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March 6, 2012 8:59 AM
HOPE MILLS, N.C. (AP) - A Special Forces soldier and his two daughters died early Tuesday after he tried to rescue them from his burning home near Fort Bragg in North Carolina. The adults managed to escape the burning home by jumping from second-floor bedrooms, but the father wrapped himself...
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December 3, 2011 2:39 PM
Kentucky Men's Basketball December 2, 2011 #1/1 Kentucky 73 vs. #5/5 North Carolina 72 Rupp Arena - 24,398 attendance
Team Records and Series Notes • Kentucky is 8-0 and North Carolina is 6-2. • North Carolina leads the series, 22-13, and UK is 125-62 all-time against teams from the Atlantic Coast...
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December 3, 2011 2:35 PM
(AP) - Freshman Anthony Davis blocked John Henson's shot in the final seconds and Doron Lamb scored 12 of his 14 points in the second half as No. 1 Kentucky held on to beat No. 5 North Carolina 73-72 on Saturday to extend the Wildcats' home winning streak to 39...
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December 2, 2011 7:33 PM
On how much tape he's watched since last night's game ... "I watched our tape last night. I watched two or three other tapes of North Carolina. They're good. We're not making the game easy for each other and that's the biggest issue we have right now.
Until you...
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November 29, 2011 8:11 PM
CHAPEL HILL, N.C. (AP) - North Carolina lasted about three weeks at No. 1 before taking its first loss and seeing its best player hobbled by an ankle injury. Now things really get tough for the Tar Heels. With preseason All-American Harrison Barnes recovering from a sprained right ankle, fifth-ranked...
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November 28, 2011 10:36 PM
Thousands of Kentucky fans will have a chance to prove they were present at the Kentucky Basketball Game as they take on UNC, when the UK FanCam comes to Rupp Arena.
Fans will need to be in their seats 18 minutes prior to tipoff (12 minutes on the pregame...
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August 26, 2011 9:08 AM
NAGS HEAD, N.C. (AP) - The first rain from Hurricane Irene is reaching the Carolinas as the massive storm trudges toward the East Coast. National Weather Service meteorologist Rachel Zouzias says rain carried by Irene's outer bands was reaching the southeastern part of North Carolina. Rain is also falling in...
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August 24, 2011 6:08 AM
HATTERAS, N.C. (AP) - With Hurricane Irene approaching, evacuations began on a tiny barrier island off North Carolina early Wednesday in what would be the first test of whether people in the crosshairs of what could be the first major storm in years along the East Coast will heed orders...
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August 10, 2011 9:21 AM
FRANKFORT (AP) - Firefighters from Kentucky have returned home after helping fight blazes in North Carolina for two weeks. A statement from the Kentucky Division of Forestry says the crew of 11 firefighters was assigned to the Juniper Road Fire complex and to surrounding blazes. The statement said suppression efforts...
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July 26, 2011 9:11 AM
FRANKFORT (AP) - Firefighters from the Kentucky Division of Forestry have traveled to North Carolina to respond to a wildfire emergency, the fourth team sent to assist another state since early June. The crew has been assigned to the Juniper Road Fire that started on June 19 and has burned...
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June 8, 2011 9:21 AM
UNAKA, N.C. (AP) - The pilot of a plane that took off from Atlanta's Fulton County Airport last month and crashed in the North Carolina mountains reported a fire on board and then never responded to questions from air traffic controllers. A preliminary accident report released this week from the...
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May 27, 2011 5:34 AM
A plane flying from Atlanta to Hazard crashed in a rugged mountainous area of western North Carolina Wednesday afternoon.
Difficult terrain and bad weather in the area hampered recovery efforts, but Cherokee County Sheriff Keith Lovin said crews reached the crash scene on Thursday and recovered four bodies.
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May 26, 2011 8:22 AM
UNAKA, N.C. (AP) - Searchers are hiking back into a rural mountain area of western North Carolina to search the twin-engine plane crash that killed at least one person. Cherokee County spokesman Doug Clement said Thursday crews had secured the site and were waiting for daylight to continue the investigation....
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March 27, 2011 9:08 PM
Kentucky Basketball Postgame Notes Kentucky vs. North Carolina March 27, 2011 NCAA Tournament - Regional Finals Prudential Center - Newark, N.J.
-- Kentucky improves to 29-8 on the season. North Carolina finishes its season at 29-8. --The Wildcats are 12-22 all-time against North Carolina and 1-2 against the Heels...
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March 27, 2011 9:11 AM
Both Kentucky and North Carolina have improved light years this season. Using a game that was played in December makes no sense.
Once you get past the obvious, that both teams had enough talent to get to the point where on Sunday they play for the right to get...
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March 26, 2011 7:31 PM
NEWARK, N.J. (AP) - John Calipari cringes when people bring up the subject of one-and-done players, those freshmen who use college basketball merely as a springboard to the NBA. He's certainly had his share of them, four last year alone. But every time newcomers Brandon Knight and Doron Lamb knock...
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March 26, 2011 7:15 PM
NEWARK, N.J. (AP) - In an NCAA tournament filled with stunning upsets and unlikely party crashers, the East region has provided an oasis of sanity. Kentucky. North Carolina. College basketball bluebloods whose gyms are ringed with national championship banners and whose fan bases are disappointed any time a season ends...
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March 22, 2011 12:19 AM
Victoria Dunlap scored 23 points in her final game as a Kentucky Wildcat, as the UK women fall to North Carolina 86-74 in the second round of the NCAA tournament Monday night.
Italee Lucas scored 22 points and Jessica Breland added 18 for the Tarheels.
Kentucky, which hasn't...
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March 21, 2011 10:37 PM
Kentucky fell apart towards the end of the first half, with North Carolina going on a 14-5 run to end it and Kentucky trails 40-29 at the break.
The Cats have struggled shooting the ball for most of the first half, shooting just 30.6%, and North Carolina has gotten...
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March 20, 2011 6:19 PM
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) - Both North Carolina and Kentucky got off to slow starts in the NCAA tournament, heading into the locker room in their first-round games with their star players stuck on 2 points in just seven minutes of playing time. Wildcats forward Victoria Dunlap, the SEC player of...
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December 2, 2010 6:42 PM
UK Asst. Coach John Robic
On North Carolina's length presenting a challenge ...
"Their length presents a big challenge. (Tyler) Zeller is a seven-footer who can really run. The biggest thing for our guys is going to be getting back on defensive transition. (North Carolina) does a good...
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September 2, 2010 3:33 PM
BUXTON, N.C. (AP) - The last ferries pulled away from North Carolina's vulnerable barrier islands Thursday as Hurricane Earl spun closer with winds near 125 mph, putting the East Coast all the way to Canada on alert for what could be a blustery Labor Day weekend. A hurricane warning was...
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September 1, 2010 9:52 AM
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) - Powerful Hurricane Earl wheeled toward the East Coast, driving the first tourists Wednesday from North Carolina vacation islands and threatening damaging winds and waves up the Atlantic seaboard over Labor Day weekend. Visitors were taking ferries off Ocracoke Island and told to leave neighboring Cape Hatteras...
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September 1, 2010 7:46 AM
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) - Tourists on a North Carolina vacation destination island were preparing to board the ferries and head for the mainland early Wednesday and more evacuations could be on the way as powerful Hurricane Earl threatened to sideswipe the East Coast. Hyde County spokeswoman Jamie Tunnell, said about...
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July 2, 2010 10:39 AM
Several people from Kentucky were injured Thursday after a tour bus carrying a popular southern gospel group crashed into the back of a tractor trailer in North Carolina. A dozen people total, including three of the singers, were hurt. The bus belongs to Mike and Kelly Bowling from the Gospel...
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December 23, 2009 12:36 PM
A Bath county woman who made a plea via LEX 18 to have her father's body brought home from North Carolina for burial has had that wish come true thanks to an outpouring of support and contributions from LEX 18 viewers. Rana Perry's 55-year-old father, Harold "Rocky" Perry, died from...
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December 5, 2009 5:50 PM
Coaches are coaches. John Calipari is no different. "We're not back. We're not very good." Really? Those were Coach Cal's words after Kentucky beat #10 North Carolina 68-66 Saturday afternoon in Rupp Arena in front of a record crowd, and a loud one at that. UK had lost five straight...
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December 3, 2009 11:18 PM
It's just another game. Yeah, right. John Wall knows it's not because the atmosphere will be crazy, the fans will be loud, the two winningest programs will battle it out. But he's not ready to say this is something different because he's from North Carolina, or because they didn't offer...
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November 30, 2009 10:31 AM
A North Carolina newspaper is reporting that Music City Bowl officials are working on a North Carolina-Kentucky matchup for the December 27 game in Nashville. The Charlotte News-Observer reported on the website Monday that officials are trying to line up a potential hoops-themed matchup between the Tar Heels (8-4) and...
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November 17, 2009 9:35 AM
When 5-year-old Shaniya Davis was reported missing, suspicion turned to a man described as her mother's boyfriend. As he was let go, police targeted another man spotted on hotel surveillance footage holding the child. Then, authorities arrested the girl's mother and accused her of offering her daughter for prostitution. The...
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November 16, 2009 1:33 PM
Searchers found the body of a missing 5-year-old off a road Monday, ending a weeklong search for the girl, whose mother was accused of offering her for sex, police said. Fayetteville Police spokeswoman Theresa Chance told The Associated Press that searchers found Shaniya Davis' body southeast of Sanford in central...
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November 16, 2009 10:34 AM
Authorities searched along a highway Monday for the body of a missing 5-year-old girl but said they still hoped they might find her alive. Shaniya Davis has been missing since last Tuesday. Her mother, who reported her gone, is accused of offering her for prostitution, according to court documents and...
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November 13, 2009 11:40 AM
Police in North Carolina say they have arrested a new suspect in the alleged kidnapping of a girl still missing after disappearing from a mobile home park three days ago. Fayetteville police spokeswoman Theresa Chance said Friday that 29-year-old Mario Andrette McNeill confessed to the crime and has been charged...
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November 4, 2009 7:48 AM
ASHEVILLE, N.C. (AP) - Blasting is under way as crews try reopening Interstate 40 near the North Carolina-Tennessee state line where a massive rock slide closed the road late last month. The Asheville Citizen-Times reported Wednesday the work aims to topple large boulders hanging 150 feet up at the top...
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October 29, 2009 12:17 PM
A former Lexington woman's body has been found in rural North Carolina, and police think she could be the victim of a serial killer. Elizabeth Jane Smallwood was born and raised in Lexington, but moved a few years ago to North Carolina. Police say her body was dumped in a...
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