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Primaries in Indiana, Ohio and North Carolina Begin to Set Stage for Midterms
By Carl M. Cannon and Mary C. Curtis - Politics DailyIn Indiana, former Sen. Dan Coats continued his march on the comeback trail, besting four other Republican challengers in Tuesday's primary election and setting up a November contest in which he will be the likely favorite to capture the Senate seat being vacated by Democrat Evan Bayh. Coats' opponent will be Democratic Rep. Brad Ellsworth, a former police officer and county sheriff, who is serving in his second term in Congress. Coats retired from the Senate in 1998 and served as ambassador to Germany during the presidency of George W. Bush. He hasn't lived in Indiana in several years, but ...
N. Carolina Hiker Bumps Into President, First Lady
By David Knowles - AOL News(April 26) -- On a remote wooded path in North Carolina on Friday, a 65-year-old woman took a solitary hike. Little did she know she'd meet President Barack Obama and the first lady along the way. The chance encounter happened when Westerville, Ohio, resident Karen Russell was hiking the Mountains-to-Sea Trail just off the Blue Ridge Parkway, Asheville's Citizen-Times newspaper reported. Jonathan Walczak, Citizen-Times Karen Russell, of Westerville, Ohio, had a chance encounter with the president and first lady while hiking just off the Blue Ridge Parkway in North Carolina on Friday. "It ...
Death Row Inmates Get Reprieve with Racial Justice Act
By Mary C. Curtis - Politics DailyNorth Carolina has been in the news recently, and not in a good way. It made headlines when figures released by Public Policy Polling showed that only 24 percent of Republicans in the state believe that Barack Obama was born in the United States. Adding Democrats and Independents only brought the number up to 54 percent. What an easy punchline, a political footnote that played into regional stereotypes. ...
Only 24 Percent of North Carolina Republicans Think Obama Was Born in U.S.
By Ria Misra - Politics DailyA poll released Tuesday from Public Policy Polling shows just 24 percent of Republicans in North Carolina believe that President Obama was born in the United States, despite all evidence that he was indeed born in Hawaii. When factoring in both Democrat and Independent voters, that figure increases, but only to 54 percent. It's not just Obama that some North Carolinian voters are concerned about, though -- it's his native state. Of those who voted for McCain in North Carolina, only 89 percent agreed that Hawaii is part of the United States. ...
Green Sun Devils Show No Fear at CWS
By Jim Henry - AOL NewsAlthough it features one of the least experienced rosters in the nation, Arizona State has refused to rattle. In fact, don't even try to use the inexperience card when discussing the Sun Devils, who entered the College World Series without a senior starter. They dominated the Pacific-10 Conference and have remained perfect in the NCAA Tournament. Just ask their latest victim, the North Carolina Tar Heels, who just so happen to be making their fourth consecutive CWS appearance and have plenty of postseason stubble. "I don't know if I buy the inexperience," UNC coach Mike Fox said Sunday after ...
UNC Looms as Villain in MSU Fairy Tale
By Jay Mariotti - AOL NewsDETROIT -- Maybe it's his folksy arrogance, the Huckleberry Hound-with-an-attitude rub. Maybe it was the way he lectured TV reporter Bonnie Bernstein, saying, "I could give a (bleep) about Carolina right now" when she asked about his future plans after his 2003 national title-game loss. Maybe it was the Kansas button he wore last year, a weird show of allegiance for an ex-employer in the championship game after the Jayhawks had whipped his Tar Heels. Or maybe America simply is growing weary of North Carolina, the powder bluebloods who dominate April like azaleas at Augusta and fools on the ...
Plenty of Motivation for Spartans, Heels
By Kevin Blackistone - AOL NewsDETROIT -- Somewhere on the Road to the Final Four, which once it finally gets to this championship round is called The Road Ends Here, should have been some guys holding placards that read: "Hooping for a Cause."They should've been wearing Michigan State green and North Carolina blue. They should've been Spartans and Tar Heels led by Tom Izzo and Roy Williams. They should've been the two teams that survived to Monday night's title game.Most survivors to the championship game are motivated simply by the title of champion at the end of the journey. These two teams are as well. What They Have to ...
A Study in Opposites
By Ray Holloman - AOL NewsSomewhere in Michigan State's middle-class brand of Michigan hope and mixed martial basketball, and North Carolina's mechanized cavalry of an offensive attack, there may be a similarity or two lurking somewhere. But you've got about as good a chance of finding it as you do spotting an opposing fan in Ford Field's South Pacific of Spartan green.These two teams couldn't be more different if one of them came out in shoulder pads. And, with Tom Izzo, who invited Vikings' offensive line coach Pat Morris speak to his team before Saturday night's win, and whose teams always play like it's ...
Tough Carolina Digs Its Heels In
By Kevin B. Blackistone - AOL NewsDETROIT -- If you really think about it, to call the North Carolina basketball team Tar Heels has always been more of an oxymoron. Michael Jordan. Walter Davis. Bob McAdoo. Vince Carter. James Worthy. On and on. You think of them and you think smooth. You think finesse. You think of a pretty way of playing.It isn't that Jordan and Carter and lots of other North Carolina basketball players weren't tough, but you don't think of them as the 19th century North Carolinians who burned trees into black muck, or tar, that they then spread on the bottom of boats. You don't think of them as part of that ...
Tough Carolina Digs Its Heels In
By Kevin Blackistone - AOL NewsDETROIT -- If you really think about it, to call the North Carolina basketball team Tar Heels has always been more of an oxymoron. Michael Jordan. Walter Davis. Bob McAdoo. Vince Carter. James Worthy. On and on. You think of them and you think smooth. You think finesse. You think of a pretty way of playing.It isn't that Jordan and Carter and lots of other North Carolina basketball players weren't tough, but you don't think of them as the 19th century North Carolinians who burned trees into black muck, or tar, that they then spread on the bottom of boats. You don't think of them as part of that ...
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