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Regional Briefs: Plouff case suspect gets new lawyer
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Published: July 8, 2009
The state's capital defender appointed a new lawyer yesterday to represent Keith Antoine Carter, the man accused of killing Howard Plouff, a Winston-Salem police sergeant, in 2007.
Bob Hurley, the capital defender, appointed David Freedman after a judge on Monday granted a request from Carter's previous attorneys, Mark Rabil and Kimberly Stevens, to withdraw from the case.
Freedman said yesterday afternoon that he had just received notice of the appointment and had not yet spoken with Carter, who faces a first-degree murder charge in the death of Plouff, who was shot in the parking lot of a nightclub in the early morning of Feb. 23, 2007.
Police respond to shooting incident
Winston-Salem police officers responding last night to a report of a disturbance involving weapons asked dispatchers to send help after a shot was fired by someone at the scene.
The incident occurred shortly before 10 at 203 Apt. I, Quail Wood Drive off Country Club Road on the west side of Winston-Salem.
Police officials said that no one was hurt and that no shots were fired by officers. The incident was still under investigation, and details were not available at press time.
Bill on eugenics program gains
RALEIGH -- House members have endorsed teaching public-school students about how thousands of people were sterilized in a state program in the mid-20th century.
The House Education Committee approved legislation yesterday that would order that the eugenics program be included in the public- school curriculum. The bill also directs students and professors at UNC campuses to interview program victims so that future generations will know what happened.
About one-third of the 7,600 people sterilized by choice or coercion are still alive. The program ended in the 1970s. The bill now goes to another committee.
Clemmons council gets 4th candidate
A fourth candidate filed for a seat on the Clemmons Village Council yesterday, joining three who had filed Monday in a contest that will place three on the village council this November.
Darrell Roark, making his first run for political office, filed for election to the council.
Two candidates also filed for one each of the six seats up for election to the Lewisville Town Council -- incumbent Tom Lawson, formerly the mayor, was elected to the council in 2007, and Fred W. Franklin, a former council member who waged an unsuccessful write-in campaign in 2007.
Board to weigh school-principal posts
The Winston-Salem/Forsyth County Board of Education will hold a special-called meeting Thursday.
The board will consider candidates for the principal posts at several schools. After opening the meeting, the board will go into closed session to discuss the candidates. It will return to open session to vote on the candidates. The board is not scheduled to discuss any other business.
The meeting is scheduled to begin at 2 p.m. in Room 369 at the school system's administrative offices on Miller Street.
Alcoa contests water-quality permit
RALEIGH -- Alcoa Power Generating Inc. is contesting a state water-quality permit, saying that the permit's conditions are too restrictive.
The N.C. Division of Water Quality issued the permit to Alcoa on May 7. Alcoa needs the permit to renew its federal license to operate four reservoirs along the Yadkin River.
An administrative-law judge had issued a temporary stay blocking the permit so that a hearing could be held. Dean Naujoks, the Yadkin Riverkeeper, and Stanly County appealed the decision to the N.C. Office of Administrative Hearings in Raleigh.
Alcoa filed a petition for a contested-case hearing with the same agency on Monday. In that petition, Alcoa says it opposes, among other things, conditions that require it to post a $240 million bond to cover the costs of water-quality improvement.
UNC, Old Salem team up on project
A new partnership between a university and a history museum will make research on early Southern furniture, culture and decorative arts available to a global audience over the Internet.
The Carolina Digital Libraries and Archives at UNC Chapel Hill will be working with the Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts at Old Salem over the next several years to complete the project. All of the material will be available free.
The Carolina Digital Libraries and Archives will scan about 200,000 index cards at MESDA that document nearly 80,000 artists and artisans who worked in the early South.
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