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  • Victims Marines failed to safeguard water supply

    CAMP LEJEUNE, N.C. -; A simple test could have alerted officials that the drinking water at Camp Lejeune was contaminated, long before authorities determined that as many as a million Marines and their families were exposed to a witch's brew of cancer-causing ...

  • After nearly 30 years Camp Lejeune coming clean

    A simple test could have alerted officials that the drinking water at Camp Lejeune was contaminated, long before authorities determined that as many as a million Marines and their families were exposed to a witch's brew of cancer-causing ...

  • Marine daughter seeks dignity for `Devil Dog pups

    Federal health officials have determined that water contamination at Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune exceeded safe levels as far back as August 1953, four years earlier than previous ...

  • Police Durham NH ‘Good Samaritan’ Was Drunk Ran Over Pedestrian

    DURHAM, N.H. (AP) -- New Hampshire police say a motorist who presented herself as a good Samaritan who drove an injured pedestrian to the hospital is the same person who caused the injuries. Durham police say 38-year-old Michelle Blain of Barrington drove an injured University of New Hampshire student to a hospital Thursday night and explained that she’d happened upon the injured ...

  • Marine who dumped toxins felt illness was payback

    Camp Lejeune in the mid-1970s, the Massachusetts man figured he'd dumped hundreds of gallons of toxic solvents onto the ground. It would be decades before he realized that he had unknowingly contributed to the worst drinking water contamination in the country's history -- and, perhaps, to his own premature death. "It's just a terrible thing," the 58-year-old veteran ...


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Nathaniel Hawthorne could have been thinking about Bob Crane when he wrote in The Scarlet Letter, No man for any considerable period can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true. Since he was brutally murdered by having his head smashed in with a camera tripod in a Scottsdale, Arizona, apartment in 1978, Bob Crane ... ...

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  • Charlotte Bobcats moving to bring back the Hornets name

    The Charlotte Bobcats are moving to bring the Hornets name back to the local NBA team, CBS Sports reports. Looks like Hugo the Hornet might be making a Queen City homecoming after all. A report from CBS Sports says the Charlotte Bobcats have started the process to change the name of the local NBA team back to the Charlotte Hornets. No timetable was provided for when the change could be ...

  • BCBS influence waning with NC lawmakers

    Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina is used to having considerable clout in the legislature. Although the state’s largest health insurer hasn’t always gotten its way, for years it has negotiated behind the scenes to mold bills more to the company’s liking. All that’s changed. Blue Cross has seen bills fly out of committee with its wishes ignored repeatedly this ...

  • Change keeps this Classic fresh

    (L-R) Press operator Andy Neura and Ed Stone, head of Enterprise Strategy and Implementation of Classic Graphics discuss Classic's Digital Technology on Monday, May 13, 2013. Jeff Siner - ...

  • Male U.S. burglars steal to get money women steal for drugs

    When selecting a target, most burglars said they considered the close proximity of other people including: traffic, people in the house or business and police officers; the lack of escape routes; and signs of increased security -- including alarm signs, alarms, dogs inside and outdoor cameras or other surveillance equipment. (UPI Photo/Ezio ...

  • UNC claims ACC Regular Season Championship

    Chapel Hill, N.C. - A six-run eighth inning propelled No. 2 North Carolina (47-7, 21-6 ACC) to its first ACC Regular Season Championship since 1990 Friday night as the Tar Heels downed No. 7 Virginia (44-9, 21-8 ACC), 8-5.Trailing 5-2 entering the bottom of the eighth inning the Tar Heels were facing an uphill battle as Virginia entered the contest 37-0 when leading after seven innings and had ...

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