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Most folks in and around Chapel Hill are outraged that Williamson may collect a quarter of a million dollars for each person he killed. "Is there any crime you can commit these days and manage to be blamed for?" Wanda Jackson wrote in a scathing letter to the Raleigh News & Observer. But several jurors in the civil trial have become ardent advocates for better treatment of the mentally ill and visit Williamson at the mental hospital where he is confined. And other townspeople sympathize with Williamson as a promising young man who somehow spiraled into madness...
...residential service, many carriers are expected to shift their home DSL efforts into a higher gear. US West already offers consumers DSL service in more than a dozen states, for example, and BellSouth says it will begin rolling out DSL service to consumers in Atlanta; Fort Lauderdale, Fla.; Raleigh, N.C.; and four other Southeastern cities before the end of this year. Many of these services will offer less than full-throttle speeds and cost $60 or more a month, but they still spell relief from today's World Wide Wait...
...always is a hand extended by Duke so welcome in Durham. Earlier this year, when Duke announced plans to acquire Durham Regional Hospital and nearby Raleigh Community Hospital, many in the area were suspicious of its motives. They feared, not without cause, that Duke was trying to take complete control of health care in the region by buying up all the competition. A major worry was that Duke would then jack up prices, as any monopoly would...
There's a scary moment during tonight's WCW Thunder wrestling program: a referee collapses and is rushed to the hospital. He's not part of the show. He's a football ref, and he's in a commercial touting University of North Carolina Health Care. Channel surf in Raleigh-Durham and you can see an artsy black-and-white ad featuring a country singer who doesn't have the usual complaints of "heartbreak"--brought to you by the WakeMed hospital's new Heart Center in Raleigh. Or a Duke ad--the sort of tasteful, care-focused spot...
...normal year, politicians would scramble to be seen with a President whose job-approval ratings have remained over 60%. But in Raleigh, N.C., Democratic freshman Bob Etheridge proudly boasts that Tipper Gore will be appearing at a fund raiser for him this week and grows evasive when asked whether he'd like a similar favor from the Commander in Chief. "I ran my own campaign last time, and we plan to do the same thing this time," he says. His reluctance is understandable, given the fact that Etheridge recently became the first Democrat to be the target of a television...