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The Sunday Herald SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 2010
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INVESTIGATION
CRIME
SATELLITE PIRATING SUIT FROM ‘03 AGAINST HOUSE CANDIDATE SURFACES
Charges in historic district break-ins
Court documents: Sanford mayor pro tem was ordered to pay DirecTV $10K By BILLY BALL bball@sanfordherald.com
SANFORD — City Councilman and N.C. House of Representatives candidate Mike Stone was entangled in a 2003 illegal pirating suit brought by satellite television giant DirecTV, recently surfaced court documents indicate. According to a 2003 DirecTV complaint filed in U.S. District
Court, Stone was one of a handful of defendants named in a lawsuit alleging the “possession and use of Stone illegal devices and equipment designed to intercept and decrypt DirecTV’s protected satellite communications, ultimately
allowing for the free viewing of television programming.” The complaint accused Stone of using interstate or foreign wire facilities to order and receive pirating devices in December 2000, including a machine that assisted in “permitting the illegal programming of valid DirecTV access devices.” It also suggested Stone and the other defendants “distributed ... the devices purchased and ... profited from their
enterprise.” Records show that a 2006 court judgment ordered Stone to pay the satellite network $10,000 in damages, in addition to another $780 in fees for costs and attorney bills stemming from the case after he failed to respond to court allegations within the allotted time. According to Stone, owner of
See Stone, Page 5A
LEE REGIONAL FAIR: SEPT. 14-19
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SEE THE PAGEANT CONTESTANTS
FAIR SCHEDULE
For the second consecutive year, The Herald will have ride and food reviews, fair videos, photo galleries and much more at its Lee Regional Fair blog, accessible through its website. If you’re interested in contributing this year as a blogger, contact Billy Liggett at bliggett@sanfordherald.com.
See who the candidates are for this year’s Miss Lee Regional Fair inside our Carolina section today. The pageants for grades 1 through 8 will begin Tuesday, and the Miss and Junior Miss pageants are scheduled for Tuesday night. Contestants, Page 2C
Watch for Tuesday’s Herald for a complete schedule of this year’s awardwinning Lee Regional Fair. You can also access a complete schedule of events at our Fair blog, accessible through sanfordherald.com. The Fair begins Tuesday and runs through Sunday.
SPORTS
Sanford PD targets neighborhood after complaints about rash of thefts By BILLY BALL bball@sanfordherald.com
SANFORD — Sanford police say they have arrested a handful of locals suspected of orchestrating a rash of break-ins in the Rosemount-McIver historic district in recent weeks. Investigators said George Ernest Owens Jr., 25, of 211 Temple Ave., is being charged with robbing homes on Steele Street and Bracken Street last month. Two more locals — Timothy Owens Santegus McKendall, 29, of 136 E. Chisholm St., Apartment 2; and a 16-yearold Broadway teen — were also McKendall arrested for possessing electronic equipment and video gaming devices believed to have been stolen. The arrests came days after a Herald article about a neighborhood watch meeting formed because of a recent rash of breakins. According to resident Kathy Caroll, drug dealers, prostitutes and transients have long been apparent in the neighborhood, but the recent home robberies became too much. “It just seems really
See Break-ins, Page 5A
SEPTEMBER 11: NINE YEARS LATER
Service honored at 9-11 prayer breakfast By JENNIFER GENTILE jgentile@sanfordherald.com
OFFENSES SHINE AS WAKE FOREST HOLDS OFF DUKE ON GRIDIRON Backup Tanner Price threw three touchdown passes and ran for another, and the Wake Forest Demon Deacons held off the Duke Blue Devils 54-48 on Saturday for its 11th straight victory in the series Full Story, Page 1B
Vol. 80, No. 213 Serving Lee, Chatham, Harnett and Moore counties in the heart of North Carolina
SANFORD — Within 90 days of the Sept. 11 attacks, Maj. Sherry Lynn Womack was on a plane bound for Afghanistan. For her husband, Jim, her deployment came as no surprise. He called Sherry, a military medical professional, after witnessing the attack on New York and made an educated prediction.
HAPPENING TUESDAY The Heart of Carolina chapter of the American Needlepoint Guild will begin its 2010-11 year at 10 a.m. Tuesday with a meeting at St. Luke Methodist Church. For more information, contact Linda at (919) 718-4994. CALENDAR, PAGE 2A
“I think the words were, ‘Your life has been changed forever,’” he recalled. Sherry went on to earn the Bronze Star for missions in both Afghanistan and Iraq, where she served as a physician’s assistant in the Army. Being called away to war, she acknowledged, “is hard on the family.” “It makes you appreciate what you’ve got at home,”
See Service, Page 8A
JENNIFER GENTILE/The Sanford Herald
U.S. Army Maj. Sherry Lynn Womack, center, chats with Chad McGraft (left) and former Sanford mayor Rex McLeod (right) during a prayer breakfast Saturday at Sanford VFW Post 5631, which was held to commemorate Sept. 11.
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INDEX
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OBITUARIES
BILLY LIGGETT
Sanford: Henry Stovall, 76; John Corbin; James Smith, 70 Angier: Mary Batchelor, 93 Carthage: Lillian Forbes, 93
Blogger known for attacks on political figures went too far with photo of Herald reporter
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