A knife, a car theft and fear
Sheehan: OK, I'll admit it. This break-in caught my attention because it happened in my neighborhood.
Beautiful blend of old, young
Sheehan: Dewayne Vaughn, 12, and his partner, Sally Slack, 83, murmured intently, strategizing his next shot.
You kind of had to be there
Sheehan: Jesse Helms, rest his soul, was one of those public figures hard to understand if you weren't born in North Carolina.
N.C. boy knew how to celebrate
Sheehan:Glenn McDuffie may have spent the past 25 or 30 years in Houston, but he's still a Carolina boy — born in a mill house at Cannon Mills and raised on Packard Avenue in Kannapolis, just up the street from some of the world's greatest race car drivers.
Sobering lesson for family
Sheehan:To say that Lisa Lewis was intent on getting her twin sons a quality education is an understatement.
Hard news for a 5-year-old
Ruth Sheehan:If I had read the obituary without knowing how well it captured Kamryn Bailey, it still would have broken my heart.
Finally, a bright spot
Sheehan:There was a rare moment of hope for Phil Wiggins and hundreds of other patients with severe and persistent mental illness caught in the state's clampdown on one-on-one care when mental health "reforms" crashed.
Presumed illegal -- it's scary
Sheehan:At the Hispanic Family Center off Raleigh's Brentwood Road, the nation's roiling debate over immigration is far from abstract.
Orphan's future on hold
Sheehan:Every June, I can't wait for the valedictorians' special edition. I read it avidly, pondering how kids rise to the top.
A true labor of love
Sheehan:To think: This chapel, this remarkable gem of architectural history, almost fell to a wrecking ball -- to make way for a dozen or so parking spaces and a little bit of greenery on a downtown lot.
Change fails this patient
Sheehan:Over the past several weeks, big changes have occurred in the state's mental health system.
No debt, but calls a threat
Sheehan:Brian Hocutt first heard from this jerk "Ron Collins" back in January.
She'll get her cats elsewhere
Sheehan:By any objective standard, Page Cox is an animal lover.
Where was Sean Paddock's father?
Sheehan:At the trial of Lynn Paddock, accused of abusing and finally murdering her adopted 4-year-old son Sean, the stories of her surviving children have been horrifying, unbearable.
Humana relents on red tape
Sheehan:After five months of refusing to acknowledge Medicaid coverage for Doug Phillippi, a 47-year-old Carrboro man incapacitated by Lou Gehrig's disease, Humana insurance company did an about-face on Tuesday.
D.J. was just a good kid
Sheehan:Denise Mangum Coates and her fiance were cooking dinner when they heard a gunshot outside.
Humana needs a heart
Sheehan:I wish I could tell you that the insurance company Humana has a heart.
Till death do we all part
Sheehan:It just so happens I celebrated my 14th wedding anniversary this week, so that explains my intense interest in Keron Lamont Wilkins and his three -- possibly seven -- wives.
Gehrig's disease, then ...
Sheehan:Doug Phillippi of Carrboro, a talented artist and musician, suffers from Lou Gehrig's disease, which stops the body -- and leaves the mind trapped but intact.
One vet takes up the cause
Sheehan:Lynn Hughes thought he knew just about all there was to know about veterans. First and foremost, he's a Bronze Star winner in the Vietnam War. Second, Hughes is the host of a community-access TV show in Rocky Mount called Veteran's Corner.
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