RALEIGH -- A fundraiser for U.S. Sen. Richard Burr at which former Bush White House adviser Karl Rove was the featured speaker raised $425,000 for Burr's re-election campaign, according to an organizer.
Jim Cain, a former U.S. ambassador to Denmark, said that about 275 people attended the fundraiser Thursday at a Raleigh restaurant.
Burr, a Republican from Winston-Salem, is running for a second term. At least three Democrats are running for the party's nomination -- Cal Cunningham, Kenneth Lewis and Elaine Marshall.
National Democrats jumped on the Rove appearance. The Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee said that Rove's visit showed that Burr was linked strongly to what it called the failed economic policies of former President Bush.
Pilot Mountain ranger promoted
RALEIGH -- Janet Pearson, a ranger at Pilot Mountain State Park, has been named the first superintendent of Carvers Creek State Park in Cumberland County, state parks officials said this week.
Pearson will be the chief of operations and administration at Carvers Creek. She will oversee training, law enforcement, visitor services, natural-resource protection and environmental education.
A native of Pilot Mountain, Pearson graduated in 2000 from Western Carolina University with a bachelor's degree in parks and recreation management.
She worked in several jobs in the parks system and served as an interpreter for the Horne Creek Living Historical Farm. She was hired as a ranger at Pilot Mountain in 2000.
New N.C. poet laureate selected
RALEIGH -- A Tryon poet whose poems read like miniature short stories has been named North Carolina's new poet laureate.
Gov. Bev Perdue's office said yesterday that Cathy Smith Bowers will be installed Feb. 10.
Smith Bowers, a South Carolina native, teaches at UNC Asheville and Queens University in Charlotte. She received bachelor's and master's degrees in English from Winthrop University in Rock Hill, S.C.
Arguments set in life-sentence case
RALEIGH -- The N.C. Supreme Court will hear arguments next month about two convicted murderers who argue that the life sentences they received in the 1970s are now complete.
The court has scheduled arguments in the cases of Alford Jones and Faye Brown for Feb. 16. A lower-court judge ruled in December that both Jones and Brown should be immediately set free, and state lawyers have appealed.
Dozens of convicts sentenced to life between 1974 and 1978 received terms defined as no more than 80 years long. Jones and Brown contend that sentence-reduction credits mean they have completed their time behind bars.
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