crime watch
May 7
Officer Hunnicutt was dispatched to an apartment complex on Eatonton Highway in reference to a female subject going door-to-door asking for money to buy beer. Upon arrival, the officer was advised...
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May 5
Deputy Jones responded to Chapel Hill Circle to assist Deputy Bailey with an arrest warrant. The deputies found the offender in the crawlspace of the residence after being told by a third party th...
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May 6
Deputy Pounds noticed a vehicle traveling at a high rate of speed on Troutman Drive. The vehicle was traveling very erratically and failed to respond to the deputy’s lights. The deputy then initi...
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May 3
Sgt. Simpson was assisting with a license and insurance checkpoint on Highway 11, when a driver stated that she did not have her license or insurance card. Dispatch advised that the driver’s licen...
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May 4
Deputy Miller was dispatched to a gas station on Shurling Drive in reference to a possible fight. The complainant pointed the deputy to the offender who had attempted to start the fight. The offe...
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May 2
Deputy Hawke noticed a suspicious vehicle on Bethune Court. Dispatch advised that the vehicle’s tag was registered to a vehicle of a different make and model. After initiating a traffic stop, the...
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May 1
Sgt. Giltz responded to a gas station on West Clinton Street in reference to a gasoline drive-off. The complainant gave a partial description of a vehicle that left the station after its driver pu...
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national news

In this May 8, 2008, photo, Chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass., listens during a hearing on breast cancer in Washington. Kennedy was hospitalized in Boston, Saturday, May 17, 2008  (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)AP - Sen. Edward M. Kennedy was airlifted to a hospital Saturday after suffering a seizure at his home, and did not appear to have had a stroke as initially suspected, his spokeswoman said.


Sat May 17 11:56:56 -0700 2008

Residents of Lady of the Oaks Retirement Manor are evacuated Saturday May 17, 2008 after authorities issued a mandatory evacuation order for about 3,000 residents who live within a one-mile radius of an early morning train derailment in Lafayette. La. The train was leaking hydrochloric acid.(AP Photo/Lafayette Daily Advertiser/Brad Kemp)AP - Six rail cars derailed in southern Louisiana Saturday, causing a hydrochloric acid leak from two of the cars that forced police to evacuate thousands of residents within a 1-mile radius of the accident.


Sat May 17 11:28:49 -0700 2008

Ben Jealous, the newly elected president of the NAACP, makes remarks outside the NAACP headquarters in Baltimore, Saturday, May 17, 2008. Jealous, a 35-year-old former news executive and lifelong activist, is the youngest president in the NAACP's 99-year history. (AP Photo/Lawrence Jackson)AP - The NAACP chose 35-year-old activist and former news executive Ben Jealous as its president Saturday, making him the youngest leader in the 99-year history of the nation's largest civil rights organization.


Sat May 17 12:13:44 -0700 2008
AP - A man with a semiautomatic rifle opened fire at a festival outside a Southern California church Saturday, wounding three people, one of them critically, police said.
Sat May 17 12:16:56 -0700 2008