http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/nc-news/ en-us Mon, 6 Jul 2009 04:13:25 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2286286/posts Three Republicans on the House panel that oversees the Census Bureau have asked fellow GOP Rep. Michele Bachmann of Minnesota to end her plans to boycott next year’s count. Reps. Patrick McHenry of North Carolina, Lynn Westmoreland of Georgia and John Mica of Florida issued a statement saying every elected representative has a “responsibility” to encourage participation in the 2010 Census. “Boycotting the constitutionally mandated census is illogical, illegal and not in the best interest of our country,” they stated. . . . . . McHenry, Westmoreland and Mica – no fans of Acorn – pointed out an “unfortunate irony”... The Wall Street Journal - Washington Wire http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2286286/posts#comment Mon, 6 Jul 2009 04:13:25 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2285457/posts OCRACOKE, N.C. A fireworks truck exploded this morning on Ocracoke Island, N.C., injuring five to seven people, a dispatcher with the Hyde County Sheriff’s Office said. The explosion occurred at about 9 a.m., he said. Paramedics are transporting the injured people to the hospital for treatment. No additional information was immediately available. Pilotonline http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2285457/posts#comment Sat, 4 Jul 2009 15:52:32 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2285362/posts DURHAM -- As a Durham officer shot Thursday recovers from a second surgery, relatives of the man charged in the shooting say he acted in self-defense. Officer D.J. Youmans remained in stable condition at Duke Hospital Friday. His family has arrived from New York to be with him. "We're just praying a whole lot," Durham Police Chief Jose L. Lopez Sr. said before returning to the hospital Friday afternoon. Youmans, a Durham officer for less than two months, and his training officer, Cpl. B.D. Schnee, were responding to a shots-fired call at the South Square Townhomes on Shannon Road about... newsobserver.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2285362/posts#comment Sat, 4 Jul 2009 12:00:38 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2284664/posts Running out of places to raise taxes, NC proposes tax hikes on Internet transactions that would require out of state retailers to collect taxes on NC consumers. Retailers are fighting back citing a Supreme Court ruling which states it violates the interstate commerce clause of the constitution. Stop eTaxes http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2284664/posts#comment Fri, 3 Jul 2009 05:47:38 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2284100/posts DURHAM -- A federal affidavit submitted by a Washington, D.C., detective tells a chilling story of the abuse of a 5-year-old adopted boy. The child's father, Frank McCorkle Lombard, 42, of Indigo Creek Trail in Durham, is charged with sex offense with a child, and is accused of persuading someone to cross state lines for illegal sexual activity. Lombard, a Duke University administrator, was released from the Durham County jail into U.S. marshals' custody Tuesday and is expected to face a federal judge in Washington within the next week. If convicted, he could face as long as 20 years in... Raleigh News & Obstructor http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2284100/posts#comment Thu, 2 Jul 2009 14:58:04 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2283712/posts Editor's note: The content of this story is graphic in nature and may be objectionable to some readers. Frank Lombard News coverage of a Duke University official accused of raping his adopted 5-year-old son and offering the child to someone else is apparently lacking what some say is a key piece of information: the fact the alleged perpetrator is a homosexual who lives with another "gay" man. Frank Lombard, associate director of the Health Inequalities Program at the university's Center for Health Policy, was arrested last Wednesday in Raleigh, N.C., for attempting to induce someone to cross state lines to... http://www.wnd.com/ http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2283712/posts#comment Thu, 2 Jul 2009 00:22:07 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2283438/posts A University employee was charged by the FBI with child sex abuse June 24 in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. Frank Lombard, 42, associate director for the Health Inequalities Program at the Center for Heath Policy, is charged with enticing an undercover police officer over the Internet to take part in interstate travel in order to engage in an illegal sex act with a minor during a sting conducted by the FBI and Metropolitan Police Department for the District of Columbia's Child Exploitation Task Force, according to a news release from the FBI. According to The (Raleigh)... http://media.www.dukechronicle.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2283438/posts#comment Wed, 1 Jul 2009 18:21:57 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2283305/posts Caution: This story contains descriptions that some may find offensive.A professor of criminology at the University of North Carolina-Wilmington says the outrage over a homosexual statutory rape case at Duke University is a deafening sound of silence. Frank Lombard, associate director of Duke University's Center for Health Policy, has been accused of molesting his adopted five-year-old African-American son and offering him up for sex with strangers on the Internet. Lombard's homosexual partner, who resides in the same house with Lombard, was allegedly unaware of the activities.   Mike Adams is a professor at UNC-Wilmington and has written several pieces on the... http://www.onenewsnow.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2283305/posts#comment Wed, 1 Jul 2009 15:21:19 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2283235/posts Ex-employees, backed by SEIU, say working-class and immigrant clients are urged to sign up for multiple services that carry high interest rates and fees. BofA denies any wrongdoing. CHARLOTTE, N.C., June 30 (UPI) -- Nine former Bank of America employees accused the bank of over-selling services to Hispanic clients to create financial chaos that would result in bank fees. "We were coached every day to push multiple checking accounts, credit cards and debit cards even when the customer didn't understand how to use them," said former employee Gabby Ornelas of Landover Hills, Md. Ornelas, who speaks Spanish, said she was... Times of the Internet http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2283235/posts#comment Wed, 1 Jul 2009 13:54:37 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2283153/posts HOLLY HILL – A security alarm went off at a Holly Hill accountant’s residence in the pre-dawn hours Tuesday, rousing the sleeping homeowner who grabbed his gunshot, confronted an intruder standing in his doorway and shot the burglar in the shoulder. L. Glenn Littlejohn, 71, of 1244 Peake St. interrupted the suspect, Roosevelt Elmore Jr., at around 4:55 a.m. as Elmore stood in the doorway of Littlejohn’s home, according to police. Holly Hill Police Chief Robert Wunderlich said an unarmed Elmore allegedly forced his way though a doorway into the kitchen of the victim’s home. Littlejohn, after being awakened by... Times Democrat http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2283153/posts#comment Wed, 1 Jul 2009 12:00:29 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2283013/posts A Duke University official is accused of offering his 5-year-old adopted son for sex on the Internet, according to the FBI and court documents in the case. Frank M. Lombard is the associate director of Duke University's Center for Health Policy. Frank M. Lombard is the associate director of Duke University's Center for Health Policy. Frank M. Lombard, 42, was arrested last week at his home in Durham, North Carolina. During an Internet chat, Lombard allegedly offered the child to the person he was chatting with, who was a task force officer from Washington's Metropolitan Police, the FBI said in... http://edition.cnn.com/ http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2283013/posts#comment Wed, 1 Jul 2009 03:50:43 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2282948/posts Durham, North Carolina–Demonites, feast your eyes upon Frank Lombard, associate director of the Center for Health Policy at Duke University. Now, how in the hell did such a prestigious fella end up gracing the pages of the Dreamin’ Demon? Unpaid parking tickets? Overdue library books? Jaywalking? Nah. Seems Mr. Lombard is quite the scummy perv. Lombard was recently arrested and charged with allegedly offering, over the Internet, to have an out-of-state pervert molest his adopted 5-year-old son. Heh…an accommodating and generous perv. How nice… http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2282948/posts#comment Wed, 1 Jul 2009 01:55:30 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2282934/posts It's the gays, no doubt about it. No, wait. It's those darned communal-living enclaves. Scratch that. It's Duke University and President Obama. That's who done it. Predictably irrational responses from the usual Internet riffraff. Those braying, brave bloggers -- brave, that is, as long as they're hiding behind the anonymity of the Internet -- would have us believe that those groups and others are responsible for the alleged sexual assault of a 5-year-old boy by the Duke University administrator who adopted him and is accused of trying to pimp him out so that others could abuse him. Frank Lombard, associate... http://www.newsobserver.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2282934/posts#comment Wed, 1 Jul 2009 01:29:55 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2282809/posts We all remember the infamous Duke University rape frame-up case, in which three white lacrosse players were falsely accused of raping a black female stripper. It was front-page news coast to coast, as it had all the elements of a mainstream-media cause célèbre: the perfect victim and the perfect villains, a “downtrodden” black woman of modest means and three “privileged” white college boys. Thus did the hard-left alliance of media, academia, and a Democrat prosecutor try its best to lynch the three, and if the stripper’s story hadn’t changed with the wind, the students could very well be sitting in... http://www.thenewamerican.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2282809/posts#comment Tue, 30 Jun 2009 22:17:29 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2282202/posts Sitting in a Durham County jail cell, Frank M. Lombard, the Duke University researcher accused of offering his adopted 5-year-old son for sex, awaits a trip to Washington, D.C., this week to face federal criminal charges. After waiving an extradition hearing Friday morning, he was locked in the Durham jail Saturday without bail. Federal authorities say Lombard, 42, of 24 Indigo Creek Trail, performed sexual acts on his son and invited an undercover investigator online to fly to North Carolina and do the same. Lombard owns the home with another man, according to Durham County property records. The pair bought... http://www.newsobserver.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2282202/posts#comment Tue, 30 Jun 2009 05:06:51 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2282509/posts It’s slowly starting to make the news, now.  To be sure, the “mainstream” media is doing as little as possible to cover this heinous crime, but the new media is starting to make it know despite their efforts to promote their “objective bias.”I’m talking about Frank Lombard, Associate director of Duke University’s Center for Health Policy, and his despicable molestation of a 5-year old boy he adopted.According to RPV Network, Lombard was recently arrested by the FBI and charged with offering up his adopted 5-year-old African American son for sex to an undercover cop. Lombard admitted to molesting his own... http://www.dakotavoice.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2282509/posts#comment Tue, 30 Jun 2009 16:30:53 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2282282/posts The book proposal from a man who was one of former Sen. John Edwards' closest aides claims that Edwards promised him to "take care of you for life" in return for falsely claiming he was the father of the baby carried by Edwards' mistress, Rielle Hunter. The aide, Andrew Young, sold his book proposal to St. Martin's Press for an undisclosed price late last week. In his proposal, Young quotes Edwards, a Democrat who was his party's vice-presidential nominee in 2004 and ran for president last year, as begging him to confess to fathering Hunter's baby. "'You know how much... Raleigh News & Obstructor http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2282282/posts#comment Tue, 30 Jun 2009 11:19:11 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2282254/posts It all began on a hot southern summer day on Indigo Creek Trail much like an episode of one of those to catch a predator shows that are so popular these days and leave honest folk with their mouths slack from incredulity and disgust with the only difference being that instead of a perp coming to a decoy house stocked with fresh made lemonade or sweet tea, cameras, and an moralizing media finger wagger the authorities were instead coming to the house of one Frank Lombard and his male house mate. Frank was a successful gay man so much so... http://www.rpvnetwork.org http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2282254/posts#comment Tue, 30 Jun 2009 09:56:30 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2282148/posts NYDN: Former presidential candidate John Edwards is out of luck if he hoped that the extramarital affairs of Gov. Mark Sanford and Sen. John Ensign would take people's minds off his own cheating scandal. MSNBC http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2282148/posts#comment Tue, 30 Jun 2009 03:10:00 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2281900/posts A black topless dancer lies about a rape that never happened. Three young white men are brought up on the charges and brought to the brink of having their lives totally ruined. Al Sharpton marches. (And he still never apologized). The media sings loudly. Now, the media is silent. And this case should get just as much publicity as any other. But it won't. It won't because it involves a homosexual researcher from the University who molested his own adopted five year old son. ...and also gave offered him out to other homosexual pedophiles online who wished to molest him.... Town Hall http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2281900/posts#comment Mon, 29 Jun 2009 21:29:24 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2281811/posts A new and even more scandalous rape allegation has surfaced at Duke University. Yet the usual media and campus PC crowd are keeping mighty quiet. Identity politics apparently trumps all sense of outrage. Of course, after the disgraceful media and university reaction to the phony allegations against Duke Lacrosse team members, it is wise avoid jumping to conclusions, but the comparative silence on the current case is nonetheless remarkable, considering how many particulars of the case were left out of the main AP account. Mike Adams, writing on Townhall, lays out the facts the MSM won't: Frank Lombard is the... American Thinker.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2281811/posts#comment Mon, 29 Jun 2009 19:48:11 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2281691/posts A small, private college in North Carolina is asking creditors to be patient as it tries to raise money to pay nearly $1 million in past-due bills. Greensboro College, with 1,300 students,already has cut salaries 20 percent and a week ago was told to pay an $8,000 electric bill or lose power, The News & Record of Greensboro reported Sunday. Next, a sheriff's deputy brought a summons to small claims court to the college telling officials to appear because of an overdue office supply bill of $1,245. The 161-year-old liberal arts college also owed $136,889 for cafeteria service, $13,388 for... FOX 8 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2281691/posts#comment Mon, 29 Jun 2009 15:26:30 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2281645/posts The on-line rape of his 5-year-old adopted son by Duke University's openly-gay, Frank Lombard, is no anomaly. Instead, Lombard's molestation fits the pattern that emerged in the latest review of the scientific literature about gay fathers. Lombard lives with his gay partner, another Duke University employee. The Arrest Warrant documents that Lombard sodomized one of his two adopted African-American sons and made the boy give him oral sex on-line. He offered other gays the same opportunity. Although the boy was drugged, "it is likely he developed interest in gay sex through these activities," said Dr. Paul Cameron, an expert in... christiannewswire http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2281645/posts#comment Mon, 29 Jun 2009 14:06:39 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2281587/posts About two months ago, I heard from an old friend with whom I had lost touch. Most of what he had to say revolved around his relationship with a man with whom he is now living. (snip) He said he and his boyfriend needed a church that is more tolerant. I’m going to recommend that he give The Episcopal Church of the Advocate in Carrboro, North Carolina a try. Until a couple of days ago, the Advocate website (www.ouradvocate.org) had a list of the members of its vestry, which included Frank Lombard. But after Lombard was arrested for allegedly trying... Townhall.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2281587/posts#comment Mon, 29 Jun 2009 12:40:33 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2281166/posts Aide Claims John Edwards Made Sex Tape Updated 11:15 AM EDT, Sun, Jun 28, 2009 Related Topics:Rielle Hunter Former aide Andrew Young says John Edwards is the father of mistress Rielle Hunter's daughter. A former aide to John Edwards claims the ex-senator and his mistress made a sex tape, according to someone who saw the book proposal. Former aide Andrew Young -- who signed a deal with St. Matin's Press to pen a tell-all book -- says in his proposal that he is not the father of mistress Rielle Hunter's daughter and that the ex-senator, who has denied paternity, is... nbcphiladelphia.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2281166/posts#comment Sun, 28 Jun 2009 15:33:16 GMT