| July 5, 2008 | -
Bozo the Clown and Jesse Helms died, and the new waxwork Hitler at the Berlin Madame Tussauds museum was beheaded.
| Source 1:
CNN.com
Source 2:
BBCNews.com
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BBCnews.com
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| May 28, 2007 | -
Duke University lost the the men's NCAA lacrosse championship.
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AP via local6.com
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| April 12, 2007 | -
North Carolina's Attorney General dropped all charges against the three former Duke lacrosse players accused of raping an African-American stripper at a party, calling the athletes innocent victims of an overzealous attorney.
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News 14 Carolina
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| April 6, 2007 | - The North Carolina Senate expressed “profound contrition” for the state's slave history.
| Source:
Washington Post
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| February 23, 2007 | - At an ethanol-enzyme production plant in North Carolina,
President Bush slipped into a white lab coat and safety glasses, hoisted a beaker of clear ethanol, and said that he “quit drinking in '86.”
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Washington Post
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| February 8, 2007 | - Nearly invisible meteors may have been detected in the skies above Winston-Salem, North Carolina.
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wxii12.com
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| November 28, 2006 | - A North Carolina judge ruled that Guy T. LeGrande, a convicted murderer who wore a Superman costume to his trial, might be too crazy to execute.
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New York Times
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| November 8, 2006 | - The principal of a high school in North Carolina apologized after an excerpt of a speech by Joseph Goebbels was played over the PA system during a soccer game.
| Source:
CNN
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| October 6, 2006 | - An explosion at a chemical plant near Apex, North Carolina, forced as many as 17,000 people to flee their homes.
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BBC News
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| September 2, 2006 | - A vigilante mob in North Carolina beat and killed the wrong man.
| Source:
AP via CNN
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| July 5, 2006 | - “I'm going to make you this promise,” President George W. Bush
told a crowd of soldiers in Fort Bragg, North Carolina, “I'm not going to allow the sacrifice of 2,527 troops who have died in Iraq to be in vain by pulling out before the job is done.”
| Source:
New York Times
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| May 23, 2006 | -
Scientists in North Carolina said that they could grow new, functional rabbit
penises.
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Fox News
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| April 5, 2006 | - In North Carolina, Duke University cancelled its lacrosse season after an African-American stripper was allegedly gang-raped by white lacrosse-team members. Soon after the allegations emerged, Duke lacrosse player Ryan McFadyen sent an email to fellow team members inviting them to another party featuring strippers. "i plan on killing the bitches as soon as the walk in," he wrote, "and proceding to cut their skin off while cumming in my duke issue spandex."
| Source:
The Smoking Gun
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| April 4, 2006 | - Doctors in North Carolina announced that they had successfully implanted lab-grown bladders into several patients.
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New Scientists
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| February 24, 2006 | - In Raleigh, North Carolina, seven paratroopers from the 82nd Airborne Division were in trouble for appearing in a sex video on a gay-themed website.
| Source:
AP via Yahoo! News
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| December 2, 2005 | - In North Carolina Kenneth Boyd became the 1,000th prisoner executed since the United States reintroduced the death penalty in 1976. “It's a milestone we should all be ashamed of,” said Boyd's lawyer.
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BBC News
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| September 5, 2005 | - In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina the United States declared disasters in Alabama, Florida, Louisiana, and Mississippi. Taken together, the 90,000-square-mile disaster area would be the twelfth largest state. Emergencies were declared in Colorado, Georgia, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Utah, and West Virginia.
| Source:
U.S. Department of Defense
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| June 21, 2005 | - Judges in North Carolina were preparing to deliberate over whether the Koran can be used instead of the Bible to administer oaths.
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JournalNow
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| May 27, 2005 | - In North Carolina a man was released from prison after serving thirty-five years of his life sentence for stealing a $140 TV set.
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WRAL.com
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| May 6, 2005 | - A Baptist church in North Carolina booted out nine of its members for being Democrats.
| Source:
The News & Observer
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| March 14, 2005 | - A North Carolina
dentist was in trouble for filling syringes with his semen and squirting it into the mouths of several female patients.
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AP
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| November 9, 2004 | - A North Carolina doctor gave women orgasms by running electric wires directly into their spines.
| Source:
ABC News
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| November 4, 2004 | -
Election software in Onslow County, North Carolina, miscounted the votes for county commissioners.
| Source:
Jacksonville Daily News
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| November 4, 2004 | - Four thousand five hundred and thirty early electronic votes in Carteret County, North Carolina, were lost.
| Source:
New Bern Sun Journal
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| August 14, 2004 | - A Pakistani man was in custody in North Carolina for videotaping skyscrapers.
| Source:
Associated Press
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