THE HERALD WISHES YOU A HAPPY AND SAFE MEMORIAL DAY WEEKEND
The Sunday Herald SUNDAY, MAY 30, 2010
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BEACH BUMMED Lee County baseball team runs out of gas in Game 3 East Regional Finals in Wilmington THE MAGIC ENDS
A BRIGHT FUTURE
The magical run that the Lee County Yellow Jackets built over the last month came to an end in Game 3 of the best-of-three East Regional Final series Saturday. Page 1B
SUNDAYQUICKREAD
Eight seniors might be gone, but the main nucleus of the Lee County Yellow Jackets will be back in 2011. The Yellow Jackets could be even better next season. Page 1B
FORT BRAGG
SANFORD
3 die in crash; driver missing
CAROLINA
Police say car going too fast at Spring Lane exit
N.C. ZOO’S NEWEST ATTRACTION FEATURES ANCIENT PRIMATES Lemur Island, featuring eight of the playful prosimians, opens to the public today. Six ring-tailed and two red-ruffed lemurs occupy a space that last housed Patas monkeys and, before that, baboons.
By BILLY BALL bball@sanfordherald.com
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James Woolley (right) receives the Silver Star medal, the military service’s most prestigious award for heroic efforts or acts in the line of duty from U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates.
OBITUARY
TRUE HERO LEGENDARY ACTOR, KNOWN ‘WILD MAN’ DENNIS HOPPER DIES AT 74 Dennis Hopper, the high-flying Hollywood wild man whose memorable and erratic career included an early turn in “Rebel Without a Cause,” an improbable smash with “Easy Rider” and a classic character role in “Blue Velvet,” has died. He was 74. Full Story, Page 13A
OIL SPILL BP’S ‘TOP KILL’ METHOD GOES DOWN AS ANOTHER FAILURE BP has failed in its latest attempt to plug the oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico with mud and cement, the company said Saturday. BP Chief Operating Officer Doug Suttles said the company determined the “top kill” method had failed after studying it for three days. Full Story, Page 10A
Western Harnett grad receives military’s third highest honor for saving five wounded soldiers
By BILLY BALL bball@sanfordherald.com
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ames Woolley’s worst day in combat was three years ago today. Woolley was flying a helicopter in south Afghanistan behind his buddies, a crew of five Army soldiers traveling in another Chinook chopper. Ground fire struck the Chinook and the aircraft went down as Woolley watched helplessly. All five crew members and a Canadian combat cameraman were killed. “That was really bad,” Woolley said Saturday from
■ A Memorial Day service will be held at 11 a.m. Monday at Veteran’s Park inside Carolina Lakes Gated Community. ■ Disabled American Veterans Chapter 5 will host a service beginning at 11 a.m. Monday at the N.C. Veterans Memorial in Broadway. ■ The Town of Goldston will host its service from 6 to 7 p.m. Monday at the Goldston Veterans Memorial. ■ The Johnsonville Ruritan Club will sponsor an observance at 11:30 a.m. Monday at the Johnsonville Veteran’s Memorial located at the N.C. 24/27 intersection.
Need for CUOC still growing
INSURANCE COMPANY’S PLAN TO OUTSOURCE DRAWS CRITICISM
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A plan by a North Carolina health insurance company to test outsourcing some of its data management work is drawing criticism from people who say the company shouldn’t be sending jobs overseas, a newspaper reported Saturday.
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Teresa Dew Executive Director, CUOC in Lee County
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Serving Lee, Chatham, Harnett and Moore counties in the heart of North Carolina
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MEMORIAL DAY EVENTS
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SANFORD
E-mail scam turns local artist’s life upside-down By BILLY LIGGETT bliggett@sanfordherald.com
OUR STATE
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his home in Sanford. “It rocked our unit real bad, down to the core.” Woolley, 32, will remember his buddies today, one day before Memorial Day. But that might not be Woolley’s most harrowing day in Afghanistan. Woolley grew up in the area and graduated from Western Harnett High School in Lillington in 1995. Today, he lives with his wife Christen and has more family in the Sanford area. He recalled one hastilyarranged rescue mission that
SANFORD — Three cousins are dead and another man is missing following a deadly automobile crash early Saturday in Sanford. According to Sanford police, the men died after their truck exited Jefferson Davis Highway, or U.S. 1, near Spring Lane and overturned on an embankment, rolling to a stop on nearby Douglas Drive around 1:30 a.m. Saturday. Killed in the crash were 25-year-old Edwin Perez Hernandez, 34-year-old Claudia Baudililo Hernandez and 26-year-old
THIS WEEK A groundbreaking ceremony will begin at 3 p.m. Thursday to mark the beginning of construction for renovations at Lee County High School. Work is underway on the more than $20-million project to improve conditions at the high school. CALENDAR, PAGE 2A
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his week, we Take 5 with Teresa Herring Dew, the executive director of the Christians United Outreach Center of Lee County. A Sanford native, Dew was married to her high school sweetheart, Ricky Dew, for 28 years until his death three years ago. She has two grown sons. She’s been a member of the Sanford First Pentecostal Holiness Church for more
than 40 years, where she serves as secretary and treasurer. The first woman member Dew and board member of the Sanford Lions Club, Dew now serves on the
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High: 90 Low: 68
SANFORD — It was a nightmare of a vacation for Sanford artist Beverly Brookshire. Her purse, cash and credit cards stolen at gunpoint, Brookshire was stuck in London, and only by e-mail was she able to reach her friends, family and fellow artists back home so they could wire her the money for a plane
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INDEX
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OBITUARIES
ON THE STREET
Sanford: William Whitaker, 70 Pittsboro: Mamie Cash, 88 Portsmouth, Va.: Worth Gilmore, 82
The Herald’s Jonathan Owens reports that Beazer Homes has property in new community
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Abby, Graham, Bridge, Sudoku............................. 8B Business .......................... 9B Classifieds ..................... 11B Sunday Crossword ............ 7C Community calendar .......... 2A Horoscope ........................ 6B Obituaries......................... 5A Opinion ..........................6-7A Scoreboard ....................... 5B