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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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\"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.
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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.
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The issue is whether Durham High School, troubled by middle-class black and white flight, suffering the legacy of a previously corrupt city school system, and concerned about a black student body that is overwhelmingly poor, should be closed.
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Durham's new police chief, Jackie McNeil, intends to change the city's reputation for crime and his department's poor public image.
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Some town officials and residents in Hillsborough are vehemently opposed to PHE Inc.'s plans to move to town in the near future. PHE Inc. is a mail-order company specializing in erotic merchandise.
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North Carolina citizens, lawmakers, judges and administrators are struggling with prison-reform proposals. The state is in dire need of some type of remedy for prison overcrowding.
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Ann Shachtman opened her first Stereo Sound hi-fi store in Chapel Hill in 1974. Today the savvy businesswoman owns six stores in North Carolina and Tennessee, and is recognized as a major industry player both nationally and internationally.