AP Wire News en-us Sun, 21 Mar 2010 07:20:15 GMT Sun, 21 Mar 2010 07:20:15 GMT 5 iNEWS AP Wire Story Listing Generator http://www.wlos.com/template/inews_wire/wires.regional.nc/2d9d0177-www.wlos.com.shtml LUMBERTON, N.C. (AP) -- North Carolina officials say a probation officer has been fired after she was charged with several crimes, including unlawfully having sex with someone on probation. AP News www.wlos.com-2d9d0177 http://www.wlos.com/template/inews_wire/wires.regional.nc/3f9d0079-www.wlos.com.shtml JEFFERSON, N.C. (AP) -- Police say a North Carolina woman was killed by her boyfriend who then killed himself. AP News www.wlos.com-3f9d0079 http://www.wlos.com/template/inews_wire/wires.regional.nc/259cfff5-www.wlos.com.shtml WILMINGTON, N.C. (AP) -- Officials in a North Carolina coastal town hope a former strip club can find new life as a branch campus of a community college. AP News www.wlos.com-259cfff5 http://www.wlos.com/template/inews_wire/wires.regional.nc/239cff19-www.wlos.com.shtml CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) -- Discontent is surging among some black advocates over President Barack Obama's refusal to target rising black unemployment, but many black residents in Charlotte, N.C., say they support his racially neutral approach to joblessness. AP News www.wlos.com-239cff19 http://www.wlos.com/template/inews_wire/wires.regional.nc/309cff09-www.wlos.com.shtml DURHAM, N.C. (AP) -- Students at the North Carolina School of Science and Math are trying to break the record for most food collected in a 24-hour period. AP News www.wlos.com-309cff09 http://www.wlos.com/template/inews_wire/wires.regional.nc/279cfe95-www.wlos.com.shtml CHAPEL HILL, N.C. (AP) -- Two people have been found dead after a fire at a North Carolina duplex. AP News www.wlos.com-279cfe95 http://www.wlos.com/template/inews_wire/wires.regional.nc/259cfe57-www.wlos.com.shtml CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) -- Residents in North Carolina's largest city are donating what they can to try to shore up a $2 million shortfall in their local library's budget. AP News www.wlos.com-259cfe57 http://www.wlos.com/template/inews_wire/wires.regional.nc/289cfe57-www.wlos.com.shtml MOBILE, Ala. (AP) -- Police say they have arrested a couple accused of robbing three banks in southwest Alabama. AP News www.wlos.com-289cfe57 http://www.wlos.com/template/inews_wire/wires.regional.nc/3f9cfe39-www.wlos.com.shtml RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) -- North Carolina Senate leader Marc Basnight's campaign received donations from the same people that Gov. Beverly Perdue decided she couldn't take money from because of questions about the legality of the contributions. AP News www.wlos.com-3f9cfe39 http://www.wlos.com/template/inews_wire/wires.regional.nc/3f9cfe23-www.wlos.com.shtml ATLANTA (AP) -- A new study finds that as one superbug seems to be fading as a threat in hospitals, another is on the rise. AP News www.wlos.com-3f9cfe23 http://www.wlos.com/template/inews_wire/wires.regional.nc/339cfde6-www.wlos.com.shtml NORFOLK, Va. (AP) -- The Navy's proposal to move a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier from Norfolk to Florida is creating waves along the East Coast. AP News www.wlos.com-339cfde6 http://www.wlos.com/template/inews_wire/wires.regional.nc/319cfc4e-www.wlos.com.shtml KITTY HAWK, N.C. (AP) -- Some North Carolina real estate agents are trying to bring out the buyers by pointing out reduced-price beach homes available after foreclosure. AP News www.wlos.com-319cfc4e http://www.wlos.com/template/inews_wire/wires.regional.nc/2b9cfc45-www.wlos.com.shtml FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. (AP) -- North Carolina's Quaker House will mark the seventh anniversary of the war in Iraq with a peace vigil near Fort Bragg. AP News www.wlos.com-2b9cfc45 http://www.wlos.com/template/inews_wire/wires.regional.nc/299cfc35-www.wlos.com.shtml CAMP LEJEUNE, N.C. (AP) -- Wrestlers from across the military will compete at a North Carolina Marine base to determine which service is king on the mats. AP News www.wlos.com-299cfc35 http://www.wlos.com/template/inews_wire/wires.regional.nc/2a9cfc30-www.wlos.com.shtml FOUR OAKS, N.C. (AP) -- The Bentonville Battlefield is marking its 145th anniversary with a re-enactment of the only full-scale offensive to stop Union Gen. William T. Sherman's march north from Georgia. AP News www.wlos.com-2a9cfc30 http://www.wlos.com/template/inews_wire/wires.regional.nc/259cf9eb-www.wlos.com.shtml ST. IGNACE, Mich. (AP) -- A Midland County man has been sentenced to 15 to 22 1/2 years in prison after pleading guilty to driving into a group of people walking along an Upper Peninsula road, killing three women. AP News www.wlos.com-259cf9eb http://www.wlos.com/template/inews_wire/wires.regional.nc/2c9cf660-www.wlos.com.shtml WASHINGTON (AP) -- Regulators have shut down seven banks in five states, bringing to 37 the number of bank failures in the U.S. so far this year. AP News www.wlos.com-2c9cf660 http://www.wlos.com/template/inews_wire/wires.regional.nc/269cf503-www.wlos.com.shtml SCRANTON, Pa. (AP) -- A man accused of spraying lighter fluid near a teller during a bank robbery in the Poconos has been captured in North Carolina. AP News www.wlos.com-269cf503 http://www.wlos.com/template/inews_wire/wires.regional.nc/229cf449-www.wlos.com.shtml SANTA ANA, Calif. (AP) -- A North Carolina man who helped murder an Orange County fortuneteller and her daughter has been sentenced to 25 years to life in prison. AP News www.wlos.com-229cf449 http://www.wlos.com/template/inews_wire/wires.regional.nc/309cf1ef-www.wlos.com.shtml WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama is allowing thousands of Liberians living in the United States to remain in the country for an additional year and a half. AP News www.wlos.com-309cf1ef http://www.wlos.com/template/inews_wire/wires.regional.nc/319cf1ae-www.wlos.com.shtml ELON, N.C. (AP) -- A poll shows that North Carolinians are more aware of the state's laws about public access to government records, information and meetings than they were a year ago. AP News www.wlos.com-319cf1ae http://www.wlos.com/