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SHELBY, N.C. — Shelby police are looking for a man they say tried to shoot another man to death.

Police have issued arrest warrants for Jacques Ross, 27. Investigators say he shot Ronald Ross on Sunday several times at a house on West Elm Street.

Ronald Ross is expected to recover.

Anyone with information about the whereabouts of Jacques Ross is asked to call Shelby Crime Stoppers at (704) 481-8477.

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CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Police have arrested a man they say sexually assaulted a woman in a south Charlotte park.

Authorities say Kelvin Jones, 41, approached the woman around 11:30 a.m. Wednesday as she was sitting on a bench alone reading a book in a relatively secluded part of Park Road Park. They say he forced the woman behind a building, where he sexually assaulted her and robbed her at knifepoint.

Jones then attempted to take the woman to a second location, police said. The woman broke free, screamed and ran, attracting the attention of two men in the park. Police said they followed the man while they called 911, and they didn’t allow the 6-foot-2-inch tall, 260-pound suspect back until his vehicle as they waited for officers to arrive.

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Raleigh — Durham police on Wednesday arrested a Raleigh elementary school intern training to become an assistant principal.

Desitini Artis, 27, of  5907 Osprey Cove Drive, was arrested at her home in Raleigh on charges of attempted breaking and entering, breaking and entering, damage to real property, damage to personal property, possession of burglary tools and larceny.

The circumstances of the arrest were not immediately clear, but Wake County Public School System spokesman Michael Evans said the charges had nothing to do with her position at the Durant Road Elementary School.

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COLUMBUS COUNTY –  The jury in the Ramel Troy trial has found Troy guilty of first-degree murder.

Ramel Troy was charged with first-degree murder for the 2002 death of 19-year-old Chase Powell. Prosecutors say Troy and two other men robbed Powell and beat him up. One of the men shot Powell after he begged for his life. Powell’s body was found three weeks after he disappeared.

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Durham, NC — Civil attorneys for three former Duke lacrosse players are meeting today with attorneys for the city of Durham.

David Evans, Reade Seligmann and Collin Finnerty are considering a federal lawsuit against the city for violating their civil rights.

The players faced rape and kinapping charges after a woman said they attacked her at a party in march 2006. All the charges were eventually dropped.

There’s a special panel looking into how the police handled the case, but the committee’s work is on hold pending the civil suit.

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(09/05/07 — WENDELL) - Wendell Police are investigating a shocking home invasion and attempted rape of an elderly woman.

Early Tuesday morning police were called to a home to find the residence had been broken into and a 92-year-old woman and 78-year-old woman had both been assaulted. Police soon determined the suspect also attempted to rape one of the women.

The suspect, Bobby Frazier, was on the scene when police arrived and was arrested. Frazier, 60, has been charged with one count of attempted second-degree rape, kidnapping and felonious breaking an entering along with two counts of assault on a female.

During his first appearance Wednesday, a Wake County judge raised Frazier’s bond from $105,000 to $1 million. A prosecutor told the judge Frazier’s violent criminal history meant his bond should be ten times the $100,000 originally set in his case.

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(09/05/07 — ORANGE COUNTY) - An Orange County state trooper has resigned after allegations of serious misconduct.

The N.C. Highway Patrol says Trooper Michael Steele stepped down Wednesday in lieu of being fired. The circumstance surrounding the situation are not being revealed.

Officials said they learned of an incident last week. The SBI is investigating.

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(09/05/07 — DURHAM) - Durham city attorneys are meeting today with civil attorneys representing the three former defendants in the Duke Lacrosse case. It’s the first time the two sides will meet.

Durham attorney Alex Charns has experience suing the city and tells Eyewitness News, the plaintiff’s lawyers play to win.

“Talking to the lawyers of the players is certainly better than refusing to talk, but they’re in a world of trouble because of their own conduct,” Charns said.

He’s won prior lawsuits filed against Durham’s police department. Charns says the decision for the city to meet with the lawyers representing the three men who were accused of sexual assault during an off-campus party in March 2006 is a good first step.

“Hopefully they’ll have a good discussion and the city of Durham will start to make progress instead of going backwards by denying wrongdoing,” he said.

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A Fayetteville man accused of kidnapping his girlfriend’s daughter from her school in May has been arrested.

Richard Lee Carmichael, 23, of the 2500 block of Slater Avenue, is charged with first-degree kidnapping and second-degree trespassing. Details of his arrest were immediately available Tuesday night.

On May 10, Carmichael picked up the 6-year-old at Ferguson-Easley Elementary School on Seabrook Road around 2:20 p.m., the Cumberland County Sheriff’s Office has said. A short while later, the girl’s mother showed up at the school and learned that her daughter was missing.

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