Courtlinks have been updated. Since I'm no longer in, or helping cover,Florida, I will probably not be keeping the rest up (although I amchecking for corrections). Try the public records directories at top ofthis page to find other records, especially county records.)
Criminal/Courts (This section updated 2/28/08)
Miscellaneous:
Business, Charities, Professions (This section updated 3/1/08)
Marriages, etc. (This section updated 3/1/08)
Courtlinks have been updated. Since I'm no longer in, or helping cover,Florida, I will probably not be keeping the rest up (although I amchecking for corrections). Try the public records directories at top ofthis page to find other records, especially county records.)
Criminal/Courts (This section updated 2/28/08)
Miscellaneous:
Business, Charities, Professions (This section updated 3/1/08)
Marriages, etc. (This section updated 3/1/08)
Don Lee Wade is charged with Concealment of Death after admitting to investigators that he was aware of his mother's death since March 2010 and did nothing about it. Police say that Wade continued to gather her mail and began cashing her social security checks and using her debit card.
Last Wednesday, the Burlington Housing Authority notified police of a death at a home on North Ireland Street. The body of 94-year-old Lucy Mae Hutchins Wade was found in a decomposed state.
The body was sent to Chapel Hill for an autopsy, where it was determined she died of natural causes six months earlier.Federal officials say a JBS Swift & Co. meatpacking plant should give Muslim employees prayer time and not retaliate against workers who ask to pray.
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission filed a lawsuit Monday on behalf of more than 80 Somali Muslims.
A message left at JBS Swift's U.S. headquarters in Greeley wasn't immediately returned.
FULL STORY.........warning...........if you are sensitive to animal abuse, don't go to this link. You may want to skip 4chan as well. If you to to 4chan, don't say you've not been warned.
According to Gawker,once users of 4chan's /b/ board got wind of the puppy abuser, they setout to find it and punish her. The video was posted to /b/ along withthe message "Find this dumb little bitch and throw her into a river" —and users now think they've found her Facebook profile and that of thedude who shot the video. /b/ is mounting a harassment campaignaccordingly — because clearly Internet-based vigilante justice meted outby noted assholes is the best way to eliminate cruelty to animals.
4chan's /b/ users made headlines earlier in the summer for bullying a child to tears, and though they appear to be turning their attentions to shaming animal abusers, this doesn't exactly make them saints. Frankly, if you're actually concerned about animal welfare,volunteer at your local shelter or something —
Duke University officials confirmed Friday that one of their star researchers padded his credentials, but they'll wait to decide his fate until determining whether scientific findings may also have been manipulated............well, perhaps he does have a future as a fluffer ...........
Dr. Anil Potti, a cancer genetics researcher whose work has reaped more than $1 million in grants, has been on paid administrative leave since July, amid allegations that he falsely claimed to be a prestigious Rhodes scholar.In addition, other scientists have challenged Potti's research, igniting a scandal that has tarnished Duke. Potti has had to publish significant corrections to his work and faces continuing charges that his findings were not only wrong, but may have been deliberately embellished.
FULL STORYA mother and her newborn baby are in intensive care after a fight between doctors in the delivery room delayed the birth.
Laura Salpietro, 30, had been rushed to hospital after her waters broke, but as she lay on a bed in agony, doctors argued over whether to deliver her first child naturally or by caesarean.
Amazingly, the row then became violent, with punches thrown while her horrified husband Matteo Molonia, 37, looked on, pleading for the medics to stop and help his wife.
Nightmare: An Italian mother and her baby are both in critical condition at this hospital, the Messina Polyclinic in Sicily, after an argument between doctors delayed an emergency Caesarean
Officials said gynaecologist Vincenzo Benedetto and maternity unit doctor Antonio De Vivo had both been suspended from the Polyclinic Hospital in Messina, on the Italian island of Sicily, while the matter was investigated.
Today I came across a piece that really shows the problem the left and left-center have governing versus campaigning.
The slice of the LGBT blogosphere that has been critical of this President has been chastised early and often by Obama defenders for expressing our disappointment, frustration — and yes, anger — at the inaction, slow-go and even no-go behavior regarding LGBT issues. We are all well aware that Barack Obama held our prized issues — DADT, ENDA, DOMA, etc. — in high regard and stressed their priority to him when he was on the campaign trail. We also know what has happened in the last two years.
STATESVILLE, NC (WBTV) - A man who was with about a dozen people who were looking for a legendary "ghost train" in Iredell County was hit by a locomotive and killed early Friday morning.
The incident happened on a train trestle at 2:45 a.m. near the 900 block of Buffalo Shoals Road.
Robin Chapman, a spokesperson for Norfolk-Southern Railroad, said the eastbound train consisted of three locomotives and no freight cars.
The train was rounding a curve and approaching a trestle over Boston Creek just prior to Buffalo Shoals Road when it struck a man on the trestle, Chapman said.
The woman who falsely accused DukeUniversity lacrosse players of rape has been taken back to jail,accused of violating a release agreement.
Multiple media outlets reported Thursday that Crystal GailMangum was taken into custody after court officials accused her ofviolating a visitation hours with her children.
Details of the duo’s bromance surfaced when the underworld kingpinwas arrested—bribery, murder conspiracy, cocaine trafficking, etc.—andsecretly recorded conversations revealed how Sanchez was San Pedro’swingman. For more than two years, the recordings revealed, Sanchezallowed the hoodlum to pay for lavish dinners and $2000 nightclub tabs.Sanchez traded favors with San
Pedro (pictured at left) and partied at his sprawling home, which was outfitted with bulletproof windows.
The resulting press criticism of Sanchez and his ethical lapses didnot please the TV personality, as he told Herald reporter Juan CarlosCoto:
“These pansy reporters who go around judging the peoplethat they write about have no business. I felt there were a lot ofreporters who hadn’t had enough life experience who wanted to know aboutit because they were getting a vicarious thrill from my experience.”
A pastor who has spent 37 years in the United States is facing deportation to Mexico after immigration authorities arrested him because of a conviction 15 years ago.
Hector Villaneuva, 40, has a valid green card, his own parish, a wife, four children, two foster children he's in the process of adopting and a home in Chatham County.
Family and friends say he was living the American dream until immigration agents arrested him last week.
Villanueva had recently applied for U.S. citizenship, but he was denied after immigration officials discovered his conviction in California for commercial robbery.
GRAHAM, N.C. — Authorities are investigating after an Orange County woman's body was left in a hearse for more than a week. Police found the body of 37-year-old Linda Walton last week while investigating the source of a foul odor in Graham.
The woman died earlier this month and her body was picked up by David B Lawson Mortuary, a licensed funeral director frequently used by police.
It quickly became evident that the situation in their lab was common throughout the world. Up to half of the cell lines that were supposed to originate from patients with this rare thyroid cancer were either colon or melanoma cancer.
So, with the cooperation of many researchers nationwide, the Mayo researchers set out to create a new set of laboratory ATC cells, derived from tumors donated by patients.
In the Aug. 25 online issue of the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism, the researchers report successful creation of four new ATC cell lines, each with a different set of molecular mutations driving this aggressive cancer. Survival for ATC patients is typically brief, three to four months on average, as illustrated by the speculated ATC diagnosis and death in 2005 of Chief Justice of the United States William Rehnquist.
The researchers are sharing the new ATC cells with researchers internationally who need them, says the study's co-principal author, John Copland, Ph.D., a cancer biologist at the Mayo Clinic campus at Jacksonville.

The decapitated bodies of four men were hung from abridge Sunday in this central Mexican city besieged by fighting between two drug lords.
A gang led by kingpin Hector Beltran Leyva took responsibility for the killings in a message left with the bodies, the attorney general's office of More los state said in a statement.
The beheaded and mutilated bodies were hung by their fee tearly Sunday from the bridge in Cuernavaca, a popular weekend getaway for Mexico City residents.
FULL STORYAn 84-year-old homeless man and his Rottweiler have set up camp on the property on Coburn Avenue in Skowhegan, a quiet residential street near downtown. A banner says, "Nature Park, Nature Trails for the Homeless People of Somerset County."
FULL STORY...........and elitist educators want us to "trust science".................right............right............
Dear faculty colleagues,
No dean wants to see a member of the faculty found responsible for scientific misconduct, for such misconduct strikes at the core of our academic values. Thus, it is with great sadness that I confirm that Professor Marc Hauser was found solely responsible, after a thorough investigation by a faculty investigating committee, for eight instances of scientific misconduct under FAS [Faculty of Arts and Sciences] standards. The investigation was governed by our long-standing policies on professional conduct and shaped by the regulations of federal funding agencies. After careful review of the investigating committee's confidential report and opportunities for Professor Hauser to respond, I accepted the committee's findings and immediately moved to fulfill our obligations to the funding agencies and scientific community and to impose appropriate sanctions.
Harvard, like every major research institution, takes a finding of scientific misconduct extremely seriously and imposes consequential sanctions on individuals found to have committed scientific misconduct. Rigid adherence to the scientific method and scrupulous attention to the integrity of research results are values we expect in every one of our faculty, students, and staff.
In brief, when allegations of scientific misconduct arise, the FAS Standing Committee on Professional Conduct (CPC) is charged with beginning a process of inquiry into the allegations. The inquiry phase is followed by an investigation phase that is conducted by an impartial committee of qualified, tenured faculty (the investigating committee), provided that the dean, advised by the CPC, believes the allegations warrant further investigation. The work of the investigating committee as well as its final report are considered confidential to protect both the individuals who made the allegations and those who assisted in the investigation. Our investigative process will not succeed if individuals do not have complete confidence that their identities can be protected throughout the process and after the findings are reported to the appropriate agencies. Furthermore, when the allegations concern research involving federal funding, funding agency regulations govern our processes during the investigation and our obligations after our investigation is complete. (For example, federal regulations impose an ongoing obligation to protect the identities of those who provided assistance to the investigation.) When the investigation phase is complete, the investigating committee produces a confidential report describing their activity and their findings. The response of the accused to this report and the report itself are considered by the dean, who then decides whether to accept the findings, and in the case of a finding of misconduct, determine the sanctions that are appropriate. This entire and extensive process was followed in the current case.
Since some of the research in the current case was supported by federal funds, the investigating committee's report and other supplemental material were submitted to the federal offices responsible for their own review, in accordance with federal regulations and FAS procedures. Our usual practice is not to publicly comment on such cases, one reason being to ensure the integrity of the government's review processes.
A key obligation in a scientific misconduct case is to correct any affected publications, and our confidentiality policies do not conflict with this obligation. In this case, after accepting the findings of the committee, I immediately moved to have the record corrected for those papers that were called into question by the investigation. The committee's report indicated that three publications needed to be corrected or retracted, and this is now a matter of public record. To date, the paper, "Rule learning by cotton-top tamarins," Cognition 86, B15-B22 (2002) has been retracted because the data produced in the published experiments did not support the published findings; and a correction was published to the paper, "Rhesus monkeys correctly read the goal-relevant gestures of a human agent," Proceedings of the Royal Society B 274, 1913-1918 (2007). The authors continue to work with the editors of the third publication, "The perception of rational, goal-directed action in nonhuman primates," Science 317, 1402-1405 (2007). As we reported to one of these editors, the investigating committee found problems with respect to the three publications mentioned previously, and five other studies that either did not result in publications or where the problems were corrected prior to publication. While different issues were detected for the studies reviewed, overall, the experiments reported were designed and conducted, but there were problems involving data acquisition, data analysis, data retention, and the reporting of research methodologies and results.
Beyond these responsibilities to the funding agencies and the scientific community, Harvard considers confidential the specific sanctions applied to anyone found responsible for scientific misconduct. However, to enlighten those unfamiliar with the available sanctions, options in findings of scientific misconduct include involuntary leave, the imposition of additional oversight on a faculty member's research lab, and appropriately severe restrictions on a faculty member's ability to apply for research grants, to admit graduate students, and to supervise undergraduate research. To ensure compliance with the imposed sanctions, those within Harvard with oversight of the affected activities are informed of the sanctions that fall within their administrative responsibilities.
As should be clear from this letter, I have a deeply rooted faith in our process and the shared values upon which it is founded. Nonetheless, it is healthy to review periodically our long-standing practices. Consequently, I will form a faculty committee this fall to reaffirm or recommend changes to the communication and confidentiality practices associated with the conclusion of cases involving allegations of professional misconduct. To be clear, I will ask the committee to consider our policies covering all professional misconduct cases and not comment solely on the current scientific misconduct case.
In summary, Harvard has completed its investigation of the several allegations in the current case and does not anticipate making any additional findings, statements, or corrections to the scientific record with respect to those allegations. This does not mean, however, that others outside Harvard have completed their reviews. In particular, Harvard continues to cooperate with all federal inquiries into this matter by the PHS Office of Research Integrity, the NSF Office of Inspector General and the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Massachusetts.
Respectfully yours,
Michael D. Smith
Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences.
A Tennessee middle school football coach said he got fired after he wrote a song that criticized President Obama.
Bryan Glover, an assistant coach at Grassland Middle School near Nashville, co-wrote the country music song, “When You’re Holding a Hammer, Everything Looks Like a Nail.”
It was co-written by a parent who has a child on the team. Glover, 26, said he emailed a copy of the song to friends, family members and player’s parents through his personal email account.
And that’s when all the trouble started for the self-described independent conservative.
“The coach called me and said parents were upset – that I was being politically incorrect and the song had racial overtones,” Glover told FOX News Radio. “An hour and a half later I was told I was being terminated.”
“I was informed that I was being let go because of the song,” he said, denying claims there were any racial overtones in the song.
Williamson County School Superintendent Mike Looney disputed Glover’s account and said his dismissal had nothing to do with the song.
“Absolutely not,” he told FOX News Radio. “That’s a false claim.”
Brad Pitt has waded into the Gulf oil spill controversy with an extraordinary veiled attack on BP.
The Hollywood actor said he would consider the death penalty for those to blame for the ruptured well that gushed millions of gallons of oil into the ocean.
He was speaking in a documentary due to be screened in the US tomorrow tonight.
Moore said he considers Pfc. Bradley Manning a courageous patriot for exposing what Moore called “war crimes.”
The controversial filmmaker said he will contribute to a legaldefense fund for the 22-year-old former intelligence analyst, who facesup to 52 years in prison.
Micheal Moores' biggest fan gives him a hand.......
RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C. - North Carolina’s unemployment rate fell below 10 percent for the first time since February 2009 in July, yet 35,000 fewer people were part of the state’s work force. So how is it that the jobless rate declined?
And what is the jobless rate if factors such as “discouraged workers” – the term used by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics to define people no longer looking for work - or are underemployed are counted? Also added to this group are what the BLS calls “marginally attached” workers – people who are neither working nor seeking work but hope to get a job and have worked within the past year.
As of June 30, that rate as 17.8 percent.
We should continue to avoid the phrase "ground zero mosque" or "mosque at ground zero" on all platforms. (We've very rarely used this wording, except in slugs, though we sometimes see other news sources using the term.) The site of the proposed Islamic center and mosque is not at ground zero, but two blocks away in a busy commercial area. We should continue to say it's "near" ground zero, or two blocks away.
We can refer to the project as a mosque, or as a proposed Islamic center that includes a mosque.
This weekend I had an unusual case. The urologist wanted to remove a crochet needle from a 23 year old female's bladder. Yes, a crochet needle, the type with the little hook on the end. It was bright green and easy to find. Got there by "accident".
Republican congressional candidate ReneeEllmers, fresh off an endorsement from Sarah Palin, threw a debatechallenge out to opponent U.S. Rep. Bob Etheridge.
TheFacebook endorsement from Palin on Wednesday appeared to energizeEllmers' campaign and led Etheridge, a Lillington Democrat, to say thatvoters should expect Ellmers would take orders from Palin.
Ellmers,a Dunn resident, came back Thursday with: "Congressman Etheridge hasbeen taking his instructions on job creation from Barack Obama and NancyPelosi.
Ann Coulter will headline the first annual “Homocon 2010,” an event sponsored by GOProud that “represents gay conservatives and their allies,” according to NYDailyNews.com. And for this, the conservative commentator gets dropped from WorldNetDaily’s upcoming “Taking America Back.”
Editor and CEO of WND, Joseph Farah, does not stand in line with Coulter’s compromises.
The ruling reverses a 2007 decision by afederal district judge that said the crosses communicate a secularmessage about deaths and were not a public endorsement of religion. It'sthe latest in a recent rash of mixed-bag rulings on the public use ofcrosses.
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