Articles Written by:    ESTES THOMPSON     

« Previous  |  Next »

Camp Lejeune water examined

RALEIGH, N.C. – Contaminated drinking water at Camp Lejeune can’t be definitively linked to health problems among people who lived at the Marine base over three decades, according to a government report released Saturday. Former residents of the base ...

From ESTES THOMPSON, TheNewsTribune.com,  14 Jun 2009

Lejeune water study finds no definite disease link

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) -- Contaminated drinking water at a North Carolina Marine Corps base can't definitively be linked to health problems among people who lived there over a three-decade span, according to a congressionally ordered report released ...

From ESTES THOMPSON, Buffalo News,  13 Jun 2009

Death penalty sought in NC nursing home shootings

CARTHAGE, N.C. (AP) -- A prosecutor said Thursday she will seek the death penalty against a man accused of killing eight people during a shooting rampage at a nursing home in central North Carolina. Moore County District Attorney Maureen Krueger made ...

From ESTES THOMPSON, The Orange County Register,  28 May 2009

Judge: Giuliani golf lawsuit slices off course

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) -- Suffice it to say that in U.S. Magistrate Judge Wallace Dixon's opinion, ousted Duke University golfer Andrew Giuliani's lawsuit against the school did not make par. Dixon sprinkled golf lingo and even a quote from the movie ...

From ESTES THOMPSON, Buffalo News,  20 May 2009
Related Topics: Duke University,  Rudy Giuliani,  Bill Murray

Hurricane forecaster predicts average '09 season

The 2009 hurricane season will be less active than last year's flurry of storms, and there's less than a 50 percent chance that a hurricane will hit the southeastern U.S., a researcher said Thursday. On the Gulf Coast, however, there is a 70 ...

From ESTES THOMPSON, eTaiwan News,  9 Apr 2009

Young, decorated NC officer ended shooting rampage

CARTHAGE, N.C. (AP) -- Justin Garner turned down a chance to join the state highway patrol so he could stay on his small hometown's police force. In just five years, he'd already been named Officer of the Year. And when a call came in that a gunman ...

From ESTES THOMPSON, Buffalo News,  30 Mar 2009
Related Topics: Robert Stewart,  Chris McKenzie

NC pediatrician accused of abuse forfeits license

A well-known North Carolina pediatrician accused of conducting improper genital exams on five patients reached an agreement Friday with North Carolina regulators that will keep him from practicing medicine in the U.S. Dr. Melvin D. Levine of Chapel ...

From ESTES THOMPSON, San Francisco Chronicle,  20 Mar 2009

NC doctor accused of abuse has license revoked

RALEIGH, N.C.—A well-known pediatrician accused of conducting improper genital exams on five patients reached an agreement Friday with North Carolina regulators that will keep him from practicing medicine in the country. Dr. Melvin D. Levine of Chapel ...

From ESTES THOMPSON, Boston Globe,  20 Mar 2009

Green Beret: Afghan man lunged before I shot him

FORT BRAGG, N.C.—A Green Beret charged with killing and mutilating an Afghan man said at his court-martial Monday that he shot the man -- whom he suspected to be a Taliban insurgent -- when he lunged at him during questioning. Testifying in his own ...

From ESTES THOMPSON, Boston Globe,  23 Feb 2009
Related Topics: Al-Qaeda

Green Beret faces court-martial in Afghan death

FORT BRAGG, N.C.—A Special Forces sergeant accused of killing an Afghan civilian and severing the man's ear was acting in self-defense against a suspected insurgent, the soldier's defense attorney said Thursday during opening statements in his client's ...

From ESTES THOMPSON, Boston Globe,  19 Feb 2009

« Previous  |  Next »

Who is This?

Help us add to our database, by linking this writer their entry in Wikipedia or Source Watch, or by suggesting that we remove it from our index.

Suggest an Entry

Enter a url from sourcewatch.org or wikipedia.org:


recommend removal

close