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UPDATED: Alleghany County murder suspect arrested in North Carolina
An accused killer is back in Virginia after being on the run from police for nearly two weeks. Adan "Manuel" Rodriguez was arraigned in an Alleghany County courtroom on Wednesday morning. According to court records, he was arraigned. A preliminary...
Tags: Court Preliminary, Extradition, Alleghany County (Virginia), Crimes, Trials
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The woman who paid for Beazer's sins
The Charlotte ObserverEven her husband hasn't seen it. Janette Parker is so embarrassed by the electronic ankle bracelet locked around her right leg that she wears long pants, dresses in private and slips beneath the bedcovers before allowing her closest confidante, the man...Tags: Beazer Homes USA Incorporated, Mortgages, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Target, Companies and Corporations
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Desegregation march re-created today to honor 50th anniversary
The Charlotte ObserverFifty years ago today, Reginald Hawkins led a march from the Johnson C. Smith University campus to the Mecklenburg County Courthouse, in a demand for an end to segregation in Charlotte. Hawkins' son is participating this morning in a re-creation of that...Tags: Dwayne Johnson, Johnson C. Smith University, Charlotte
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GOP legislators use power to control local affairs
ATLANTA (AP) — Even with Republicans holding unprecedented political power across the South, Democrats remain mostly in charge of urban centers in otherwise conservative states. Yet increasingly that control is threatened, not at the ballot box, but...
Tags: Republican Party, Environmental Politics, Democratic Party, Environmental Issues, Local Government
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Sandy Adams is a ‘Public Safety Professional’ for Romney
Central Florida Political Pulse - Orlando SentinelOutgoing U.S. Rep. Sandy Adams, R-Orlando, the former Orange County sheriff's deputy defeated in a bitter primary last month by U.S. Rep. John Mica, R-Winter Park, has been named an honorary co-chair of “Public Safety Professionals” for Mitt... -
Charlotte police investigating fan stadium fall before ACC Championship
CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- According to Charlotte-Mecklenburg County police, a 22-year-old man with Florida ties was listed in critical condition at an area hospital Saturday night after falling nearly four stories outside Bank of America Stadium before the ACC...Tags: Florida State Seminoles, Atlantic Coast Conference, Banking, Bank of America Stadium, Charlotte
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The war correspondent: Strange days on the battlefront
The Saudi lieutenant shouted an order in Arabic. Two dozen of his men, frenzied and hollering, lowered their weapons and backed away from an encircled knot of prisoners. Kneeling at the center of this commotion in the Kuwaiti desert were 10 unarmed...
Tags: Mark Watson, Radio, The Pentagon, Kuwait, Michael Kelly
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Herpes healing comes in numbers
McClatchy Tribune NewspapersSeven years ago, Pam Wisniewski stood in her doctor's office and got some news she thought would ruin her life. "You have genital herpes," a physician's assistant told her. Wisniewski started sobbing. "I felt like I was going to be alone for the rest of...Tags: Genital Herpes, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Viral Diseases and Infections, Diseases and Illnesses, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
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Ex-fund-raiser for Townsend is arrested
Sun StaffA North Carolina Democratic Party activist who raised money for Lt. Gov. Kathleen Kennedy Townsend in 1999 was arrested last week in Southern California and charged with $3.6 million in fraud after disappearing 17 months ago. Andrew Reyes - former...Tags: North Carolina, Democratic Party, Parties and Movements, Kathleen Kennedy Townsend, Crimes
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GOP Has Lock on South, and Democrats Can't Find Key
Times Staff WriterThe generation-long political retreat of Democrats across the South is disintegrating into a rout. President Bush dominated the South so completely in last month's presidential election that he carried nearly 85% of all the counties across the region --...Tags: Justice and Rights, Local Elections, Leon County (Florida), Civil Rights, Executive Branch
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Anti-busing Suit Touches A Deep Nerve
Sun National StaffAnti-busing suit touches a deep nerve in Charlotte Lawsuit: Some white parents will make their case in federal court against integration of schools in landmark civil rights city. On both sides of the issue, they say the same thing: It's not about race....Tags: Chess Playing, Justice and Rights, PTA, Civil Rights, Crime, Law and Justice
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