Suspected abuser fired at Woodmen camp near Fort Barnwell
David Robert Short, 47, of Carteret Jones Road, Hili County, was arrested on Wednesday and charged with abusing four minor campers between July 18 and July 22. He was terminated from his supervising post at the Fort Barnwell Woodmen of the World camp, which hosts about 1,200 campers each summer, and released on a $5,000 unsecured bond. Trial set for October 21 in Craven County Superior Court. Woodmen officials stressed strict supervision and minimized contact with boys, noting the camp’s long history and many safeguards.
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Onslow County
Woodmen of the World
Fort Barnwell
David Robert En
Carteret Jones Road
Hili County
Harvey Bedsole
Wood
Short
Swansboro
Air Force
Bedsole
Craven County Superior Court
Robert Homan
Craven
Pamlico
North Carolina
Homan
Fort Barwell
Canada
Dysentery Surges Among Rwanda Refugees in Congo Camps
Dysentery overtakes cholera as the leading illness among over a million Rwandan refugees crowded in camps along Zaire's eastern border. Doctors Without Borders reports 76 dysentery cases versus 33 cholera at one clinic. UN agencies warn of rising deaths and seek $434 million in aid as water and sanitation efforts expand with new tankers and road work near Goma.
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Zaire
U.N
Samantha Bolton
Doctors Without Borders
Bolton
Ray Wilkinson
Geneva
U.N. High Commissioner For
Sadako Ogata
Caen 5
U.N. Children’s Fund
U.S
Finland
U.S. Army
Kibumha
Goma
Convicts tracked from North Carolina toward Virginia
Police pursuing two North Carolina escapees, Thomas Bonney and James Stromer, after a stolen car was found near Waynesboro. Investigators say Stromer, 48, headed toward West Virginia while Bonney, 51, may not have remained in the area. The pair escaped Central Prison Raleigh on Friday, possibly in a garbage truck, with leads shifting toward Chesapeake and Virginia Beach as agents chase new clues.
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North Carolina
Blue Ridge Mountains
West Virginia
Virginia
Waynesboroe
Thomas Bonney
James Stromer
Stromer
Bonney
Waynesboro
C.R. Miller
State Bureau of Investigation
Miller
Chesapeake
Portsmouth
Virginia Beach
Central Prison
Raleigh
N.C
Havelock zoning sparks resident concerns and vote
Havelock residents voice unease as the Planning Board weighs a rezoning request by W S Harrington Jr. from residential to highway commercial for two wooded tracts along Church Road. The land sits behind Crawford’s home and near Woodland Drive and railroad tracks.
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Crawford
Planning Board
City Hall
W.S. Harrington Jr
Church Road
Woodland Drive
North Carolina Railroad
Redistricting suit against NC plan heads to high court
A three judge panel in Raleigh dismisses a suit by five white Durham voters alleging racial gerrymandering in North Carolina's congressional map. The plaintiffs claim the plan packs black voters into the 1st and 12th districts to guarantee two black representatives, while the ruling says the lines meet constitutional standards under the Voting Rights Act.
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U.S. Supreme Court
North Carolina
Durham
U.S
Eva Clayton
Mel Watt
Watt
Clayton
Duke University
Robinson Everett
Melvin Shimm
Shimm
J. Dickson Phillips Jr
Phillips
Richard Voorhees
Voorhees
Wait
Gastonia
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Robert Hasting
Havelock
Harry Wesp
The
Associated Press
Waynesboro, Va
Voters
Ann Landers
Ab Sports
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