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The hero UNC Charlotte student who died after jumping on a gunman when he opened fire in his classroom will be buried with full military honors. Riley Howell, 21, was one of two students who died in the shooting at the university's campus on Tuesday. Ellis Parlier, 19, also lost his life. When gunman Trystan Terrell burst into their anthropology class and opened fire, Howell ran towards him and tackled him to the ground. Officials in North Carolina say it bought police time to get to him and stop the shooting which saved countless lives. Wells Funeral Homes in Waynesville...

Riley Howell, pictured with his girlfriend, was killed in the UNCC shooting. ============================================================= Riley Howell, who was praised as a hero who “took the fight to” the UNCC shooter, saving lives, was named as one of the two victims who died in the terrifying mass shooting on the University of North Carolina at Charlotte campus. An ROTC cadet, Howell, 21, confronted the gunman as the shooter opened fire in a classroom, and Howell gave his life protecting his classmates, police confirmed. “He was the kind of person who you knew would take care of you the moment you met...

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Buy A Brick, Secure Our Nation! COLLEGE REPUBLICANS SEND BRICKS to SENATORS to PROTEST ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION and AMNESTY On Monday, May 1, 2006 the UNC College Republicans will sell bricks on campus to promote activism against illegal immigration and guest worker amnesty. The event will take place from 10:00 AM – 2:00 PM, around the Belk Tower. Five dollars will guarantee a brick with a customized message, and will cover shipping costs to the offices of Senators Bill Frist, Elizabeth Dole, and Richard Burr. Individuals may also choose to send bricks to Senators Edward Kennedy and John McCain, sponsors of...

CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- Two people died Saturday in an early morning crash on Interstate 485, and troopers say a wrong-way driver is to blame. The wreck happened near exit 67, close to Interstate 77, at about 12:30 a.m. The Highway Patrol said a Jeep driven by an 18-year-old man was on the westbound side of the highway going the wrong way when it slammed head-on into a silver Nissan Altima. That car flipped around and burst into flames, killing 23-year-old Eddel Rivera and 22-year-old Richard Bryant, both from Charlotte. The driver of the Jeep, whose name has not been released,...

UNITED NATIONS -- Iraq wants the United Nations to lift all sanctions and stop using the country's oil revenue to pay compensation to victims of the 1991 Gulf War and the salaries of U.N. weapons inspectors, Iraq's U.N. ambassador said Tuesday. Ambassador Samir Sumaidaie called sanctions "anachronistic and inappropriate" and said it's time for the Security Council to recognize that Iraq is a "much more internationally friendly" country that wants to be at peace with its neighbors. No longer needed, he said, was the U.N. Monitoring, Verification and Inspection Commission, which was responsible for dismantling Iraqi programs to build chemical...

Did Saddam Hussein loot a fund to compensate victims of the 1990 invasion? snip) Paul Volcker's U.N.-approved inquiry finally released the program's 55 secret internal audits, which Congress and others had been requesting for months. (snip) Now, with the release of the U.N.'s previously secret internal audits, we learn that there was considerable concern within the Secretariat's auditing department over some aspects of UNCC performance--(snip), may have resulted in overpayments of perhaps as much as $4 billion. For example, the auditors objected that in paying out claims at old (snip)exchange rates, the UNCC overpaid by $2.2 billion. Or there's the...