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The Sunday Herald SUNDAY, AUGUST 22, 2010
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SUNDAY SPOTLIGHT: DRUGS IN LEE COUNTY
Prescription drug abuse an ‘epidemic’ Lee County sheriff, Rep. Love to fight for more law enforcement access to drugs database; county has backlog of arrests pending By BILLY LIGGETT bliggett@sanfordherald.com
SANFORD — The four Broadway teens arrested this week after an attempted prescription drug deal made headlines when one of those teens fell from a moving car and was hospitalized with critical head trauma. But the deal itself is something that’s become unfortunately all too common in Lee County, accord-
ing to Sheriff Tracy Carter, who says prescription drug arrests are making up for more than half of his total drug arrests this year. “It’s worse than crack cocaine,” Carter said Friday. “It’s just a problem ... and not just here, but everywhere. And we want to do all we can to investigate these folks who get the pills and distribute
SUNDAYQUICKREAD
See Pills, Page 9A
INSIDE Carter
Love
I’ll probably take heat for saying this, but ... it seems like it comes back to two or three of the same doctors just about every time.”
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— Lee County Sheriff Tracy Carter
We list the four most common types of abused prescription drugs, their short-term effects, their addictive qualities and the health risks they pose when abused. Page 9A
BACK TO SCHOOL: CLASSES START WEDNESDAY
SPORTS
CAVALIERS SHOW PROMISE IN SEASON-OPENING DEFEAT Even in a loss in the season-opener in which the Southern Lee Cavaliers never led and in fact allowed 50 points, Ashton Gaines’ Favreian Flip may still go down as the team’s play of the year Full Story, Page 1B
OUR STATE
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Rogelle Bailey (left), 16, and Farren Welch, 15, review their new class schedules standing in front of the major construction project on the campus of Lee County High School on Friday afternoon.
PROGRESS IS MESSY SBI AUDIT’S RESULTS PUTS PRESSURE ON AG ROY COOPER
LCHS students will deal with dozers, dirt when they return to school
A blistering report this week identifying how North Carolina’s state crime laboratory workers misrepresented blood evidence in dozens of cases over 16 years covered only two of Roy Cooper’s years as attorney general.
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Full Story, Page 4A
OUR NATION
ARIZONA MANHUNT ENDED WITHOUT BLOODSHED The self-styled “Bonnie and Clyde” team of escapee John McCluskey and girlfriend Casslyn Welch surrendered without bloodshed at a campsite in eastern Arizona. The prison escape spurred a three-week manhunt stretching from Arizona to Montana to Arkansas. Full Story, Page 10A
Vol. 80, No. 196 Serving Lee, Chatham, Harnett and Moore counties in the heart of North Carolina
By ALEXA MILAN
THIS WEEK Classes for all Lee County public and private schools begin this week, and all week long, The Herald will have you covered. From how students and parents are preparing for Day 1 to coverage of the first day of classes Wednesday, The Herald’s Alexa Milan will have “Back To School” reports each day this week. Read all stories online at www.sanfordherald.com.
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hen Lee County High School students return to school Wednesday, they’ll see a different campus than the one they left in June. Freshmen who are setting foot on high school grounds for the first time will be greeted by bulldozers and drills. Principal Greg Batten insists that the dirt-covered parking lots and sidewalks will be a little cleaner when students arrive. But with renovations to the school’s facilities well under way, construction is going to remain a fixture in Lee County High School students’ daily routines for the foreseeable future. “Basically one-third of our campus has been under renovations since the spring,” Batten said. “We’ll start the year with one-third of campus shut down.” For the first month of
THIS WEEK The Lee County Community Orchestra will begin rehearsals for the 2010-2011 concert season on Tuesday. Music director Tara Villa invites interested area musicians to join veteran players from 6:30 and 9 p.m. in the music rehearsal hall at Lee County High School. Call 776-4628. CALENDAR, PAGE 2A
A group of Lee County High School students discuss their new class schedules standing in front of construction equipment at Lee County High School on Friday afternoon. Classes on the under-renovation campus begin Wednesday. school, classes typically held in the New Shop building, Old Shop building and Agriculture building will resume in alternate locations while those buildings are renovated. The school has acquired two mobile pods with classroom space
to accommodate some of those classes. “We tried to keep those folks as close to where they would be as possible,” Batten said. “But by Oct. 1, they should be back in their classrooms.” After that date, construc-
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tion will continue on new structures, but renovations to existing buildings won’t resume until next summer. There will also be a few parking adjustments this year, as students will park in the lot near the cafeteria and baseball field and faculty and construction crew will use the lot by the football stadium and audi-
See Campus, Page 8A
INDEX
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OBITUARIES
STOP THE PRESSES
Sanford: Ralph Crump, 66; Woody Jackson, 28; Newlin Coffer, 72; Gary Newbauer, 50 Carthage: Philip Cagle, 41 Pittsboro: Lee Mann, 83
After 6 years at The Herald and even more in papers, Alex Podlogar is leaving
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