STUDENT PRESIDENT KILLED
Jurors get case in tyro body president death
HILLSBOROUGH, N.C. (AP) - The jury considering the fate of a man accused of killing the tyro body president at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has gone home after its first day of deliberations.
After 90 minutes of talks and one question, the jury in the trial of Laurence Lovette went home shortly after 5 p.m. Monday without reaching a verdict. The panel will return to resume delberations Tuesday morning.
In closing arguments, Orange County District Attorney Jim Woodall said which the evidence clearly shows Lovette robbed, kidnapped and shot Eve Carson on March 5, 2008.
Defense lawyers said the state's key witnesses had reasons to lie and suggested a DNA swab linking Lovette to Carson's SUV had been mishandled.
TIMES-REGIONAL NEWSPAPERS
NY Times in discussions to sell 16 regional papers
MIAMI (AP) - The New York Times Company says it's in advanced discussions to sell 16 regional newspapers and related businesses to Halifax Media Holdings.
The New York Times announced the development in a statement Monday.
It said publications involved in the discussions, among others, include the Sarasota Herald-Tribune in Sarasota, Fla.; The Press Democrat in Santa Rosa, Calif.; The Ledger in Lakeland, Fla.; Star-News in Wilmington, N.C.; Herald-Journal in Spartanburg, S.C.; The Gainesville Sun in Gainesville, Fla.; The Tuscaloosa News in Tuscaloosa, Ala., The Courier in Houma, La.
Halifax, based in Daytona Beach, Fla., was created around the time it purchased The Daytona Beach News-Journal in 2010. Its investors include Stephens Capital and others including Michael Redding, chief executive officer and publisher of the News-Journal. It had no immediate comment.
! MEDICAID FRAUD
NC AG says 18 charged in Medicaid fraud busts
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) - Thirteen home health workers, a speech therapist and the operator of a group home face charges which they defrauded North Carolina's Medicaid system and the taxpayers who support it.
The state Justice Department said Monday which 18 people in ten counties were arrested last week at the start of a statewide sweep aimed at cracking down on people suspected of cheating the health program for the poor and disabled.
Attorney General Roy Cooper says more suspects are expected to be arrested soon.
Authorities allege the suspects took in more than $500,000 in fraudulent payments.
A Guilford County man allegedly gave false information when applying to be a Medicaid home-care provider and billing more than $200,000 for services to dead recipients.
REDISTRICTING
NC judges set redistricting hearing next month
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) - A three-judge panel hearing redistricting lawsuits has declined to order a fast-track trial schedule sought by those challenging the new boundaries for North Carolina General Assembly and congressional seats. But a key hearing date has been set for next month.
The three judges filed an order Monday for hearing tentatively set for Jan. 12 to listen to motions by the state and Legislature to ask the cases be thrown out.
Attorneys for Democratic elected officials and advocacy groups asked the judges last Friday in court to set the trial for Feb. 2 because they said it would bring less intrusion to the 2012 elections. 1 of the judges called which schedule extraordinary.
The plaintiffs aren't prevented from asking the judges to block the maps' use while the case is litigated.
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