Tax Cheats Using Your Money to Fund Republicans

"He and brother Charles used some of the tax-evading profits for loans, homes and ranches (two ranches worth $54 million near Aspen, Colo.; condominiums worth $13 million in downtown Aspen; a 95-acre ranch worth $12 million near Dallas; and an oceanfront property worth $8...

Fire Destroys Home In Brier Creek

" April 10, 2007 North Carolina - Raleigh Fire Department officials were working to determine what sparked a two-alarm blaze Monday in the Brier Creek Country Club subdivision, destroying one house and damaging two nearby. Fire dispatchers received a call shortly after 2:30...

Morning Apartment Fire In Raleigh

" April 4, 2007 North Carolina - A fire broke out at the Raleigh Court Townhomes between 7:30 a.m. - 8:00 a.m., Monday, April 3. Fire officials say the fire appears to have started in the kitchen. They say there is smoke and water damage in the living room area. The fire was...

Raleigh Man Dies In Apartment Fire

" March 16, 2007 North Carolina - Michael Jameson Gunter died after a fire engulfed his apartment Thursday in Southeast Raleigh, but more lives might have been lost were it not for a Raleigh police officer who called 911 and knocked on residents' doors when he discovered...

Johnston Stump Landfill Might Burn All Week

" March 1, 2007 North Carolina - Firefighters and neighbors of the Stump Dump near Clayton have settled in for a prolonged struggle with a slow-burning fire that has covered nearly an acre and was the suspected source of thick smoke that blanketed parts of Raleigh on...

Fire Hits Flooring Business

" February 25, 2007 North Carolina - Fire crews from Garner and Raleigh are looking into what sparked a blaze at a flooring business Friday night. Raleigh Fire Department Division Chief James Poole said a call came in shortly after 8 p.m. about a fire at Virginia Hardwood...

Raleigh Apartment Fire Kills 3

" February 23, 2007 North Carolina - Firefighters found the charred bodies of a man, woman and infant inside a burning apartment Thursday, and police began a search for several children who may have lived in the unit. The fire was one of several that struck in North Carolina:...

Fire Chief Urges Vigilance After Ghent Blast

" February 2, 2007 West Virginia - After Tuesday's explosion in Ghent that leveled a convenience store and killed four people, including two volunteer firefighters, some Raleigh County emergency officials are re-examining how they handle such calls. "We just have to be more...

SOA Protesters Sentenced

"Grayman Ward, 20, of Raleigh, N.C., was the only one to plead no contest to entering military, naval or Coast Guard property -- a federal crime that carries a maximum sentence of six months. He lost his job when his employer found out about his arrest. Faircloth found Ward...