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The Sanford Herald TUESDAY, JUNE 22, 2010
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GOVERNMENT
Retail park zoning put off
SPORTS
A 491-acre project north of Sanford would be a mixed-use development By BILLY BALL bball@sanfordherald.com
SANFORD — Supporters stated their case Monday for a 491-acre rezoning that would pave the way for a major retail and industry development north of Sanford. The development, which
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would include19 tracts of land and several landowners, is in the works for land near Sanford’s current Industrial Park. Landowners want Lee County commissioners to rezone more than 60 acres for general commercial uses and 431 acres for light industrial.
The land is currently zoned for residential and agricultural purposes. One of those landowners, Raleigh real estate investor Steve Stroud, has described the planned development as a mixed-use center complete
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CENTRAL CAROLINA HOSPITAL
COMING WEDNESDAY The Lee County Board of Commissioners passed the 2010-2011 county budget Monday night. Read more about what’s in the approved budget plan in Wednesday’s edition of The Herald.
911 TAPE
The top five players on the final leaderboard of this year’s U.S. Open combined to make two birdies on the back nine.
Father warned son before he killed him
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NATION
Sheriff ’s office releases 911 call from Friday shooting
TIMES SQUARE BOMBER PLEADS GUILTY IN NYC
By ALEXA MILAN
Calling himself a “Muslim soldier,” a defiant Pakistanborn U.S. citizen pleaded guilty Monday to carrying out the failed Times Square car bombing, saying his attack was the answer to “the U.S. terrorizing ... Muslim people”
Smith was shot once in the lower leg and Bell was shot twice in the right leg and hip area, according to investigators. Both men were taken to UNC Hospital in Chapel Hill with injuries that were not lifethreatening.
SANFORD — A 911 tape released by the Lee County Sheriff’s Office on Monday reveals a heated argument between a Sanford man and his son that resulted in the son’s death. Neil Miller, 71, called the Lee County 911 dispatcher around 11:30 HEAR p.m. Friday THE TAPE to report Click on that a man this story was walking at sanfordaround his house at 4613 herald.com Carbonton to hear the Road. When 10-minute 911 the man call, edited spoke, he for explicit realized it was language. his son, Ricky Dean Miller. On the 911 tape, Ricky Miller, 48, is heard banging on the front door and yelling, though his words are inaudible. Neil Miller told investigators that his son was threatening him and he was afraid for his life. “(The son) was breaking down the door and telling him he was going to kill him,” Captain Jeff Johnson said. Neil Miller told investigators that his son kicked a panel out of the door in an attempt to gain entry into the home, which can be heard on the 911 recording. Neil Miller told the 911 dispatcher that his son had just kicked through the door and that he thought his son was drunk. After Ricky Miller kicked through the door, Neil Miller yelled at him to “Go ahead and come in and I’ll blow your (expletive) head off.” Ricky Miller then yelled, “Why ain’t you going to let me in the (expletive) house.” Neil Miller
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NATION HIGH COURT UPHOLDS TERROR AID BAN
The Supreme Court upheld the government’s authority Monday to ban aid to designated terrorist groups, even when that support is intended to steer the groups toward peaceful and legal activities Page 10A
ENTERTAINMENT JACKSON’S KIDS AS NORMAL AS ANY A year after their father Michael Jackson’s death, Prince, Paris and Blanket Jackson are normal kids full of fun and pranks, devoted to each other and to their grandmother Page 9A
STATE
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Teen volunteer Marinda Carraway (right) helps a patient with her meal selection at Carolina Central Hospital on Monday afternoon.
MDs in training Ten teens from local high schools taking part in volunteer program at CCH to learn the ropes Special to The Herald
SANFORD — It’s not quite “Doogie Howser, M.D.,” but if you’re at Central Carolina Hospital this summer, expect to see some teenagers walking the halls alongside the doctors, nurses and other hospital staff. Although these teens won’t be treating patients, they’ll be very much a part of the hospital’s operations. In all, 10 teenagers from Lee County and Southern Lee high schools will spend eight weeks of the summer volunteering
at the hospital as part of CCH a program which seeks to educate young people about the health care field. Anita Gandhi, a 15-year-old from Southern Lee who will move on to the North Carolina School of Science and Math in the fall, is one of those teens. She said she grew up with her parents regularly telling her she’d be a doctor one day, and the idea stuck with her. “It just stayed in my head,”
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It’s good for the hospital because we get help with our day-to-day operations, but the students get the experience. It could help them get into the college they want because they’ve already volunteered in the area they have an interest in.”
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— CRYSTAL HICKMAN — CCH Director of Volunteer Service
CRIME
Shooting on Woodland leaves 1 dead Sanford Police: 23-year-old man killed, two others injured
SENATE TO DECIDE FATE OF SWEEPSTAKES The full Senate is scheduled to vote on a measure that could put video sweepstakes stores out of business Dec. 1 Page 7A
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Vol. 80, No. 144 Serving Lee, Chatham, Harnett and Moore counties in the heart of North Carolina
By BILLY BALL bball@sanfordherald.com
SANFORD — One man was killed and two others injured in an early Sunday shooting in Sanford, police say. The Sanford Police Department reported that 23-year-old Joshua Levon Buie of Sanford was pronounced dead at Central Carolina Hospital Sunday
ON WEDNESDAY n Central Carolina Community College’s Continuing Education Office in Chatham County hosts its 2010 Healthcare Career Fair, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., Building 2 Multipurpose Room, Chatham County Campus, 764 West St. Admission and information is free.
morning. He had been shot at least once in the chest during an incident on Woodland Avenue, investigators say. Police also say that Marlin Smith and David Bell, both 23-year-old men from Sanford, were wounded in the same shooting, which occurred sometime before it was reported around 3:19 a.m. Sunday.
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OBITUARIES
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Sanford: Joshua Buie, 23; Rev. William Gorham, 77; Mary Jenkins, 71; Raymond Mann Jr., 94; Mary McLean, 70; Vonnie Thomas, 75
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