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Last Friday, Rockingham County Commonwealth’s Attorney Marsha L. Garst and more than a dozen police officers raided the James Madison University campus newspaper, The Breeze. They ordered the staff to turn over pictures taken at Springfest, an annual campus party that police broke up this year because it turned into a riot. On Friday, police entered The Breeze’s newsroom with a search warrant and threatened to seize all cameras, computers, and other documents unless the photos were turned over. Left with no choice but to hand over the photos, Breeze Editor-in-Chief Katie...
...point of solidarity where blacks and whites come together under the verdict: a mutual distrust of the American justice system. In an odd way, the trial's outcome has coupled the militant white right and disfranchised blacks in the belief that the same hand that planted the glove at Rockingham pulled the trigger at Ruby Ridge. While the Simpson trial wound down, Congress found itself incapable of producing the once surefire counterterrorism bill. It had been derailed by a coalition of conservative Republicans and civil libertarian Democrats concerned about giving broad new powers to law-enforcement officials...
...seat belt had torn apart, meaning he may have been thrown into the steering column. No one could ever recall a seat belt failing that way. In the aftermath, NASCAR determined that any new safety rules would not be hurried, and that the next week's race, in Rockingham, N.C., would be held as scheduled...
Today I'm sitting here on the infield in Rockingham, N.C., where we park our motor coaches. Dale parks next to me, always has. Now there's just an empty spot over there with a wreath laid over it. I'll always regret that I never got to say goodbye to Dale. In some ways, it took Daytona to make me realize how much he meant...
...tears. That Earnhardt was, by all accounts, not only a great racer but also a heck of a guy was flattering to the sport, and that he died on the track was in a grave way flattering to every driver who takes to the track this Sunday in Rockingham...