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November 21, 2009
Where’s the money? Forms mishandled after poker raid
In September 2005, New Hanover County sheriff’s deputies raided a ring of illegal video poker businesses, then took 28 days to return the inventory sheets, which say what they seized during the search, to the county court clerk’s office.
November 20, 2009
McNeill charged with rape, murder in 5-year-old’s death
A Fayetteville man accused of kidnapping 5-year-old Shaniya Davis is now charged with first-degree murder and rape in her death. Police announced the new charges against Mario Andrette McNeill during a news conference Thursday night. Shaniya apparently died of asphyxiation, according to preliminary autopsy results.
November 19, 2009
Police: NC Mom may have used girl to pay debt
Detectives are looking into allegations that Antoinette Davis used her 5-year-old daughter, Shaniya, to pay off a debt. “That’s an avenue of the investigation we’re looking at,“ Fayetteville Police Chief Tom Bergamine said Wednesday. He did not elaborate.
November 18, 2009
Police to add new charges in slain NC girl’s case
Investigators piecing together why and where a 5-year-old North Carolina girl was killed plan to add new charges on top of one for selling the girl for sexual slavery.
Unofficial tally shows Swett new chairman of Lumbee Tribe
Former school administrator Purnell Swett was elected chairman of the Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina in unofficial results Tuesday night. Swett won 3,371 votes. Tony Hunt drew 2,758 votes, and William Terry Campbell had 649 votes.
November 17, 2009
Questions swirl after missing NC girl’s body discovered
A little more than a week before Shaniya Davis vanished, her mother told Carey Lockhart, the aunt who helped raise the 5-year-old, that she’d never see Shaniya again. Those words echoed in Lockhart’s head Monday, hours before searchers pulled a body that police think was Shaniya’s from a thicket of kudzu along the border of Lee and Harnett counties.
November 14, 2009
Kidnapping suspect in jail, but 5-year-old remains missing
A Fayetteville man is in jail after admitting to kidnapping 5-year-old Shaniya Davis, police say, but what happened to the girl after she disappeared Tuesday remains a mystery.
November 12, 2009
Great white shark spotted off Wrightsville Beach
Steve Boehling said he was in awe when he came across the largest ocean creature he had ever seen while fishing about a mile off the coast of Wrightsville Beach. Apparently that large creature lurking off the coast of New Hanover County was a great white shark.
November 11, 2009
Back to Iraq, back on his feet
N.C. National Guard Lt. Ed Salau didn’t really understand what he was fighting for in Iraq until he went back without a gun. Salau, 38, is one of a dozen or so injured soldiers who have returned to Iraq in an experimental program to help them make peace with the place where their lives were changed by war.
November 10, 2009
NC pays millions for state vehicles to sit parked
North Carolina’s state motor fleet is more than 8,500 vehicles strong and travels more than 100 million miles each year. A WRAL News investigation found that some state agencies paid millions for miles they did not drive and others had questionable record-keeping practices.
November 08, 2009
Calabash VFW holds service honoring veterans
The Calabash VFW Post 7288 will have a service at 11 a.m. Wednesday 11 on Veteran’s Day.
November 07, 2009
Officer who stopped Fort Hood rampage is Carolina Beach native
Those who know Kimberly Barbour Munley said they aren’t surprised the Carolina Beach native is the female civilian police officer credited for stopping the deadly shooting at Fort Hood, where 13 people were killed and several others injured.
November 06, 2009
Pembroke bank robbery ends in chase, arrest
A bank robbery Thursday evening ended with an arrest less than a half hour later.
Man fined after spear-fishing grouper off Wrightsville
A man has been ordered to pay a $500 replacement fee after he pleaded guilty to possessing a federally protected fish, caught off Wrightsville Beach this summer, officials said. The N.C. State Marine Patrol charged Alejandro C. Llinas, 31, of Wrightsville Beach with a misdemeanor, alleging he possessed a Goliath grouper on Aug. 21, according to documents filed in New Hanover County District Court.
November 05, 2009
With record prices, the gold rush is on
For this group of modern-day treasure hunters, there are no yellowed maps or tales of buried riches. But on a chilly fall night during a meeting at a volunteer fire department, there was plenty of gold.
November 04, 2009
Family tragedy: NC Murder-suicide shocks, saddens
People who knew Billy Maxwell Jr. tried Tuesday to understand why the man known as a wonderful husband and father shot and killed his wife and two teenage children before turning the gun on himself. “It’s like a nightmare,“ said Cyndi McKinney, a business partner and close friend of Maxwell.
November 03, 2009
Police: NC family’s death a murder-suicide
Police say a prominent Fayetteville businessman shot and killed his wife and two teenage children Monday night before killing himself. One of the victim’s in-laws discovered the bodies and called 911.
NC lottery adds Mega Millions
North Carolinians soon will get twice as many chances to defy the odds and win the jaw-dropping jackpots that stir daydreams of shiny cars, massive homes and instant retirement. And the state lottery will get more ways to make money.
October 31, 2009
I-40 rock slide, football, tourists clog other Western North Carolina roads
Backups could slow travel on interstates around Asheville as football fans and befuddled tourists cope with the closure of Interstate 40 near Tennessee. Traffic for the University of Tennessee-South Carolina football game in Knoxville combined with leaf-season tourists on highways already crowded because of the I-40 rock slide could make for congestion.
October 30, 2009
Teen arrested in Robeson County homicide
Robeson County Sheriff’s deputies arrested a teen in the death of a 21-year-old.
Laurel Hill man dies after tree-falling accident
A Parkton man died after a tree fell on him.
Easley’s lawyer stuns elections board, asks that DA get the case
After four days of putting the campaigns of Gov. Mike Easley and the N.C. Democratic Party under the microscope, the State Board of Elections expects to decide today whether a criminal probe is needed. On Thursday, Easley’s personal attorney told them to skip the deliberation.
October 28, 2009
Ocean Isle beach house fire two years later
Wednesday marks the two-year anniversary of the Ocean Isle Beach fire, that killed seven South Carolina college students.
Report: Real estate speculation led to Cape Fear Bank’s downfall
Cape Fear Bank was brought down by rapid growth and a loan portfolio too heavy on real estate acquisition and development, federal regulators reported Tuesday.
October 27, 2009
Engineers consider 2 strategies for NC rock slide
Engineers are considering two strategies to begin removing rocks as large as a mobile home from Interstate 40 in western North Carolina near Tennessee. The Asheville Citizen-Times reported one plan involves building an access road to the top of rock slide, a job that could take more than a week.
October 25, 2009
Rockslide closes I-40 at mile marker 3
A rockslide has closed Interstate 40 at mile marker 3 in both directions, the state highway patrol has reported. Mile marker 3 is near the Tennessee border in Haywood County.
October 24, 2009
NC identifies 7 more inmates that could be freed
Seven more violent criminals could potentially be freed because of a court ruling and good conduct credits, North Carolina prison officials said Saturday. The men join 20 others who had been preparing for their release, but the future of all the prisoners remains uncertain.
October 23, 2009
Scotland Cancer Treatment Center hosts breast cancer awareness walk
October is Breast Cancer Awareness month and Friday the Scotland Cancer Treatement Center hosted its fourth annual breast cancer awareness walk.
Could more constrictors lurk in Cape Fear region?
What if it wasn’t alone? That’s a worrisome possibility for local ophiophobes to wrap their minds around as they digest how a giant non-native snake ended up on the side of N.C. 133 near Orton Plantation in Brunswick County.
Lumbee tribe inches closer to federal recognition
Approval by key Senate committee moves tribe to its closest point since 1991.
