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  • Whipped in name game

    10/23/2002 8:40:10 PM PDT · by Servant of the Nine · 21 replies · 74+ views
    News & Observer (Raleigh, NC) ^ | October 23, 2002 | DENNIS ROGERS
    Elizabeth Dole may have spent the past 40 years away from North Carolina, but her sweet-as-pie social skills, honed by generations of Southern ladies, were not dulled by her sojourn with the Yankees. What she did to Erskine Bowles at the beginning of Saturday night's debate was a rhetorical butt-whipping delivered by the reigning queen of the Steel Magnolia Sisterhood. Just call me Elizabeth, she purred from behind the innocent smile of a Columbus County water moccasin. Then she stuck a sterling silver butter knife between that Charlotte frat boy's ribs with her sweet offer to "make it Liddy, as...
  • Still No Sign of Boy

    10/28/2002 2:57:33 AM PST · by God'sgrrl · 42 replies · 392+ views
    News and Record ^ | 10-28-02 | PAUL MUSCHICK
    HIGH POINT -- Christopher Dixon's family expanded the search for him Sunday, pasting up his face elsewhere in North Carolina and hopefully the world. "We've got people going all the way to Charlotte," said Laura Gentry, a cousin of Christopher's father. Christopher, 13, was last seen at about 3:30 p.m. Thursday outside his Gordon Road home. His family fears he was abducted. High Point police have not been able to find any proof of that, but have not ruled it out. "We have it classified as a missing person," Capt. Ron Stowe said. "There's nothing at this point to indicate...
  • Past, Present Presidents May Play Role In Senate Race (Dole v. BOWELS race)

    10/25/2002 9:21:10 AM PDT · by Constitution Day · 6 replies · 240+ views
    WRAL TV-5 (Raleigh, NC) ^ | October 25, 2002 | Stephanie Hawco/Kamal Wallace
    <p>While Democrat Erskine Bowles believes he is gaining ground in the U.S. Senate race, Elizabeth Dole is calling on President George Bush to help rally her troops.</p> <p>Bush returned to North Carolina Thursday to support Republicans. Dole is tying her Senate bid to the president, who has backed her campaign from the beginning.</p>
  • Dole Campaigns at (Nash County, NC) Courthouse

    10/23/2002 7:36:20 AM PDT · by Constitution Day · 10 replies · 740+ views
    Rocky Mount Telegram (Rocky Mount, NC) ^ | October 22, 2002 | Ned B. Hunter
    Dole campaigns at courthouseBy Ned B. Hunter, Rocky Mount Telegram NASHVILLE, NC - Republican U.S. Senate candidate Elizabeth Dole rolled into Nashville on Tuesday to begin her final campaign tour across North Carolina. Traveling in the blue and silver "Eliza-bus," Dole stumped on the steps of Nash County Courthouse, swearing not to steal from Social Security. "I will never vote to take one penny from Social Security," Dole said. "I will never vote to increase the payroll tax for Social Security." Dole said she was against privatizing Social Security but would support a plan allowing Americans to invest as much...
  • Dole Bus Tour

    10/23/2002 6:12:09 AM PDT · by carolina rebel · 3 replies · 134+ views
    self | Oct 23, 2002 | Carolina Rebel
    The Elizabeth Dole Bus Tour will stop at the Governmental Plaza in Downtown Greensboro, North Carolina Saturday Oct.26th Festivities begin at 4:30pm.
  • (N.C. Representative) Arnold: 'General Assembly out of control'

    10/18/2002 11:35:26 AM PDT · by Constitution Day · 3 replies · 143+ views
    Rocky Mount Telegram (Rocky Mount, N.C.) ^ | October 18, 2002 | Tom Murphy
    Arnold: 'General Assembly out of control'By Tom Murphy, Rocky Mount Telegram N.C. Rep. Gene Arnold, R-Nash, says the General Assembly is totally out of control. "During the last four years, the General Assembly has been reactionary rather than having a long-range plan and has reacted to the event of the day," Arnold told Rocky Mount Kiwanis Club members Thursday at the Carleton House. "There is no fiscal policy. The state has no fiscal policy and simply reacts to the moment. It determines projects and then goes out to find the money." Arnold said the General Assembly's last session lasted 129...
  • Blacks Upset That Bowles Is Distancing Himself From Clinton

    10/17/2002 6:39:58 PM PDT · by jern · 20 replies · 198+ views
    WRAL ^ | Oct. 17, 2002 | WRAL
    <p>Republicans wasted little time in TV ads criticizing Bowles over his previous ties to the White House. On the campaign trail, Bowles is careful to distance himself from his former boss, President Bill Clinton. But his campaign has placed an ad in The Carolinian, an African-American newspaper, touting his experience as Clinton's chief of staff.</p>
  • Defector from NC sees abductee wife off at North Korea airport

    10/15/2002 10:22:25 AM PDT · by Constitution Day · 22 replies · 1,338+ views
    Durham Herald-Sun (Durham, NC) ^ | October 15, 2002 | Audrey McAvoy, Associated Press Writer
    Defector from NC sees abductee wife off at North Korea airport By AUDREY McAVOY, Associated Press Writer October 15, 2002   9:24 am TOKYO -- An American soldier listed as a defector to North Korea saw his Japanese wife off at the airport in Pyongyang on Tuesday as she joined four others returning to Japan for the first time since they were abducted by North Korean spies nearly 25 years ago.But Charles Robert Jenkins of Rich Square, N.C., listed as a deserter from the U.S. Army since the 1960s, told a Japanese official traveling with the abductees that he...
  • UNC to host Islam Awareness Week

    10/11/2002 9:33:22 AM PDT · by Sub-Driver · 84 replies · 489+ views
    New motion filed in fight about Quran reading CHAPEL HILL, N.C.(AP) - Attorneys for the organization that sued the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill over a summer reading program that included a book about the Quran have filed a new motion. The American Family Association's Center for Law and Policy said in an amended federal court complaint that UNC is attempting to push Islam upon its students. The university is hosting a number of events related to the religion this fall, the complaint said. The group, which counts three unnamed UNC students among its five plaintiffs, earlier this...
  • BREAKING NEWS: Jennifer Shorts bones Identified in North Carolina

    10/04/2002 10:34:26 AM PDT · by scab4faa · 60 replies · 288+ views
    cnn ^ | 10/04/02 | cnn
    CNN is reporting The skeletal remains in North Carolina has been dna identified as Jennifer Short.
  • EMPAC (Employees Political Action Committee) 2002 Candidate Endorsements

    10/02/2002 5:25:04 AM PDT · by Overtaxed · 7 replies · 113+ views
    State Employees Association NC ^ | Sept. 2002 | Mike Craven
    EMPAC worked under unusual circumstances this election year when it came to endorsing candidates in races for North Carolina House and Senate seats, due to numerous delays created by the controversial legislative redistricting process. The State EMPAC Committee was unable to assign new House and Senate districts to local EMPAC Areas until they were finalized as redrawn in late August. Furthermore, the primaries were not held until Sept. 10, leaving only eight weeks for local EMPAC Areas to conduct their work before the general election Nov. 5. To further complicate matters, local EMPAC Areas that sought to have endorsements published...
  • State Ag Commissioner Works Out Schedule To Pay Campaign Fine

    10/02/2002 4:55:11 AM PDT · by Overtaxed · 7 replies · 150+ views
    WRAL-TV ^ | Oct. 1, 2002 | Cullen Browder
    <p>RALEIGH, N.C. -- Four months after she was fined, North Carolina Agriculture Commissioner Meg Scott Phipps has worked out a schedule to pay off her penalty.</p> <p>In June, the State Board of Elections ordered Phipps to pay 130,000 for campaign finance violations. Phipps' attorneys submitted a proposal Tuesday to pay $30,123 by the end of November.</p>
  • (N.C.) Woman who staged hate crime weeps as she is sentenced to prison

    09/25/2002 10:48:25 AM PDT · by Constitution Day · 50 replies · 500+ views
    Durham Herald-Sun (Durham, NC) ^ | September 25, 2002 | Paul Nowell, Associated Press Writer
    Woman who staged hate crime weeps as she is sentenced to prison By PAUL NOWELL, Associated Press Writer September 25, 2002   1:54 am CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- Jaelyn Sealey, a former North Carolina woman who admitted she staged a hate crime at her home more than two years ago to collect insurance money, wept as she was sentenced to six months in prison.Sealey, 35, formerly of Huntersville, declined to address the court before she was sentenced Tuesday by U.S. District Judge Lacy Thornburg, who also ordered that Sealey be on supervised release for two years after she is released.Sealey...
  • Church sues school board over censorship

    09/24/2002 11:22:47 PM PDT · by Kwilliams · 51 replies · 343+ views
    WND ^ | 09/25/02 | Ron Strom
    A church has filed suit against a North Carolina school board and principal after a middle school refused to approve a church-sponsored sign for its athletic field that included a Bible verse. Oxford Baptist Church of Oxford, N.C., had hoped to participate in a school fund-raiser. The school district had encouraged local supporters of the school – businesses, nonprofits and other organizations – to purchase signs for display at the school's athletic field for a cost of $300. According to the Alliance Defense Fund, which has filed the suit on the church's behalf, the church chose a sign with a...
  • Original Hatteras Light Lens Found in Storage

    09/19/2002 12:59:18 PM PDT · by Constitution Day · 59 replies · 395+ views
    WRAL-TV (Raleigh, NC) & AP ^ | September 19, 2002 | The Associated Press
    <p>The original lens for the Cape Hatteras Lighthouse, long thought lost to war or thieves, has been found in a climate-controlled storage building on Roanoke Island.</p> <p>The 6,000-pound Fresnel lens is made up of 1,000 pieces of precision glass prisms. Lighthouse lantern rooms using Fresnel lenses captured and concentrated light from the prisms and bounced it through a panel, making the beam blink.</p>
  • (NC) House votes on lottery today (Democrats tie plan for Nov. 5 referendum to delayed budget bill)

    09/17/2002 6:54:37 AM PDT · by jern · 15 replies · 366+ views
    Charlotte Observer ^ | Sept. 17, 2002 | ANNA GRIFFIN AND SHARIF DURHAMS
    Posted on Tue, Sep. 17, 2002 House votes on lottery today Democrats tie plan for Nov. 5 referendum to delayed budget bill ANNA GRIFFIN AND SHARIF DURHAMS Staff Writers RALEIGH - The N.C. House of Representatives will vote on both a lottery referendum and a budget today. But Democratic leaders are hedging their bets about whether tying the numbers game to the budget would save or sink it. After hours of bleary-eyed backroom debate, legislative leaders went to bed Monday with a budget compromise that includes a Nov. 5 vote on the lottery as part of a $14 billion spending...
  • Ballance Wins 1st District Nomination (GOP Dority trails 52-42)

    09/11/2002 11:57:17 AM PDT · by Jomini · 4 replies · 148+ views
    Henderson (NC) Dispatch ^ | September 11, 2002 | Michael Jacobs
    State Sen. Frank Ballance won the Democratic primary for the 1st Congressional District on Tuesday, defeating three other candidates seeking to succeed U.S. Rep. Eva Clayton. Ballance, an 18-year veteran of the General Assembly and No. 2 leader in the state Senate, had the endorsement of Clayton, the first black woman elected to Congress from North Carolina. Ballance saw that endorsement critical. "It was tremendously important," the Warrenton lawyer said. "I said all along that I wouldn't have been in the race if she had supported any of the other three candidates. Anyone that doesn't know that hasn't been around...
  • Volunteers needed for NC GOP booth at NC State Fair!

    09/15/2002 12:12:24 PM PDT · by Constitution Day · 13 replies · 165+ views
    GOP-Pat, ncweaver, Constitution Day ^ | September 15, 2002 | Constitution Day
    Old North State FReepers,GOP-Pat is organizing people to volunteer at the NC GOP booth at the State Fair, which runs October 18th - October 27th.I am planning to be there with ncweaver for the morning slot (9 am- 12 noon) on October 18th.However, GOP-Pat says she is looking for volunteers for ALL of the following time slots: 9 am-12pm - Every day 12 pm-3 pm - Oct. 18, 20, 24, 25, 26 and 27 3 pm-6 pm - Oct. 20, 21, 22, 25, 26 and 27 6 pm-9 pm - Oct. 18, 19, 20, 26 and 27 GOP-Pat also said:"None...
  • (Sen. John) Edwards Plans to Spend $1 Million in 'Soft Money' on TV Ads

    09/05/2002 5:18:56 AM PDT · by Constitution Day · 3 replies · 170+ views
    WRAL-TV (Raleigh/Durham/Fayetteville, NC) ^ | September 5, 2002 | Associated Press
    <p>CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- U.S. Senator John Edwards of North Carolina plans to spend at least $1 million in the next nine weeks on nonpartisan television ads - even though he's not running for office.</p> <p>The Democrat must spend the "soft money" held by his political action committee before midnight November 5, when strict campaign finance laws take effect that ban raising or spending such money.</p>
  • Miss N. Carolina Testifies About Topless Photos

    09/04/2002 9:57:15 AM PDT · by 11th Earl of Mar · 74 replies · 316+ views
    By ESTES THOMPSON Associated Press Writer September 4, 2002, 12:15 PM EDT RALEIGH, N.C. -- The woman fighting to retain the Miss North Carolina crown testified Wednesday that the topless photos that initially cost her the title were taken against her will by a former boyfriend. The testimony by Rebekah Revels disputed that of a pageant official, who said earlier that Revels had told him that the shots were taken during "an intimate situation" with no mention that she was an unwilling participant. Revels testified Wednesday that the photos were taken as she was changing clothes. "Of course I didn't...