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NC sen. shoots intruder who is in fair condition
August 24, 2009 By The Associated Press
TABOR CITY, N.C. (AP) — A sheriff says a North Carolina state senator shot one of two intruders at his home and hospital officials say the man is in fair condition.
Multiple media outlets reported that Columbus County Sheriff Chris Batten said that 74-year-old Sen. R.C. Soles of Tabor City shot Kyle Blackburn late Sunday afternoon.
A spokeswoman at Loris Community Hospital in South Carolina said Monday that Blackburn was in fair condition.
Batten says the shooting occurred when two men went to the senator's house and tried to kick in his front door. No charges have been filed.
The sheriff's office said the State Bureau of Investigation was handling the case. A call to an agency spokeswoman was not immediately returned. There was no answer at a number listed for Soles' home.
The Democrat has been in the Senate 32 years.
On December 30, 2009, Soles (at the time, the longest-serving legislator in the state) announced he would not seek re-election in 2010. This came after an August, 2009 incident in which he shot a young man and former legal client in the leg who was allegedly trying to kick in Soles' front door. In another incident, Soles pepper sprayed a young man. Soles' lawyer, Joseph Cheshire, said the shooting was self-defense. Cheshire and Soles repeatedly have said that Soles has been generous to former clients in hoping to ease them back to a law-abiding life. Soles has denied having sexual relations with any of the young men.[1] Soles was indicted on charges of assault with a deadly weapon inflicting serious injury on 7 January, 2010.[2]
Robbery suspects shot dead by N.C. Pizza Hut worker
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The Associated Press
© September 28, 2010
CHARLOTTE, N.C.
Police say a North Carolina pizza restaurant worker being herded toward a cooler pulled a gun and shot and killed two robbers.
Multiple media outlets reported today that police were searching for a third man who got away from an east Charlotte Pizza Hut restaurant.
Authorities say the robbers burst through the restaurant's front door late Monday as two workers were cleaning up in the back.
Investigators say the suspects ordered the two employees into a walk-in cooler, then started beating one of the men. The other employee pulled a handgun and opened fire.
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HEARTLESS wrote: Its a felony to be in the US illegally, not quite the same.
Each year the Border Patrol is making more than a million apprehensions of people who flagrantly violate our nation's laws by unlawfully crossing U.S. borders to work and to receive publicly-funded services, often with the aid of fraudulent documents. Such entry is a misdemeanor and, if repeated, becomes punishable as a felony. Over eight million illegal immigrants live in the United States -- some estimate even more.
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GOP Leaders to Remove Felony Charges for Illegal Immigrants
Partisan tempers continue to flare after the top House and Senate Republicans pledged to fight against making "unlawful presence" of illegal immigrants in the U.S. a felony in the immigration reform bill now stalled in Congress.
But Republicans say the partisan vote isn't representative of their feelings toward the felony provision in the House bill. Democrats defeated a Republican-led amendment that would have removed the felony provision, and Republicans say Democrats did it so they could have a political issue to use against the GOP.
Rep. James Sensenbrenner, chief sponsor of the House bill and chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, has said the felony provision will be removed once the Senate finishes its bill and the two houses go into negotiations to complete work on the bill.
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