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Turner caught in N. Carolina (Fort Bend Herald)
The extradition process begins now for a local double-slaying suspect apprehended Friday in North Carolina. Albert James Turner, wanted in connection for the two slayings of a Rosenberg woman and her daughter in late December, was captured in Concord, N.C., Friday afternoon after a viewer of the “Live With Regis and Kelly” show called police after seeing Turner profiled on the show Friday ...Legislation to block Navy airfield is grounded (The Petersburg Progress-Index) RICHMOND - Legislation that could have stopped the U.S. Navy from locating an outlying landing field in the Tidewater area, including a proposed airfield bordering Prince George County, has been refused permission for takeoff this year. But landing field
Lady Cougars fall in Final Four, 61-35 (Martinsville Bulletin) RICHMOND — Millbrook High School’s girls basketball team took control of Tuesday’s state semifinal from the opening tip and never gave it back.
USA TODAY's editorial board (USA Today) USA TODAY's editorial board, which forms the opinions expressed in USA TODAY's editorials, is the staff of the newspaper's opinion section.
When the textile mill goes, so does a way of life (USA Today) In textile towns across the Southeast, thousands of workers are starting over again, sometimes painfully.
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When the textile mill goes, so does a way of life (USA Today) Mount Airy, N.C., has lost thousands of textile jobs sincd 1999, and the U.S. has lost hundreds of thousands. Those jobs won't be coming back. That has changed life in the town that was the model for The Andy Griffith Show's Mayberry.
Former Franklin attorney now in Williamsburg must serve 18 months in jail for embezzlement (Daily Press) A 79-year-old former Franklin attorney will spend 18 months behind bars for embezzling $4.2 million from a former client's estate between 2002 and 2005, said Southampton County Commonwealth's Attorney Eric A. Cooke.
3-10 Sports Scoreboard (Minot Daily News) Pro Baseball Major League Baseball Spring Training Glance AMERICAN LEAGUE W L Pct Cleveland 4 0 1.000 Tampa Bay 6 1 .857 Toronto 5 1 .833 Boston 5 2 .714 Kansas City 3 2 .600 Detroit 4 3 .571 Minnesota 4 3 .571 Los Angeles 2 2 .500 Seattle 3 4 .429 Chicago 2 3 .400 Oakland 2 3 .400 New York 3 5 .375 Texas 1 3 .250 Baltimore 1 6 .143 NATIONAL LEAGUE W L Pct San Francisco 6 1 .857 Colorado 6 2 ...
Baseball, college basketball, NBA (The Toledo Blade) COLLEGE BASKETBALL Men AP Top 25 Record Pts Pvs 1. Kansas (63) 29-2 1,623 2 2. Kentucky (2) 29-2 1,553 3 3. Syracuse 28-3 1,500 1 4. Duke 26-5 1,348 4 5. Ohio St. 24-7 1,344 6 6. Purdue 26-4 1,252 7 7. West Virginia 24-6 1,231 10 8. New Mexico 28-3 1,188 8 9. Kansas St. 24-6 1,063 5 10. Villanova 24-6 1,016 9 11. Michigan St. 24-7 1,015 11 12. Butler 27-4 796 12 13. Wisconsin 23-7 710 15 14. BYU ...