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Some guys have all the luck. And then there's Rick Oliver, who might be one of the unluckiest men in the state, if not the world. Oliver was mauled by a bear in his otherwise peaceful front yard a few weeks ago. "It was like getting struck by lightning," he said. Turns out, Oliver might be one of the few people in the world capable of accurately making the bear-lightning analogy. And for Oliver, 51, the two incidents seem to go hand in hand. Ever since he was struck by lightning in 2006, Oliver says, he's had trouble sleeping. On...

Spartanburg, S.C. - A North Carolina man was arrested after deputies say he exposed himself to a woman and offered to pave her driveway in exchange for sex. Billie Bobbie Harrison, 24, of Winston-Salem, is charged with one count of indecent exposure. The Spartanburg County Sheriff's Office says Harrison and another man drove up to the home of a 55-year old Chesnee woman on Tuesday. The men asked her about paving her driveway. The victim says the conversation took a perverted turn when Harrison began to make sexual comments about her jewelry, then exposed himself to her and offered to...

A leading medical firm has quietly recalled hundreds of human tissue products destined for transplants around the nation that were supplied by a North Carolina body parts broker believed to have a tainted history. The broker used an unsterile embalming room to carve up dozens of corpses to procure tissue, a Raleigh funeral home director said Tuesday. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration shut down the body broker on Friday, but refuses to say how many people may have received potentially risky tissue. It is the second scandal in less than a year in the booming tissue transplant industry. Cadaver...

DUBLIN, N.C. Authorities said a Bladen County man whose body was found at a racetrack here apparently died of a rattlesnake bite. Lloyd Hood, 44, had been missing since Tuesday, when he spotted the 4-foot snake while walking with a friend through a wooded ravine next to Dublin Motor Speedway. Investigators said the friend - who hates snakes - went back to the car and waited while Hood tried to catch it. Hood - an avid hunter and outdoorsman - never returned, and the friend tried unsuccessfully to find him before leaving and filing a missing person report Wednesday. Chief...

Police Arrest Man Wearing Only a Toga 1 hour, 53 minutes ago MORGANTON, N.C. - Police captured a man wearing only a toga while he sped away in a car with women's underwear inside. Michael Sean Ostrander, 33, was arrested Monday after allegedly breaking into the home of a Burke County woman and making off with some of her clothes. The woman told police she was visiting a neighbor when she heard her burglar alarm go off and saw a man flee in a car. The woman gave chase and called the police, with the state Highway Patrol and local...

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