Record #:

1235

Author(s):

Ruley, Melinda

Abstract:

Ruley argues that Ernest King's conviction on murder charges was based on his reputation rather than the evidence. King is a reputed drug lord from New York City who allegedly was attempting to take over the Durham drug trade.

Source:

Independent Weekly (NoCar Oversize AP 2 .I57 [volumes 13 - 23 on microfilm]), Vol. 11 Issue 39, Sept 1993, p7-8, por Periodical Website

Subject(s):

King, Ernest; Murder--Durham

Record #:

1308

Author(s):

Ruley, Melinda

Abstract:

Local governments in Chapel Hill and Durham are debating proposed gun-control ordinances that would prohibit the display and discharge of guns within city limits.

Source:

Independent Weekly (NoCar Oversize AP 2 .I57 [volumes 13 - 23 on microfilm]), Vol. 11 Issue 49, Dec 1993, p15-18, il, por Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Firearms--Laws and legislation--Chapel Hill; Firearms--Laws and legislation--Durham

Record #:

1310

Author(s):

Ruley, Melinda

Abstract:

Michael Seagroves, a Durham resident who shot and killed a teenager who broke into his garage, was the beneficiary of a mistrial when the jury deadlocked. The state is expected to drop the charges against Seagroves rather than bring him to trial again.

Source:

Independent Weekly (NoCar Oversize AP 2 .I57 [volumes 13 - 23 on microfilm]), Vol. 11 Issue 51, Dec 1993, p8-11, por Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Self-defense (Law)--Durham; North Carolina v. Michael Seagroves

Record #:

1323

Author(s):

Ruley, Melinda

Abstract:

Across North Carolina, anxiety about crime has put the state's prison cap, created in the late 1980s to limit prison populations, under fire.

Source:

Independent Weekly (NoCar Oversize AP 2 .I57 [volumes 13 - 23 on microfilm]), Vol. 11 Issue 46, Nov 1993, p13-15, por Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Crime; Prisons--Overcrowding--Laws and legislation

Record #:

1394

Author(s):

Ruley, Melinda

Abstract:

Steve Lan'ge has been an inmate at the Johnston County Correctional Facility for the past nineteen years. Sentenced before the Fair Sentencing Act was instituted, Lan'ge has seen other inmates convicted of similar crimes come and go.

Source:

Independent Weekly (NoCar Oversize AP 2 .I57 [volumes 13 - 23 on microfilm]), Vol. 12 Issue 4, Jan 1994, p7-11, por Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Prison sentences; Lan'ge, Steve; Prisoners--Johnston County

Record #:

1431

Author(s):

Ruley, Melinda

Abstract:

Eight Wake County restaurant owners have filed a civil lawsuit against the Wake County Board of Health, seeking to strike down recently passed smoking regulations aimed at making all Wake County restaurants smoke free by 1996.

Source:

Independent Weekly (NoCar Oversize AP 2 .I57 [volumes 13 - 23 on microfilm]), Vol. 12 Issue 8, Feb 1994, p10-13, il, por Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Smoking--Laws and legislation--Wake County

Record #:

1449

Author(s):

Ruley, Melinda

Abstract:

The current high profile of crime may have been responsible for the termination of 69 previously approved MAPP (Mutual Agreement Parole Program) \"contracts\" between individual inmates and the N.C. Parole Commission.

Source:

Independent Weekly (NoCar Oversize AP 2 .I57 [volumes 13 - 23 on microfilm]), Vol. 12 Issue 9, Mar 1994, p3, il, map Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Parole; MAPP (Mutual Agreement Parole Program)

Record #:

1722

Author(s):

Ruley, Melinda

Abstract:

Crab picking is a way of life for some women in Eastern North Carolina. Ruley uses this first in a three-part series to introduce women for whom picking crabs has provided a lifetime of employment and a sense of pride.

Source:

Independent Weekly (NoCar Oversize AP 2 .I57 [volumes 13 - 23 on microfilm]), Vol. 12 Issue 26, June 1994, p9-13, il, por Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Women--Employment; Crab meat

Record #:

1755

Author(s):

Ruley, Melinda

Abstract:

This second installment in a three-part series continues an examination of crab-picking and the crab industry as it exists in Eastern North Carolina. Ruley places special emphasis on the folk aspects of the industry.

Source:

Independent Weekly (NoCar Oversize AP 2 .I57 [volumes 13 - 23 on microfilm]), Vol. 12 Issue 27, July 1994, p10-13, il Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Crabs; Crab meat

Record #:

1769

Author(s):

Ruley, Melinda

Abstract:

Ruley presents the final article in her series chronicling the lives and the culture of those who work in the crab houses of eastern North Carolina.

Source:

Independent Weekly (NoCar Oversize AP 2 .I57 [volumes 13 - 23 on microfilm]), Vol. 12 Issue 28, July 1994, p8-11, il Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Crabs; Crab meat

Record #:

1906

Author(s):

Ruley, Melinda

Abstract:

The Year of the Coast Conference marked the 20th anniversary of North Carolina's Coastal Area Management Act (CAMA). Ruley discusses land use planning on Topsail Island to assess CAMA's successes and failures.

Source:

Independent Weekly (NoCar Oversize AP 2 .I57 [volumes 13 - 23 on microfilm]), Vol. 12 Issue 37, Sept 1994, p11-13, il Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Cities and towns--Growth; Coastal Area Management Act (CAMA); Land use--Planning; Coastal zone management; Topsail Island; Growth--Urbanization

Record #:

1977

Author(s):

Ruley, Melinda

Abstract:

In March of 1994, a tornado struck the Haw River town of Saxapahaw, destroying its 150 year old cotton mill and disrupting a community that had worked for the mill for generations.

Source:

Independent Weekly (NoCar Oversize AP 2 .I57 [volumes 13 - 23 on microfilm]), Vol. 12 Issue 43, Oct 1994, p11-13, il Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Saxapahaw; Cotton manufacture--Saxapahaw

Record #:

2034

Author(s):

Ruley, Melinda

Abstract:

\"Scooping booty,\" meaning in caving language to be the first in unexplored territory, was the lure that drew Chapel Hill caver Barbara am Ende to one of the world's deepest and most dangerous cave systems - Mexico's Sistema Huaulte.

Source:

Independent Weekly (NoCar Oversize AP 2 .I57 [volumes 13 - 23 on microfilm]), Vol. 12 Issue 46, Nov 1994, p12-13, 15, il Periodical Website

Subject(s):

AmEnde, Barbara, 1955-; Caves--Mexico; Spelunkers

Record #:

2051

Author(s):

Ruley, Melinda

Abstract:

Although Mary McClintock Fulkerson has Duke Divinity School support for her quest for tenure, controversy over her radical teachings is spotlighting an undercurrent of discontent among women students and women professors within the conservative school.

Source:

Independent Weekly (NoCar Oversize AP 2 .I57 [volumes 13 - 23 on microfilm]), Vol. 12 Issue 50, Dec 1994, p10-12, 13-15, il Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Fulkerson, Mary McClintock; Sexism in theological seminaries--Durham; Duke University. Divinity School

Record #:

2195

Author(s):

Ruley, Melinda

Abstract:

The North Carolina Resource Center, funded by state and federal monies, assists lawyers defending indigent clients in capital cases. Detractors in the General Assembly, unhappy with some aspects of the center, are seeking to eliminate funding.

Source:

Independent Weekly (NoCar Oversize AP 2 .I57 [volumes 13 - 23 on microfilm]), Vol. 13 Issue 10, Mar 1995, p10-13, il Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Defense (Criminal procedure); North Carolina Resource Center; Public defenders; Legal aid