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With big game over, time for a pass at mail
Let's have a quick show of hands. Who else came to work Monday feeling like we just came off a national gastronomic holiday? Those 2.5 billion chicken wings didn't eat themselves.
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Sexton: Alert neighbor nails burglary suspect
To state the obvious — not to mention ripping off and paraphrasing one of Hollywood's most memorable lines — Curtis Foster was mad as heck when he saw an intruder leaving a neighbor's house, and he wasn't going to take it anymore.
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Sexton: This time, the school bullies were adults
The first run-through listening to the verbal assault directed at a 15-year-old high-school student was brutal.
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Part-time to full-time brings benefits
The true measure of just how bad the economy is can be found in Greg Carlyle's cellphone.
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Sexton: Would-be candidates' trial balloons clog sky
The email alerts bearing the news that Gov. Bev Perdue couldn't bear the prospect of seeking re-election had barely faded from computer screens and phone apps before candidates starting filling the trial balloons.
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Killer's taunts include a truth
Even before a letter from convicted murderer Danny Robbie Hembree Jr. arrived at the offices of the Gaston Gazette, folks in Gastonia — particularly those in law enforcement — knew the 50-year-old wasn't a criminal mastermind.
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Good sense of not rushing to judgment
Three 6-inch binders sit in the office of District Attorney Jim O'Neill. An angelic photo of a 6-year-old boy peers out from the covers and spines of two of those books.
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Hit-and-run shows good, bad in people
Colleen Brehm remembers being blinded by headlights and raising her arm to shield her eyes from the glare, but not much else. And that's probably for the best.
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Sexton: Raven's road test time is here
Today is the day the girl has been waiting for with all the combined anticipation of Christmas, her Sweet 16 and her first high-school dance all rolled into one.
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Sexton: Folwell's campaign bears watching
It shouldn't come as any huge surprise to anyone who's been paying attention that state Rep. Dale Folwell, R-Forsyth, is planning to run for a statewide office this year.
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Sexton: Defendant can't seem to stay out of jail
It was hard not to notice that something extraordinary was about to happen in first-appearances court.
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Is cost more important than morality in eugenics reimbursement?
The headlines in North Carolina newspapers were dramatic Wednesday morning. The news was so big that some national television and radio stations ran the reports, too.
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Man's car shot during New Year's Eve revels
B.J. Webb is 82, retired and in no way one of those "Hey-Kid-Get-Off-My-Grass" fuddy-duddies.
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Susan Whiteheart's Thanksgiving miracle
The old tobacco barn looks like hundreds of others that dot the landscape across Northwest North Carolina. Years of rain, sun and wind have rusted and dinged its tin roof; the thick, wood beams and planks that make up its walls have rotted.
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Sexton: How to do the greatest good can prove elusive
It seemed like a simple enough concept the first time we heard it while learning about democracy, government and ethics in high school.
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Sexton: Debate over cigarette labels goes on
Damien Campbell wanted to get back indoors quickly Sunday. The afternoon was chilly, a front had brought wind and rain to Winston-Salem and so he didn't want to dawdle.
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Some rooming houses may be technically illegal
Even though he lives just a few dozen yards off Peters Creek Parkway and Business 40 — not to mention right behind a strip club that does a brisk business into the wee early morning hours — Jesse Williams has no trouble sleeping through the night.
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Sexton: School system settles suit over sex allegation against Parkland teacher
An unseemly tale of sexual misconduct by a former Parkland High School teacher — and school officials' failure to report an earlier allegation against him — closed quietly last week when a lawsuit against the Winston-Salem/Forsyth County Schools was settled.
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Sense of duty binds VFW honor guard
The U.S. Postal Service has got nothing on Cliff Harris and the boys from the Veterans of Foreign Wars District 11 honor guard.
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Sparta, pop. 1,770, shows its oversized heart
Some fill the marquees and large, portable message boards. Others are hand-lettered and taped to the corners of windows in mom-and-pop stores.
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Winston-Salem City Council considers changing free-speech ordinance
With no public notice and no public input, the Winston-Salem City Council on Monday night considered temporarily changing the city ordinance governing free speech and public assembly to prohibit such activities on City Hall grounds.
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Foxx aide's court case merits close look
If not for an evening of apparent heavy drinking and one poor decision, hardly anybody in these parts — save a handful of hard-core political animals — would know the name Todd Poole.
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'Justice is being done,' mother says
Even for a building where visitors have to pass through a metal detector to get in, security appeared abnormally high Tuesday morning at the Forsyth County Hall of Justice.
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Sexton: 13-year-old candidate for president sets up his own political party
Spam filters can only catch so much. Offers to split proceeds from overseas divorces, letters from special-interest groups and story pitches blow across the computer screen at the speed of a flying megabyte.
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A sad case study of the Racial Justice Act
As odd as it sounds — especially when you consider the source — Bill Magness wasn't surprised that the man who shot him, killed his wife and fatally beat another man would try to pervert a law that nominally intended to remove race as a factor in death-penalty cases.
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