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RALEIGH — North Carolina’s community college system said Tuesday it will no longer admit illegal immigrants into degree programs, following the advice of the state Attorney General’s Office. 

Last year, the system said it would enroll illegal immigrants who are 18 years old and high school graduates at all of its 58 campuses. While the change was supported by Gov. Mike Easley, it provoked heavy criticism - especially from the leading candidates running to replace the outgoing governor.

 The system later asked North Carolina Attorney General Roy Cooper for guidance on whether the admissions policy was legal under federal law.

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RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — A warrant filed in Wake County shows that an investigator looking into an allegation of loan fraud against a state representative searched a Durham nonprofit’s financial records.

State Bureau of Investigation Agent Rufus Williams searched the North Carolina Minority Support Center. He searched for financial records and other documents under the control of Representative Thomas Wright and a foundation that the Democrat from New Hanover County helped create.

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Officers arrested a man in connection with a common law robbery and assault incident that occurred in May.

After several months of investigation, Greenville Police Department detectives served an arrest warrant Friday for Mark Eldridge Joyner, 36, of 105 Toby Circle, Apt. 5.

Joyner was charged with common law robbery and assault for the May 14 incident in the parking lot of the BB&T bank, 543 S. Evans St, according to a police news release.

Detectives believe Joyner approached the victim, a 29-year-old female employee of the nearby McDonald’s restaurant, before she entered the bank with a deposit bag and punched her in the face.

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 [Ed. note - Read the comments on this story, seems this guy is also a murderer.]

Jacksonville police are looking for a suspect in a shooting on Maypatch Road at around 3 a.m. this morning.

A Jacksonville man, who asked not to be identified, was shot in the left elbow by an unknown gunman while sitting in his car in front of Tarheel Taxi, said police Capt. Tim Akers.

“(The driver) was talking on his cell phone when he saw a black male wearing a dark hoodie walking up to his car with a semi-automatic handgun,” Akers said. “(The driver) drove off, but the suspect shot him in the arm.”

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The Fort Sill National Bank on Yadkin Road was robbed at gunpoint about 6:30 p.m. Thursday.

Three armed men entered the bank at 6243 Yadkin Road and displayed their handguns, according to Jamie Smith, spokeswoman for the Fayetteville Police Department.

The robbers left on foot with an undisclosed amount of cash, she said.

Witnesses described the robbers as three black men between the ages of 18 and 25.

Anyone with information is asked to contact detectives at 433-1856 or Crime Stoppers at 483-8477.

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DUNN — The search continues for Joaquin Rangel Ramirez.

The only sign of the 31-year-old accused of shooting his estranged wife in a hospital parking lot here Saturday night is the 2002 Cadillac Escalade he was driving.

It was found Tuesday at the home of his brother on Rod Street in Fayetteville. The area is off Wilmington Highway near East Mountain Drive.

The vehicle was towed back to Dunn and searched, Police Chief B.P. Jones said.

“We did find some spent cartridges in the vehicle,” Jones said. “That pretty well confirms the shooting took place from the vehicle.”

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Charlotte, NC — Someone put two nooses on the UNC Charlotte campus this week.

According to the university, an employee found two ropes tied in noose knots in a bucket in a campus storage area.

The Chancellor says the school is investigating. He also stresses the UNC Charlotte’s zero-tolerance policy for racial discrimination.

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Students who are black, poor or suffer from disabilities are less likely to succeed on standardized tests, state data shows.

At the district level, all five area school districts failed to make Adequate Yearly Progress during the 2006-07 school year. A federal accountability measure, AYP measures student performance on math and reading tests among various socioeconomic subgroups.

In order for a school or a district to make AYP, students in every subgroup must reach a target goal. For example, about 77 percent of students in each subgroup needed to show proficiency on end-of-grade reading tests in order to make AYP.

While several districts reached more than 85 percent of their targets, no local district had every subgroup make AYP. The subgroups that most frequently missed the mark were black students, economically disadvantaged students and students with disabilities.

In the Camden County Schools, for example, state data shows that the school district missed AYP because black students and students with disabilities in grades 3-8 didn’t show proficiency on end-of-grade math tests.

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HARNETT COUNTY — The Dunn Police Department is trying to locate 34 year old Joaquin Ramirex.

Officials tell us he shot a woman, the mother of two children who he abducted and then fled the scene.

The children have been found but the hunt is still on for their father wanted for attempted murder.

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(11/09/07 — DURHAM) - Police arrested a man they believe robbed and assaulted a Duke University graduate student.

David Hill was wanted on multiple charges, including assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill, inflicting serious injury and robbery.

Police arrested him Friday afternoon in Durham at the Howard Johnson Hotel on Hillside Road.

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(11/09/07 — FAYETTEVILLE) - Fayetteville Police detectives are asking for the public’s help to identify a man who brutally beat a convenience store clerk at the Hess-Wilco Station on Raeford Road Friday morning.

Officials say the attack happened sometime between 4:30 a.m. and 5 a.m. at the store in the 3700-blok of Raeford Road. Officials say the suspect, caught on surveillance video, attacked the clerk and continued to assault the woman after she lost consciousness.

The man went on to take cigarettes and money from the store before getting away.

The suspect is approximately 6′ feet tall and 180 pounds.

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A noose was found at a top university in our state.
    
Campus officials say a noose made of toilet paper was found yesterday inside a bathroom at North Carolina State University.
    
Someone found it in a maintenance building that’s usually used only by employees who have keys.

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Disagreement over whether a Civil War ancestor should lie beneath a Union or a Confederate headstone has led to the arrest of a Gaston County jailer, charged with desecrating the grave of the veteran.

A warrant was served Oct. 15 on Richard Hill, a detention officer with the Gaston County Sheriff’s Department, Gaston County Chief Deputy Tim Farris said Monday.

The warrant was issued in Madison County, where the grave lies. It was taken out by Sheila Grindstaff of Mars Hill, a great-great granddaughter of the soldier.

According to the warrant, Hill, apparently a sixth-generation descendant, “tore down and removed a tombstone on the grave” of Stephen S. Shook, who is buried in a family cemetery behind Upper Laurel Baptist Church near Mars Hill, “then replaced the stone with a Confederate stone.”

According to the warrant, Shook was “a Union soldier who died on June 10, 1902.”

But before that he was a Confederate, the family agrees.

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(10/23/07 — LUMBERTON) - A Lumberton City Council member is locked up in Kentucky, charged with rape.

John Cantey, Jr. is being held in Louisville. He’s the manager of a rap group and was in a town near Louisville for a concert.

The Jefferson Town Police chief says an 19-year-old woman went to Cantey’s hotel room after a concert Friday night.

She later told police she has been raped. Cantey is scheduled to be in court November 1st.

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