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The Sanford Herald FRIDAY, MAY 28, 2010
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Coach suspended after scuffle Director says little league coach out for season after fight with parent By BILLY BALL bball@sanfordherald.com
SANFORD — Lee County Parks and Recreation has suspended a local baseball coach after he scuffled with a fiery parent from an opposing team
last week. Parks and Recreation Director John Payne said the assistant coach, who he declined to identify, was told he could not coach for the rest of the season and banned from attending games against the
western Harnett County team that was on hand May 18. Payne said a coach of one of Lee County’s two teams for 13- to 14-year-old players became embroiled in a shouting match with an “obnoxious” parent from the opposing
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Harnett County team before beginning a “minor scuffle.” The argument came during an unofficial scrimmage between the teams at Tramway Road Park.
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CRIME
LEE COUNTY IS BEACH BOUND WITH FINALS BERTH ON THE LINE
2 charged for drugs were here illegally
The Yellow Jackets (16-10) will battle Wilmington Laney in a best-of-three series. The first game of the series will begin at 7 p.m. Friday in Wilmington. Game two is tentatively scheduled for noon on Saturday, with the third game, if necessary, being played 30 minutes after the second. All three games will take place at Laney.
Sheriff says county has deported 30 immigrants in the past two years
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GULF OIL SPILL
By BILLY BALL bball@sanfordherald.com
RIG LEAK SURPASSES EXXON VALDEZ AS WORST As BP labored for a second day Thursday to choke off the leak at the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico, dire new government estimates showed the disaster has easily eclipsed the Exxon Valdez as the biggest oil spill in U.S. history Page 8A
IMMIGRATION FENCE ISN’T A CURE-ALL FOR BORDER PROBLEMS The fence rises from the rock and hardscrabble of the desert floor, a formidable 15-foot-high curtain of corrugated metal that stretches into the mirage of heat and distance. Newer sections feature 20-foot high steel columns, deeply planted, narrowly spaced, so no human slips between. Page 12A
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Central Carolina Community College instructor Bill Freeman stands on the school’s new radio tower than allows its station, WDCC 90.5 FM, further reach into neighboring counties.
STANDING TALL College doubles its reach with new radio tower
STATE BUDGET WOULD CAUSE 1,700 UNC JOB CUTS
By BILLY LIGGETT
More public school teachers would be protected from layoffs and the University of North Carolina system would take a bigger financial hit under a House budget plan approved Thursday by a key committee that diverges from a spending proposal offers by the Senate
SANFORD — Justin Bullock loves to talk about racing. A native of Fuquay-Varina, Bullock found the perfect outlet to do this when he joined the radio/television program as a student at Central Carolina Community College. It wasn’t long until he had his own show, which he called “Full Throttle,” at the college’s FM station, WDCC 90.5. There was only one prob-
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TO INFORM, CHALLENGE AND CELEBRATE
Vol. 80, No. 124 Serving Lee, Chatham, Harnett and Moore counties in the heart of North Carolina
bliggett@sanfordherald.com
HAPPENING TODAY n Lee County Gymnastics will be registering from 3 to 6 p.m. at 221 Commercial Court (behind Sagebrush). For girls and boys ages Toddler and up. For more information, call 774-6445.
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ONLINE Learn more about WDCC and Central Carolina Community College’s radio/ television program online at www.wdccfm.com.
lem, though. Bullock’s friends — those who’ve supported him and those who’ve hung out at the track with him over the years — couldn’t hear his show. In fact, Bullock couldn’t hear his station at home, save for one room in the house
that miraculously picked up 90.5 at times. Until now, that is. Fuquay, Cary, Chapel Hill, Apex, Lillington, Siler City, Southern Pines and a few other surrounding cities can now hear what the college has to offer thanks to a new tower which went live on May 20. The expanded reach means students can hear their peers outside of the county limits now, and for students like Bullock, the
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BROADWAY — Lee County deputies say they arrested a pair of illegal immigrants Tuesday on drug charges. The men, 20-year-old Elias Madrano and 21-year-old Giovanni Mondragon, were both residing at 469 Cozy Hollow Lane in Broadway, but are not legal American citizens, according to the Lee County Sheriff’s Office. Investigators searched the Broadway home Tuesday and found 7 grams of coMadrano caine, 10 grams of marijuana, stolen power tools and various drug paraphernalia including packaging and scales, the Sheriff’s Office Mondragon said. Madrano and Mondragon were both charged with possession with intent to sell cocaine, possession with intent to sell marijuana, maintaining a dwelling to store drugs, possession of drug paraphernalia and possession of stolen property. Both are being held in Lee County Jail under a $20,000 secured bond. Lee County Sheriff Tracy Carter said his office typically notifies U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement of any illegal immigrants arrested, at which point individuals are usually detained or deported. Carter said many of the cocaine cases his office has
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INDEX
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OBITUARIES
SCOTT MOONEYHAM
Sanford: Mary Vandermark Carthage: Geneva McCadney, 89 Lillington: Alice Stout, 84 Pittsboro: Jack Shaner Sr., 77
The state GOP’s decision to beat up on one of their own is an odd choice
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