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Try as we might to personally distance ourselves from the stories we read on the air, some cut through the emotional armor and grab us by the heart.

So Sarah Palin has gone rogue. At least that's what the title of her book suggests. Or so I'm told. I haven't read it and don't plan to.

I've always been fascinated by Civil War History. Maybe it's the abundance of historic sites here in the Carolinas.

I fell off a ladder Sunday.
About a 12 foot plunge.
It’s amazing how many thoughts you can process in the time it takes to hit the ground.

It may be 2009, but it feels more like the 1970's. Bell-bottoms are making a comeback, the economy it tight, and gas prices are a constant concern.

I do think the skin on my hands is about to shrivel up and perhaps fall off.
I haven’t washed my hands this much since kindergarten.
Call it flu phobia.

Election Day 2009 is just a little more than two weeks away.
Surprised?
After last year’s high profile barn burner of an affair, the election of 2009 is a relative yawner.

I used to laugh at my Aunt Pat when she told me the first thing she looked at when our weekly hometown paper arrived in the mail was the obituaries.

For local meteorologists, October is sometimes called "the dull month". I guess it's understandable.

Friends of horace carter are gathering this evening... not at a funeral home... but at the offices of his newspaper in Tabor City.
It's only fitting.

9:12 To sum up, the president said a lot of what he's already said. It will be interesting to see if it has an impact.

By now you surely know of the controversy surrounding President Obama's speech Tuesday to school kids across the country.

The first time I ever saw Ted Kennedy in person I was completely shocked.

It can't have happened. Not 32 days after we lost Walter Cronkite.

Over the weekend President Barack Obama started doing something I've been saying for a couple of weeks he should have done in the first place.