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The Sunday Herald SUNDAY, MAY 16, 2010
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W RECK ON U.S. 1 CLAIMS TWO LIVES
Tragedy strikes LCHS Popular student killed after colliding with car stopped in wrong lane By BILLY LIGGETT and JONATHAN OWENS The Sanford Herald
‘GENERAL KAGAN’ HOLDS HER OWN BEFORE HIGH COURT
SANFORD — Two men — one a 17-year-old Lee County High School student — were killed in a collision on U.S. 1 near Wicker Street Extension Friday night.
The U.S. Supreme Court can be an intimidating setting for any lawyer, but the venue was all the more daunting for Obama nominee Elena Kagan because her courtroom experience before appearing before the justices was exactly nil
According to a report from the Sanford Police Department, Joshua Dean Britt, a junior at LCHS, and Anthony Newell Boswell, 48, of Sanford, each died at the scene. In the report, a witness told officers Boswell’s 1998 Mercury was stopped in the northbound lane of U.S. 1 facing south
with no lights on when Britt, driving a 1999 Ford at 65 MPH, hit him head on at 10:53 p.m. Friday. Police suspect Boswell was under the influence of drugs or alcohol. The crash is still under investigation. There were no other pas-
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Britt
SUNDAY SPOTLIGHT: RELAY FOR LIFE
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BUSINESS
SANFORD NATIVE HONORED FOR LEADERSHIP IN NORTH CAROLINA Sanford native David L. Clegg received one of Leadership North Carolina’s highest honors — the L. Richardson Preyer Alumni Award — during the LNC graduation ceremony in the Old House Chamber of the N.C. Capitol on Thursday Page 7B
CAROLINA
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Candi Adcock, seen here at the Relay for Life event at the Lee County Fairgrounds Friday night, was diagnosed at the age of 35 with breast cancer and has been in remission for 17 years.
‘You have to have humor’ Sanford woman says positive attitude helped her beat breast cancer GREENSBORO TODDLER THE POSTERBOY FOR ST. BALDRICK’S Four-year-old Khalid Amos was named this year as one of St. Baldrick’s Foundation’s five International Child Ambassadors Page 1C
STATE JUDGE GIVES GREEN-LIGHT TO NEIGHBORHOOD SCHOOLS North Carolina’s largest school district is set to give final approval next week to a plan to end its busing for diversity program after a judge dismissed a lawsuit seeking to block the move
By BILLY BALL bball@sanfordherald.com
SANFORD — For Candi Adcock, laughter was the best medicine. The year was 1994 and Adcock, a Sanford native, had just been diagnosed with an extremely aggressive form of breast cancer at the age of 35. One session of chemotherapy later and Adcock, who was known for her
long, Farrah Fawcett-style cut, was completely bald. She still remembers the look of shock on her thenteenaged son’s face when he saw her smooth scalp for the first time. “I said to him, ‘Do you reckon I could get a job with Sinead O’Connor?’” Adcock said. “He just died laughing and it broke the ice.” Then there was the longtime friend who, in a moment of absent-mind-
ATLANTIS’ FINAL MISSION HITS A SNAG ON FIRST DAY
From staff reports
A snagged cable forced Atlantis’ astronauts to resort to a more inconvenient and less comprehensive method of inspecting their space shuttle Saturday as they sped toward a weekend rendezvous with the International Space Station Page 11A ASHLEY GARNER/The Sanford Herald
Serving Lee, Chatham, Harnett and Moore counties in the heart of North Carolina
See Cancer, Page 3A
Etheridge to visit STEM lab Monday
SPACE SHUTTLE
TO INFORM, CHALLENGE AND CELEBRATE
radiation treatments. Adcock, a longtime athlete who had never faced a serious illness in her life, wasn’t going to let it get her down. “You have to have a good attitude,” she said. “And realize that the word cancer is not a death sentence. Every day they are making leaps and bounds in terms of developing a cure.”
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OLD MILL CRANK-UP
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edness, commented one day on how nice Adcock’s hair looked. One problem, Adcock was wearing a wig at the time. “I laughed and said, ‘I’ll let you wear it when I’m through,’” Adcock said. That was the spirit Adcock carried with her throughout her ordeal with cancer, even when doctors removed a breast during a mastectomy and she became gravely ill during the
Walter Clarey hammers away to make hooks during the Old Mill Crank-Up on Saturday. For more from the event, turn to Page 4A.
HAPPENING TODAY The final show of Temple Theatre’s final production of the 2009-2010 season, Rodgers and Hammerstein’s “South Pacific,” starts at 2 p.m. For tickets, call (919) 774-4155 or visit www. templeshows.com. CALENDAR, PAGE 2A
SANFORD — U.S. Rep. Bob Etheridge (D-Lillington) will visit East Lee Middle School on Monday to see first-hand the school’s state-of-the-art science lab in action. Etheridge will be at the school at 1 p.m. Monday to highlight the successes of schools designated as
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Science Technology, Engineering and Mathematics schools, also known as the STEM lab. Sanford’s East Lee Middle School is distinguished statewide as North Carolina’s first STEM middle school, a joint venture between Lee County Schools and
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INDEX
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OBITUARIES
‘ON THE STREET’
Sanford: Josh Britt, 17; Brenda McLean, 45; Naomi Siler; Rachel Taylor Broadway: Larry Sykes, 58
The Fairview Dairy Bar will reopen on Tuesday with new owners. Well, sort of new.
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