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