Rain drenched North Carolina as storms cause damage and asks SBA aid
Gov. Hunt urged the Small Business Administration to grant low interest loans to homeowners and businesses hit by last weekend's heavy rains from Tropical Storm Jerry. Initial estimates show 343 dwellings and five businesses damaged, with 203 homes sustaining major damage. In Sylva, the torture murder case's final defendant Robert Lee Trantham faces up to 110 years. In Durham, 79-year-old Jean Stout fought off a robber after a fake claim about a car dent. In Fayetteville, Robert Anderson challenges voter fraud findings against Rep. Charlie Rose, alleging Rose's residence and bribery-related voting irregularities in Robeson County.
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Raleigh
Jim Hunt
Small Business Administration
Jerry
Robert Lee Trantham
Vickie Jumper Fox
Kenneth Ray Fox
Michelle Shook Vinson
Carleton Eugene Anderson
Tony Queen
Queen
Toccoa
Durham
Jean Stout
Stout
Revco
Fayetteville
U.S
Charlie Rose
Robeson County
Robert Anderson
Rose
North Carolina
Virginia
Anderson
House Oversight Committee
Hatteras dives hampered by weather and ruptured hoses
Diver operations to raise the Civil War ironclad Monitor near Cape Hatteras were slowed by choppy seas and two ruptured oxygen hoses. Despite optimism, crews faced repeated surfaceings, with the propeller’s condition uncertain and a heavier cutting torch proposed for underwater work.
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Navy
Chris Kellar
Cape Hatteras
Death-row appeals agency to close in Durham
In Durham, the North Carolina Resource Center will shut down as federal funding ends and the center runs out of money. Lawyers will finish ongoing cases while Henderson Hill remains employed. other attorneys may stop representing death-row inmates. The state will fund indigent counsel, and critics say the move delays justice for condemned inmates.
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Engel
Durham
Henderson Hill
James Drennan
Administrative Office of the Courts
Resource Center
Drennan
Andy Whiteman
Raleigh
Congress
House
Jack Cox
U.S
Charles Taylor
R-N.c
Larry Justus
R-Henderson
U.S. House
Federal Public Defender and
Community Defender
Senate
Federal Public Defender
Cox
Taylor
Interim chief prosecutor named to replace ousted Spivey
Gov. Jim Hunt appointed John E. Carriker senior assistant DA of New Hanover and Pender counties as interim district attorney in the 5th Judicial District after Spivey was removed for using a racial slur. Carriker, 49, has served since 1972 and will serve until Spivey returns or is removed. Spivey appeals a judge's firing ruling.
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Raleigh
Jim Hunt
Jerry Spivey
Spivey
John E. Carriker
Wilmington
New Hanover
Pender Counties
Sth
Carriker
Administration of Justice
John
Hunt
Wake Forest
Ray Jacobs
Denver Broncos
Wrightsville Beach
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