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Reade Seligmann, who along with former teammates Collin Finnerty and David Evans saw the rape charges stemming from an incident at a Durham strip club dropped in late December, has plans to apply to Harvard as a transfer student...
DIED. Maureen Orcutt, 99, who played on four U.S. Curtis Cup teams and won more than 60 amateur golf championships, raising the profile of the women's sport during the 1930s, when no professional tour for women existed; in Durham, N.C. A World Golf Hall of Famer, she later wrote a column on golf for the New York Times, in which, as one of the nation's first female sportswriters, she tirelessly promoted the women's game...
...students at Duke University were still adjusting to life back on campus after the winter break but that didn't stop them from spreading the news on Friday afternoon: Durham County D.A. Mike Nifong had just asked the North Carolina Attorney General's office to remove him from the case against three members of the school's lacrosse team. The information went out via instant messages, phone texts, e-mail and old-fashioned word of mouth. Duke, of course, is not a neutral spectator in the controversy. Several students have gone around wearing wristbands that declare "INNOCENT...
...that the North Carolina State Bar has filed a 17-page, 41-count ethics complaint against District Attorney Michael Nifong's handling of the Duke rape case, there's a different kind of New Year's countdown taking place in Durham: when and under what circumstances will Nifong leave office...
...large amounts of money he will lose his license over this," says one Durham attorney involved in the case. "He should quit, and it's entirely possible he'll dismiss all of the remaining charges before then. We see where this speeding train is heading. " The attorney stressed that the three players do not yet feel totally vindicated, since dropping the rape charges "actually makes the state's case easier...