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HILLSBOROUGH, N.C. - The second suspect charged with murdering the University of North Carolina student body president surrendered peacefully to police early Thursday, authorities said. Lawrence Alvin Lovette Jr., 17, was arrested by Durham patrol and SWAT officers several hours after they surrounded a home where he was hiding, said Durham police Lt. Robert McLaughlin Jr. Authorities had received an anonymous tip that Lovette was in the house, McLaughlin said. Lovette remained in Durham police custody Thursday morning, said Chapel Hill police Lt. Kevin Gunter. It wasn't clear when he would be transferred to their custody or make an initial...

Durham, N.C. — Heavily armed Durham police, surrounding a house before dawn Thursday, captured the second of two men charged with murder in the shooting of the student body president at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Lawrence Alvin Lovette Jr., 17, surrendered to officers from the department's Selective Enforcement Team outside a house on Cook Road at 4:16 a.m. Police had surrounded the house hours before after receiving an anonymous tip through the Durham County Sheriff's Office

2 Charged in UNC Student Leader Slaying Published: 3/12/08, 6:05 PM EDT By ERIN GARTNER and MIKE BAKER HILLSBOROUGH, N.C. (AP) - Two suspects were charged Wednesday with first-degree murder in the killing of the University of North Carolina's student body president. Demario James Atwater, 21, of Durham, was arrested and ordered held without bond. Police said they are still searching for the second suspect, 17-year-old Lawrence Alvin Lovett Jr. Chapel Hill Police Chief Brian Curran declined to say whether Lovett was the subject of an intense police standoff Wednesday afternoon in nearby Durham. City Councilman Eugene Brown said it...

Police in Durham, N.C., have arrested a man who may be a person of interest in the murder of a University of North Carolina student during an overnight raid and have handed him over to the Chapel Hill Police Department, according to ABC News affiliate WTVD. Possible Break in Murder CaseRaw video of the arrest shows a young black male who fits the description of the person police believe used Eve Carson's ATM card the night the UNC student body president was found fatally shot near campus. Orange County District Attorney Jim Woodall said that police are now questioning a...

<p>ORANGE COUNTY: Sources confirmed to NC WANTED that Durham police have arrested a person of interest in the murder of UNC student body president Eve Carson.</p> <p>Durham officials turned the man over to police in Chapel Hill, where he is currently being held for questioning.</p>

Chapel Hill, N.C. — Chapel Hill police Monday evening released two new photographs of a man they want to talk to about the shooting death of University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Student Body President Eve Carson. The photos show a black man attempting to use Carson’s debit card at an automated-teller machine in a local convenience store, Chapel Hill Police Chief Brian Curran said. He did not specify when or where the pictures were taken, in order to protect the investigation. "The photos depict a male going into an area convenience store," Curran said. That man was the...

A photography expert with over 30 years of experience says that a second person can be seen in the back seat of the SUV in a photo provided by police regarding the murder of UNC student Eve Carson. William Mathis of Mathis & Jones Communications near St. Louis, Missouri initially contacted the Raleigh Chronicle newspaper to provide a color enhanced version of the ATM surveillance photos that were provided by Chapel Hill Police. UNC student body president Eve Carson, age 22, was found murdered on Wednesday morning in Chapel Hill and police are looking for the man whose photo was...

A convert to Islam stands an election victory away from becoming the second Muslim elected to Congress and a role model for a faith community seeking to make its mark in national politics. Political newcomer Andre Carson is the Democratic nominee in a March 11 special election to succeed his late grandmother, Julia Carson, representing Indiana's 7th District. She died in December of lung cancer, and her grandson is seeking to fill out the rest of her sixth term, which expires at year's end. If Andre Carson wins the Democratic-leaning Indianapolis district over a freshman Republican legislator and a long...

INDIANAPOLIS -- Andre Carson, the grandson of late U.S. Rep. Julia Carson, was chosen Saturday as the Democratic nominee for a March special election to determine who will serve out the rest of her congressional term. Carson won 223 of the 439 votes cast by Democratic precinct committee members for eight candidates seeking the nomination for the March 11 special election for the 7th District. "We did it! Thank God, we did it!" he shouted after bounding onto the stage after the results were announced. Carson got 100 more votes than the runner-up, State Rep. David Orentlicher. Carson, a member...

Indianapolis - Indiana congresswoman Julia Carson says she needs more rehabilitation from a serious leg infection and won't go back to Capitol Hill until mid-December. She hoped to return to Washington Thursday. But in a statement, the 69-year-old says she's frustrated, but unfortunately healing takes longer than expected.

Rachel Carson wrote Silent Spring--the book that got mosquito-killer DDT banned and launched the modern environmental movement--while struggling with cancer. The disease killed Carson in 1964, two years after Silent Spring came out. Today's Washington Post has a story on Carson--whose 100th birth anniversary occurs later this month--and her noble fight against cancer. A touching piece. But maddening, too! Because in the story's 34 paragraphs, there are only a buried pair, the 26th and 27th, that note the ongoing controversy about DDT's ban. A Maryland Congressman (evil Republican, of course ... wink, wink) is quoted as saying that malaria deaths...

Here's a question that High School science teachers might want to include in their next pop quiz: Which of the following megalomaniacs caused the greatest amount of death and destruction in the 20th Century? A- Josef Stalin B- Adolf Hitler C- Pol Pot D- Rachel Carson Here's a hint. The lies and distortions of the criminal in question resulted in more death, disease, poverty and misery than the other three combined. The correct answer is critical to the understanding of how environmental science has evolved in the last forty years. With all the media jabbering about Globalism in 2006 one...

This race is one that no one has been watching because it has always been solidly Dem in IN-7. With 17% of precincts reported, Eric Dickerson-R is ahead of Julia Carson-D 52% to 48%.

Per "Steve" WIBC-Radio 1070AM Judge is currently hearing an Emergency Injunction against the Democratic Party of Marion County. Judge says TWO of the THREE allegations are potentiaonally FELONIES! They gave BOX LUNCHES to voters at a precinct at the Indianapolis Children's museum(Deep, Inner-City) with Democrat Literature in them, and Poll Workers giving out Dem Lit at the Signup Tables INSIDE of at least TWO precincts.... Per WIBC the allegation of using the City's Emergency Broadcast Sytem (Mecca) to urge City Employees to Vote Democrat cannot be confirmed yet....

Indianapolis - For the first time in a decade, Congresswoman Julia Carson is in a tough race for re-election. Her campaign started running a batch of positive image ads on the same day National Democrats go after her Republican opponent with the gloves off. Her yard signs sell love, but there is no love in fliers hitting some 7th District mail boxes attacking Congresswoman Julia Carson's opponent. "I'm absolutely shocked and appalled," says Republic Eric Dickerson. The ads were done by the National Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee in Washington and not by Congresswoman Carson. Carson told Eyewitness News "I'm outraged...

Much has been written about Democratic challengers taking over Republican incumbent seats in the U.S. House of Representatives. In one Indiana congressional district, however, an African-American Republican has the opportunity to beat a African-American Democratic incumbent. Challenger Republican Eric Dickerson is up against incumbent Democrat Congresswoman Julia Carson. Here’s why the race is interesting:

When presidential election returns are reported every four years, Indiana is among the first states to reliably and resoundingly fall into the red Republican column. But beneath the presidential level, Indiana is a fiercely competitive state between Democrats and Republicans. And that's particularly relevant this year when a trifecta of House races in the state could hold the key to whether the GOP will keep majority control in the House or Democrats will eke out at least the net gain of 15 seats they need to seize the majority they lost in 1994.

INDIANAPOLIS - A second media poll in a week shows that Democratic Rep. Julia Carson is in an unexpectedly close re-election campaign just two weeks before Election Day. Carson, seeking her sixth term in the 7th District that includes most of Indianapolis, was the pick of 48 percent of those surveyed, with Republican Eric Dickerson supported by 43 percent in WISH-TV Indiana Poll released Monday. Nine percent were undecided in the poll, which has a margin of error of plus or minus 5 percentage points. The new poll found the race much tighter than a WISH survey in early September,...

INDIANAPOLIS - Democratic Rep. Julia Carson was in a close race three weeks before Election Day with an underfunded Republican challenger who has raised questions about her years of health problems, according to a new poll. Carson, seeking her sixth term in the 7th District that includes most of Indianapolis, was the pick of 42 percent of those survey, but Republican Eric Dickerson had the support of 45 percent in the poll released Thursday by television station WTHR. Thirteen percent said they were undecided or would vote for someone else. The poll had a margin of error of plus or...

CINCINNATI -- Carson Palmer still faces many uncertainties as he rehabs his left knee. How many games -- if any -- will he miss this fall? And who might fill in for him now that former backup Jon Kitna signed as a free agent with Detroit? He says he expects to play in the regular-season opener, but that also might be in question. "I wish I knew when I was coming back," Palmer said Wednesday. "The last thing I need to do is push anything too early and push back the date that I can really step on the field...

Oil giant BP is expected to announce today the construction of a second, clean-burning power plant, this time in the United States, a BP executive told an Anchorage audience this week. BP and some partners moved forward last year with a similar but smaller plant in Scotland. In all, BP plans to spend $8 billion to build a total of 10 plants worldwide that generate "carbon-free" power, the executive said. Charles Christopher, BP's CO2 program manager, spoke Wednesday at the Alaska Forum on the Environment about the oil company's efforts to reduce greenhouse gases and make money doing it. BP...

Maybe you "current events" thread readers would like to come to this thread:http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1563210/posts and share thoughts about Johnny. The King of Comedy passed away 1 year ago.

The king is dead. That line, stolen from a classic Carson bit, pretty much describes the feelings of many on the morning of January 23rd, when they awoke to the news that Johnny Carson, the Once and Future King of Late Night Television, had died of emphysema. Words like "icon", "legend" and "national "treasure" are used so frequently in the breathless prose of PR flacks and entertainment-news show anchors that they have nearly come to lose all meaning. But when those words started floating around on that Sunday morning, they were being used in all earnestness, and it could be...

An article by Jonathan David Carson, Ph.D. in the October 7, 2005 issue of “The American Thinker” was so insightful, that I felt I had to bring it to the attention of my viewers. I took the liberty of editing it to home in on what I thought were the essentials to make it easier to read and understand, but you can follow the link to see the entire article if you wish. “One of the favorite worries of the professional worrying class is the establishment of religion. After reading accounts of recent Supreme Court decisions, which rule that display...

Heeeeere's Al, Thanks to Carson Sign In to E-Mail This Printer-Friendly Reprints By JACQUES STEINBERG Published: July 25, 2005 SAN FRANCISCO, July 23 - As vice president, Al Gore learned that the most disarming way to counter his wooden image was to tell better jokes about himself than the late-night comedians did. Mr. Gore now says he received occasional tutoring on those one-liners from the master of the television monologue, Johnny Carson. Mr. Gore said he had telephoned Mr. Carson on several occasions in the mid-1990's to seek his guidance on "timing and delivery." "He let me call him up...

IN A NURSING home where I once used to work during school holidays, there lay a barrel-chested man with a kind face and thick black hair. He was a Vietnam War veteran and had his own room, though he never seemed to have visitors. He was paralysed and I rarely did more than glimpse him through the door, except when called in to help with some gruesome task or other, such as a manual, which required a nurse with gloves to manually, or more accurately digitally, extract fecal matter from the poor man's backside. He also had malaria - legacy...

Stopping Malaria In the wake of the tsunami, malaria and other mosquito-borne diseases may be the next tragedy to hit Southeast Asia. DDT can prevent this tragedy. The massive magnitude 9.0 earthquake in Southeast Asia unleashed a terrifying tsunami that has already claimed more than 200,000 lives. But as the rainy season approaches, a new disaster may be in the offing. Standing water left by the tsunami and turned brackish with the onset of monsoon rains may attract swarms of disease-bearing mosquitoes. These mosquitoes may infect thousands upon thousands, maybe even millions, of tsunami survivors with malaria. According to the Associated...

LOS ANGELES (AP) - A Southern California water district board member who pleaded guilty to accepting a $25,000 bribe in exchange for voting to award a contract for financial services was sentenced to two years in prison. Tyrone Smith, 47, of Ladera Heights is one of about a dozen officials who had been convicted following a Federal Bureau of Investigation probe in to municipal corruption in Carson. U.S. District Judge Nora Manella on Monday rejected a defense request for six months of home detention. She said that granting such a sentence would send the wrong message to public officials who...

SANTA ANA, Calif. (AP) - The son of a Los Angeles-area congresswoman was sentenced to 41 months in prison for an extortion scheme involving municipal contracts in the city of Carson. R. Keith McDonald, 41, a former president of the West Basin Municipal Water District board, was convicted in October of receiving kickbacks and paying off three Carson City Council members for their support of a $6 million public bus service contract. McDonald and his mother, Rep. Juanita Millender-McDonald, D-Torrance, asked for leniency, with the congresswoman writing in a letter to the court that her son was in an "unfortunate...

PLAYBOY: The Tonight show, under your control, has been criticized for deliberately avoiding controversy. Is there any truth to that? CARSON: Well, bullshit! That's my answer. I just don't feel that Johnny Carson should become a social commentator. Jack Paar got into that, being an expert on everything happening. So did Dave Garroway and Steve Allen and Godfrey. Who cares what entertainers on the air think about international affairs? Who would want to hear me about Vietnam? They can hear all they want from people with reason to be respected as knowledgeable. Controversy just isn't what this show is for....

FORT HUACHUCA - With the screams of his fellow soldiers from Fort Huachuca, Nathaniel Hicks used of barrage of punches in the final round to claim a 25-18 decision over Paul Eghareva of Fort Drum, N.Y., on Saturday night at the All Army Boxing Championships at Barnes Field House. "It motivated me when they started to scream my name, and it gave me more power to go out there and do good," Hicks said. Hicks, however, won't be advancing to the Armed Forces Championship, Feb. 17-19 at Fort Huachuca in the 165-weight class, but he did walk away with the...

Johnny Carson died in a Los Angeles hospital with his wife and two sons at his bedside, People magazine reports. Carson was at Cedars-Sinai Hospital, not at home as originally reported, when he died of emphysema Sunday at 79. His sons, Christopher and Cory, and his wife, Alexis, who Carson married in 1987, were with him. The longtime Tonight show host was a heavy smoker, a habit his brother, TV producer Dick Carson, said he always regretted. In our last conversation he kept saying, 'Those damn cigarettes, those damn cigarettes,' Dick Carson, director of the Merv Griffin Show, told the...

If Johnny Carson could have managed it, no doubt his death would have been a private affair. Who would have been invited to his memorial service? We don't know. That is the measure of his integrity as a private man. We don't even know how many of his ex-wives would have been invited, or would have come. I was his guest a half-dozen times, and was always handled with great courtesy. He once confided to a critic that I was the only guest he had ever been frightened of. I don't know what the circumstances of that odd situation were,...

If you look up at the awesome Milky Way and smile about its billions and billions of stars, be grateful to Johnny Carson (1925 - 2005) for bringing the universe home through cathode ray technology, his vast talent and avid interest in astronomy. Carson brought two distinguished astronomers and popularizers to The Tonight Show television audience and wider public notice. Robert Jastrow's book, Red Giants and White Dwarfs: Man's Descent from the Stars, first published in 1967, describes scientific discoveries relating humans to the origin and evolution of the cosmos. The book grew from Jastrow's 1964 television lectures as part...

Los Angeles DEAR JOHNNY, This letter comes a little late. I remember seeing the tape of my first appearance on your show, on a home recording, a reel-to-reel Sony prototype video recorder, probably around 1972. What my friends and I ended up watching was not me, but you. It's almost impossible to look away from oneself onscreen, but you made it possible, because there were lessons in what you did. You and Jack Benny taught me about generosity toward other comedians, about the appreciation of the plight of the pro, as valuable as any lessons I ever learned. Your gift...

The following is a quote provided by Bill Clinton on the death of Tonight Show host Johnny Carson. Bill Clinton: "Those 20 minutes on 'The Tonight Show' did more for my career than speaking for two days at the Democratic National Convention."

LOS ANGELES (AP) - Johnny Carson, the "Tonight Show" TV host who served America a smooth nightcap of celebrity banter, droll comedy and heartland charm for 30 years, has died. He was 79. "Mr. Carson passed away peacefully early Sunday morning," his nephew, Jeff Sotzing, told The Associated Press. "He was surrounded by his family, whose loss will be immeasurable. There will be no memorial service." Sotzing would not give further details, including the time of death or the location. The boyish-looking Nebraska native with the disarming grin, who survived every attempt to topple him from his late-night talk show...

LOS ANGELES (AP) - A former Carson mayor was sentenced Monday to nearly six years in prison for orchestrating a kickback scheme in which he and other government officials pocketed tens of thousands of dollars in bribes to steer city business to contractors. In imposing the 71-month sentence, U.S. District Judge Percy Anderson said former Carson Mayor Daryl Sweeney and his conspirators on the City Council had a single goal - greed. "I don't think this was about losing your way or taking a wrong turn. You're really nothing more than a thief - a petty thief," the judge told...

By JIM MYERS World Washington Bureau 11/6/2004 WASHINGTON -- Democrat Brad Carson's message could not overcome the Republican wave in Oklahoma to help him become the state's next U.S. senator, but some party leaders think that message still could help Democrats nationally. Jay Parmley, the chairman of the Oklahoma Democratic Party, said he has been contacted by party leaders in other states, suggesting Carson as a successor to Democratic National Committee Chairman Terry McAuliffe. Carson, they believe, could help the party talk to voters in the so-called red states like Oklahoma that voted overwhelmingly for President Bush. "McAuliffe has done...

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U.S. Senate, OK 10/31/2004 Coburn (R) 48% Carson (D) 35.1% Bilyeu (I) 8% Other/Undecided 6% Data Collected 10/28/04 - 10/30/04 Geography State of Oklahoma Sample Population 656 Likely Voters Margin of Error 3.9% Client KJRH-TV Tulsa KFOR-TV Oklahoma City Marriage Amendment, OK 10/31/2004 Yes 74% No 24% Undecided 2% Data Collected 10/28/04 - 10/30/04 Geography State of Oklahoma Sample Population 633 Likely Voters Margin of Error 3.8% Client KJRH-TV Tulsa KFOR-TV Oklahoma City Education Lottery Act, OK 10/31/2004 Yes 69% No 29% Undecided 2% Data Collected 10/28/04 - 10/30/04 Geography State of Oklahoma Sample Population 637 Likely Voters Margin of...

Story last updated at 9:30 AM on October 29, 2004 Coburn kicks off bus tour at church By Ron Jenkins Associated Press Writer OKLAHOMA CITY -- Republican Tom Coburn, standing in front of a large Bush-Cheney poster erected outside a south Oklahoma City church, began a bus tour on Thursday by declaring he will defeat Democrat Brad Carson in their bruising Senate race. ANDY CARPENEAN   Republican Senate candidate Tom Coburn addresses a crowd of supporters, Thursday, Oct. 28, 2004 in Enid, Okla. Coburn is on a statewide tour with Republicans, from left, fellow senator Jim Inhofe, retiring U.S. Senator...

TULSA, Oct. 29 -- President Bush may be fighting nationally to keep his own job, but here in Oklahoma, his coattails are giving quite a lift to the Republican candidate in a tight and contentious Senate race. For weeks, former congressman Tom Coburn (R ) has been struggling just to stay even with Rep. Brad Carson (D), a troubling sign in a conservative state where Coburn should be enjoying a comfortable lead by now. But as the race comes to a close, the family doctor who prides himself in snubbing the Washington political game has found that his ace in...

Suit claims chief illegally uses federal funds, and forces employees to campaign for Brad Carson.

NRA OUTRAGED BY CARSON MAILER Democrats Slammed for ‘Blatant Attempt to Mislead Oklahoma Voters;’ Oklahoma Democratic Party Mailer Lists Carson’s HQ on Return Address Muskogee – In a statement released last night by Christopher Cox, chief lobbyist for the National Rifle Association, the nation’s leading 2nd Amendment organization, has denounced a mailing put out by Brad Carson and the Oklahoma Democratic Party. The mailer, designed to discredit with Oklahoma voters Dr. Coburn’s perfect record on the 2nd Amendment, continues the smear campaign of Brad Carson and his liberal allies even after Carson has publicly denounced negative campaigning to the media....

October 23, 2004--Republican Tom Coburn has come from behind and is now leading Democrat Brad Carson in Oklahoma's U.S. Senate race. A Rasmussen Reports survey of 500 Likely Voters shows Coburn with 48% of the vote to 43% for Carson. The telephone survey was conducted October 20. A month earlier, a Rasmussen Reports survey found Carson ahead by 48% to 44% margin. The biggest change over the past month is that supporters of President Bush are now more supportive of the Republican Senate candidate. Our September 29 survey found that just 62% of Bush voters were planning to vote for...

President, OK 10/21/2004 Bush (R) 64% Kerry (D) 34% Other/Undecided 3% Data Collected 10/18/04 - 10/20/04 Geography State of Oklahoma Sample Population 627 Likely Voters Margin of Error 3.9% Client KJRH-TV Tulsa KFOR-TV Oklahoma City ------------------------------------------------- U.S. Senate, OK 10/21/2004 Coburn (R) 47% Carson (D) 41% Bilyeu (I) 8% Other/Undecided 4% Data Collected 10/18/04 - 10/20/04 Geography State of Oklahoma Sample Population 625 Likely Voters Margin of Error 4.0% Client KJRH-TV Tulsa KFOR-TV Oklahoma City

Dear Friends, Below you will find the truth about Brad Carson's negative attack ads. I know this will help you as we enter the final days of the campaign. Thanks for all your hard work. Please feel free to distribute this information. The Truth About Brad Carson’s Attack Ads Brad Carson and the national Democrats are running ads alleging that Dr. Coburn committed Medicaid fraud. These charges are completely false. Last Friday, Senator Nickles said, "I've never seen such a blatant attempt at character assassination in a campaign." In fact, these attacks expose yet another of Brad Carson’s flip flops...

Hastert Predicts Carson Likely To Win 10-20-2004 1:09 PM (Oklahoma City, OK) -- Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert says Democrat Brad Carson will defeat Doctor Tom Coburn in the Oklahoma U.S. Senate election. The Republican congressional leader made the prediction during an interview with a reporter from the Chicago newspaper the "Daily Herald." The paper quotes Hastert as saying, quote, "we have a race in Oklahoma that we are probably not going to win." The race has been one of the most hard fought in state history with both sides spending millions of dollars. The latest polls show a...

Dear Friends, As some of you have heard, Brad Carson, the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, and a shadowy liberal 527 organization launched what looks very much like a coordinated attack on Dr. Coburn last night. You are going to hear some terrible things said about Dr. Coburn over the next couple of days, but you have to remember THEY ARE NOT TRUE. It is our job – all of us – to make sure that the people of Oklahoma know that. Brad Carson is personally running an ad about the discredited and disgusting allegations that Dr. Coburn sterilized a woman...