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Victoria Bowles, a former Georgia staffer who survived the tragic car wreck that killed a Bulldogs football player and another staffer, is now suing the school and Eagles rookie Jalen Carter with damning new allegations. The lawsuit, which was filed on Wednesday in Gwinnett County, accuses Carter — who was already charged with reckless racing and driving — of illegally leaving the scene without speaking to law enforcement and failing to render aid.

Michael Bowles’ mother, Eleanor, was his North Star. “I was on my way to visit her for the holidays and got to her a few hours too late,” he said Sunday. He found her dead in the garage of her home in a gated Buckhead community early Saturday evening. Bowles’ death is the second homicide at a Buckhead residence in as many months and comes amid the Atlanta community’s ongoing efforts to turn back a rash of violent crime.

by Becca London | RNNTodd Bowles, head coach of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, spoke to the press about the his team's upcoming game against the Pittsburgh Steelers on Thursday.Bowles has an extensive football career, both as a player and coach. He was signed by the Washington Redskins as an undrafted free agent player in 1986 and played in the league for seven years, including Washington’s Super Bowl XXII winning team.He has been coaching for over 25 years, including 7 NFL teams, earning another Super Bowl ring with the Bucs as Defensive Coordinator. His record is impeccable.So what did woke liberal...

PRESIDENT Joe Biden reportedly broke wind "loudly" while gassing with Camilla Parker Bowles at the COP26 summit. The Duchess of Cornwall "hasn't stopped talking about" the 78-year-old's "long fart" as it was "impossible to ignore", it's reported.

CHICAGO - Americans interested in getting the national debt crisis under control likely will have to endure cuts to popular programs like defense, Social Security - and the nationalized health insurance program known as Obamacare. Speaking in stark terms and folksy language, the duo laid out the dire reality of the situation to 4,000 investors at the Charles Schwab Impact conference Thursday. "Who the hell is kidding who on what this is going to cost?" Simpson, the former Wyoming senator, said of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, aka "Obamacare." "We haven't found any constituency yet who wants to...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H9kOP8ORAK0 Send this clip to your liberal idiot family and friends saying Ryan lied about Simpson Bowles.

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2012/08/13/erskine_bowles_ryan_budget_is_sensible_honest_serious.html Great clip. Destroys zero in this.

Why is this important? Erskine Bowles has a long pedigree as a Democratic budget thinker — and presidential adviser. When Barack Obama needed to pick the co-chair for his deficit committee, which he roundly ignored in the end, he chose Bowles to represent his side on the panel. Bowles served as Bill Clinton’s chief of staff, and earlier ran the Small Business Administration for Clinton. Ezra Klein predicted on Friday that Bowles would be the front-runner for Tim Geithner’s job at Treasury if Obama wins a second term. Bear in mind this while you watch this clip, found by our...

CNN interviews Alan Simpson and Erskine Bowles on the budget debate taking place in Washington between Republicans who want to cut 1.6% of the budget in FY2011 and Democrats who want to cut no more than 0.28% of the budget. Both chairs of Barack Obama’s deficit commission scoff at the entire debate, pointing out that neither cuts would amount to a hill of beans in controlling the spiraling debt of the United States. Simpson and Bowles emphasize that the debate has to shift from discretionary spending to entitlement reform, and that certain established interests (cough-cough-AARP-cough) are doing their best to...

A Loveland high school educator has been arrested in connection with a sexual assault on a child after police said they found her and a boy in a car ... Loveland police said a patrol officer contacted Courtney Bowles, 31, and the boy at 10:40 p.m. on Friday because they were in a car parked at North Lake Park after closing time. Bowles has been married for eight years, according to her Facebook page. Bowles served a five-month internship on Gov. Bill Ritter's Office of Policy Initiatives in 2008, according to her LinkedIn profile.

Shut down a UNC campus?By Eric Ferreri - Staff writer Modified Thu, Nov 04, 2010 02:50 PM File this under "Worst Case Scenario." UNC President Erskine Bowles is broaching something many would surely view unthinkable: If budget cuts continue at higher levels than now anticipated, might an entire public university campus be shut down? "If you have 20 percent budget cuts, you'll have to think about closing down campuses," Bowles told members of the UNC system's Board of Governors today. "Period." That was the second time this morning Bowles broached that notion - an extreme one, no doubt, but one...

Raleigh, N.C. — University of North Carolina President Erskine Bowles announced Friday morning that he will retire as head of the 16-campus system by the end of this year, or as soon as a successor can be named. "I know in my head that this is the right decision at the right time," Bowles told the UNC Board of Governors during its monthly meeting. Bowles was named UNC president in January 2006, and he said Friday that he had always planned to stay in the position for no more than five years. He called the university system "the best in...

Traitors of Record: The Record of the New York TimesBy Fedora “. . .the most untrustworthy paper in the United States. . .” --President Dwight Eisenhower, referring to the New York TimesIntroductionLast week Senator John Cornyn criticized the New York Times for endangering national security with a James Risen story on NSA surveillance timed to coincide with a vote on the Patriot Act and, incidentally, with the release of a book by Risen. A review of the record illustrates that endangering national security through irresponsible leaks is nothing new for the New York Times. Some particularly outrageous examples are worth...

On the day the University of North Carolina officially began its search for a new president, former U.S. Senate candidate Erskine Bowles said he wants the job of leading the 16-campus system. Bowles, a Charlottean whose resume includes the White House, Wall Street and now the United Nations, called the UNC system presidency "the one job in the world I would really like to have." "It presents an opportunity to have as significant an impact on shaping the future of North Carolina in a positive way as anything I can think of," Bowles told the Observer. "If you have an...

Charlotte Democrat Erskine Bowles has gone to work for his old boss Bill Clinton, this time as a deputy United Nations special envoy to the Indian Ocean region devastated by December's tsunami. "The United Nations will greatly benefit from Mr. Bowles' extensive experience in international affairs and his deep commitment to ensuring that the world does not turn its back on the tsunami victims," Secretary General Kofi Annan said in a statement. Annan said Bowles will work with Clinton, who was supposed to start his job as U.N. Special Envoy for Tsunami Recovery this month. Clinton is recovering from surgery...

With 10 days to go, GOP candidates in N.C. races broach subject to win votes in a bid that could backfire.Republicans working on behalf of U.S. Senate candidate Richard Burr and gubernatorial candidate Patrick Ballantine are saying on TV, radio and the campaign trail that their Democratic opponents have not done enough to curtail illegal immigration.

Need help to support the position that Edwards was not popular at home in NC and could not have even had won his senate primary had he run again for re-election in NC. A couple of folks are saying he would have been the favorite to have won. Can somebody direct me to a poll or two showing that he would have lost in the NC primary had he ran again.

October 7, 2004--The race to replace John Edwards as North Carolina's next U.S. Senator is too close to call. The latest Rasmussen Reports survey shows Republican Richard Burr with 47% of the vote and Democrat Erskine Bowles with 45%. The survey of 500 Likely Voters was conducted Monday, October 4, 2004.

Bowles 2002 October 4, 2001 To: Campaign Staffers  ***For your eyes only*** Now that I've announced that I am running for Senator from North Carolina, it's time to get this campaign going!!!!!  The bad news is, of course, that everyone thinks I am a Clinton lap dog.  But the good news is that I have done a package deal with the Clintons to come to North Carolina to support my campaign!  Yeah!  Here is what the deal looks like - everyone pay special attention. The A Team Bill Clinton:  Bill provides major firepower for the primary where our nation's first ...

How is Richard Burr doing against Bowles? Should Republicans be worried about this one?