messy divorce
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RALEIGH (AP) — One of the first Democrats to announce his bid for governor is involved in a protracted and messy divorce filled with nasty accusations. Read More

N.C. hospitals don't want trials for disputed bills
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RALEIGH (AP) — A Charlotte man stuck with a $14,000 hospital bill he calls inflated and unreasonable wants North Carolina's Supreme Court to rule that courts are open to decide fairness. Read More

Wildfire breaks out in Uwharrie National Forest near Asheboro

ASHEBORO — A wildfire has broken out in the Uwharrie National Forest near Asheboro, and the U.S. Forest Service is asking people to stay away from the area. Read More

N.C. Racial Justice Act hearing continues
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FAYETTEVILLE (AP) — The first evidentiary hearing involving the state's Racial Justice Act is scheduled to continue this week in a Cumberland County courtroom, where prosecutors plan to call four more current or former judges to testify. Read More

Sections of Blue Ridge Parkway to close for 2 months
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ASHEVILLE  (AP) — Two sections of the historic Blue Ridge Parkway in western North Carolina will be closed for roughly two months in order for crews to perform repair work on a pair of tunnels.The National Park Service said the closures will st... Read More

Election year kicks in with N.C. candidate filing
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RALEIGH (AP) — North Carolina's election season is about to begin in earnest with uncertainty about who will run for governor.The candidate filing period begins at noon Monday at the State Board of Elections in Raleigh and all 100 county board offic... Read More

US Airways jet traveling from Charlotte makes emergency landing

CHARLOTTE (AP) — A US Airways passenger jet traveling from Charlotte to Charleston, W.Va., has had to turn around and make an emergency landing. Read More

February 12, 2012

Concealed weapon permits higher among legislators
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RALEIGH — When Rep. Dale Folwell worked on controversial topics such as workers’ compensation reform and immigration policy last year, he aggravated more than a few constituents.“It was a very volatile year for me as an elected official...... Read More

Unity of love and belief
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HIGH POINT — Ellen “Lennie” Gerber, 76, and Pearl Berlin, 87, have a routine. At 8 a.m., Pearl brings Lennie her breakfast — a bowl of cereal — to the chair in the study overlooking the backyard forest and lake. Read More

Top Republican wants vote on birth control mandate

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Conservatives said Sunday the flap surrounding President Barack Obama's birth control mandate was far from over, with Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell saying he'll push to overturn the requirement because it was another example... Read More

$14,419 hospital bill goes to court

RALEIGH — The case of a man who was stuck with a $14,419 bill he calls inflated and unreasonable after three days of care in a Charlotte hospital is going to be heard by the North Carolina Supreme Court. The case, scheduled today, is upsetting offic... Read More

Bra-search at school case goes to state’s high court
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RALEIGH — The case of a teenager who had to untuck her shirt and pull out her bra with her thumb as part of a search for pills at an alternative school in North Carolina is headed to the state Supreme Court. Read More

Fund set up for kids of slain Reidsville couple
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REIDSVILLE — A fund has been set up for the children of Douglas Troy French and LaDonna French, the couple killed during a home invasion last weekend.An account for Whitley French and Hunter French has been established to assist in their health, edu... Read More

Man gets up to 7 years in Lexington killing
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LEXINGTON. (AP) — A 25-year-old Lexington man will spend five to seven years in prison after pleading guilty to a Davidson County shooting death that went unsolved for five years. Read More

$1.5 million bid made for Ghost Town in Sky

MAGGIE VALLEY (AP) — A $1.5 million bid has been made to buy a wild west amusement park in the North Carolina mountains that has been closed for most of the past decade. Read More

Tobacco workers not likely to see big paychecks again

The sun appears to be setting on the era of high-dollar tobacco manufacturing jobs in Winston-Salem.It shouldn't be shocking news to the community that R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co.'s local workforce is shrinking yet again. The company has announced 19 job cu... Read More

Child-abuse convict charged again after toddler found in street

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. Read More

Sentencing set in golfer's fraud case

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... Read More

High Point hospital 'immediate jeopardy' status lifted

HIGH POINT — High Point Regional Health System officials say the hospital's "immediate jeopardy" status has been lifted by the agency that could have discontinued its Medicare funding. Read More

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