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20 suspects carried N.C. licenses 3-10-05 By Taft Wireback Staff Writer News & Record GREENSBORO — Most of the aircraft workers arrested Tuesday on immigration charges at Piedmont Triad International Airport were carrying North Carolina driver’s licenses they shouldn’t have been issued. Twenty of 24 suspected, illegal immigrants had N.C. licenses, highlighting a continuing problem that state government has been unable to vanquish, said Thomas O’Connell of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. “That’s not uncommon. Practically everybody we arrest has a North Carolina driver’s license on them,” said O’Connell, resident agent in charge of ICE’s Piedmont Triad office. O’Connell’s agency...

Pair's AOL disc protest gathers momentum A protest against America Online's promotional CDs is gathering international support. Californians Jim McKenna and John Lieberman say they now have more than 80,000 and collection points in France, Germany, Australia and the UK. Their ultimate aim is to return a million of them to AOL's corporate headquarters in Virginia in a dump-truck. They insist they have nothing against the company except they are fed up with receiving unwanted discs in the post. The pair began by requesting the CDs through a website devoted to complaining about the discs. It features a gallery of...