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384 articles since 1999

Key Witness Offers Startling Account of Slaying of Sheriff

National | By Jeffrey Gettleman | June 27, 2002
The star witness of Georgia’s sheriff-killing-sheriff trial took the stand Wednesday and offered a chilling picture of what happened the night Derwin Brown was assassinated. Read more
 

Trial Linked to Hezbollah Casts Shadow

National | By Jeffrey Gettleman | June 25, 2002
With Al Jazeera blaring on TV, trays of baklava sweating on the countertops and pictures of Beirut beckoning from the walls, Cedarland Deli is Charlotte’s little window on the Middle East. Read more
 

Motherly Love’ Cited in Sons’ Deaths

National | By Jeffrey Gettleman | June 20, 2002
I believe y’all are looking for me,” were the first words out of Carol Carr’s mouth. Read more
 

Lust for Power Cited as Murder Motive

National | By Jeffrey Gettleman | June 18, 2002
Sidney Dorsey was a man poisoned by the power he held, prosecutors said Monday, and when that power was stripped away, he decided to kill to get it back. Read more
 

Plutonium Will Be Sent to S.C.

National | By Jeffrey Gettleman | June 14, 2002
A federal judge Thursday threw out South Carolina’s lawsuit to halt a massive plutonium shipment, clearing the path for 34 tons of radioactive material to begin arriving here as early as next week despite intense local resistance. Read more
 

Ice Hockey Is Smokin’ on Tobacco Road

National | By Jeffrey Gettleman | June 10, 2002
No, they don’t think icing is something you drag your finger through on a piece of cake. Read more
 

Attack May Be Tied to Autopsy, Police Say

National | By Jeffrey Gettleman | June 5, 2002
O.C. Smith, the medical examiner in Memphis, Tenn., is known for his contentious findings. Read more
 

Onion Harvest Is a Real Tear-Jerker

National | By Jeffrey Gettleman | June 4, 2002
A confused onion doesn’t taste good. Read more
 

A Nuclear Confrontation Shapes Up

National | By Jeffrey Gettleman | June 2, 2002
Imagine 12,000 pounds of bomb-grade plutonium, some of the most dangerous stuff on Earth, barreling down Interstate 20 in heavily fortified trucks. Read more
 

Tape of Klansmen Is Played at Trial

National | By Jeffrey Gettleman | May 16, 2002
There they were, three Klansmen–Bobby Frank Cherry, Thomas E. Blanton Jr., Mitchell Burns–driving around this angry city on a March night in 1965. Read more
 
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