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| Blog and Media Roundup - Thursday, June 5, 2008; News Roundup | |
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| Kerri P. | Jun 5 2008, 10:08 AM Post #16 |
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http://www.wral.com/news/local/story/2995674/ Fired trooper should be reinstated, judge rules Posted: 57 minutes ago Updated: 11 minutes ago Raleigh, N.C. — An administrative court judge says a former Highway Patrol trooper who lost his job after being accused of abusing his K-9 should be reinstated with back pay and attorney's fees. (Agree with the judge's ruling?) Former Sgt. Charles Jones was fired Sept. 8 after another trooper turned over two 15-second video clips of Jones suspending his K-9 partner, Ricoh, from a railing and kicking the dog repeatedly to force it to release a chew toy. Jones sued the state agency to regain his job after, he said, he was fired only because staff in Gov. Mike Easley's office pressured the Highway Patrol to get rid of him. snip... Read Morrison's ruling. http://www.wral.com/asset/news/local/2008/06/05/2996093/Judge's_Decision.swf |
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| Kerri P. | Jun 5 2008, 11:38 AM Post #17 |
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http://www.wral.com/news/news_briefs/story/2996555/ Durham man wanted on robbery charges Posted: 57 minutes ago Durham, N.C. — Durham police investigators are trying to find James Preston Green III who was charged with a May 5 robbery at the GameStop on North Pointe Drive. Two men entered the store around 10:35 a.m. on May 5 and browsed around until the other customers left, police said. The men then pulled their hoods down to cover their faces, pulled out handguns and demanded money and video games from the employees. The men forced the employees to lie on the floor, police said. On May 21, investigators charged Antoine Alston, 22, of Fiske Street, and Green, 20, of Magnolia Drive, each with one count of robbery with a dangerous weapon and two counts of second-degree kidnapping. Green also stays in Chapel Hill and Creedmoor, police said. Anyone with information on Green’s whereabouts is asked to call Investigator J.R. Salmon at 560-4582, ext. 226 or Crime Stoppers at 683-1200. Crime Stoppers pays cash rewards for information leading to arrests in felony cases and callers never have to identify themselves. |
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| Kerri P. | Jun 5 2008, 01:20 PM Post #18 |
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http://www.wral.com/news/news_briefs/story/2997232/ Durham man arrested on fraud charges Posted: Today at 12:45 p.m. Durham, N.C. — Durham police have arrested one of two suspects wanted on fraud charges. Brian Lee Hanson Jr., 26, of Northcreek Drive, was arrested Thursday morning at a local hotel as a result of a Crime Stoppers tip. Hanson was wanted for two counts of identity theft and two counts of obtaining property by false pretense. He is charged with using stolen credit card information to pay for limousine services and hotels. The loss to date is estimated at approximately $4,000. The other suspect, Yashaundra Latiece Gee, remains at-large. snip... Edited by Kerri P., Jun 5 2008, 01:21 PM.
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| Quasimodo | Jun 5 2008, 04:09 PM Post #19 |
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http://media.www.dukechronicle.com/media/storage/paper884/news/2008/06/05/News/Duke-To.Accept.200.Students.From.Waitlist-3379049.shtml Duke to accept 200 students from waitlist By: Julia Love Issue date: 6/5/08 Last update: 6/5/08 at 10:15 AM EST (snip) Two hundred students who were once unsure of their statuses as future Blue Devils will join the Class of 2012 from the waitlist, Dean of Undergraduate Admissions Christoph Guttentag said. He attributed the increase in waitlist acceptances-about 40 more students than last year-to a spike in waitlist admissions at Harvard, Princeton and Yale. "We can see the effects of a couple of schools having admitted students off the waitlist," Guttentag said. "This is exactly what happens when schools like Harvard and Yale take people off their waitlists." In May, Harvard expected to take 150 to 175 students from its waitlist this year, Princeton planned to accept 90 and Yale was looking to offer admission to 45 applicants, the schools' deans of admissions told The New York Times. Additionally, the University of Pennsylvania accepted 90 applicants from its waitlist this year, exceeding last year's total by 35 students, said the university's Interim Dean of Admissions Eric Kaplan. "We're sort of in a wait-and-see mode at this point," he said. "Our class looks very good. We're holding steady right now, but there are external factors we can't control, like the waitlist admissions at other schools." An unusually large class of high school seniors, the elimination of early action programs at several of Duke's peer institutions-including Harvard, Princeton and the University of Virginia-and drastic changes to the financial aid landscape have made for one of the most unforeseeable years in admissions on record, Guttentag said. "This is probably the least predictable year that I've seen in admissions in the 26 years I've been working," he said. "I've never seen so many changes at one time that affect us fairly directly." (snip) Duke received a record-breaking number of applications this year, and Guttentag approximated there are 100 more students to whom he could easily offer admission. "This is a class that is at least as qualified as we've had in the past and may very well be more diverse than we've had in the past," he said. (snip) |
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