Josh Shaffer stories from Raleigh, NC

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Shaffer: Raleigh uproots 83-year-old widow

Eighty-three-year-old Nettie Grove lives in a rental home on Carver Street in Raleigh that was recently purchased by the the City of Raleigh. The City has given her 90 days to move. Grove is on a fixed income and is unable to drive. She uses a walker to navigate her small home. She recently suffered a stroke and and has other health issues.

Nettie Grove shuffled to the door on her walker, still wearing her nightgown in the late afternoon, and invited me in. I had come to hear how Raleigh bought the house she rents on Carver Street and gave her 90 days to move. At age 83. After a stroke...

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Shaffer: Hungry hermit gets long lockup after illegal hunt

Jeffrey Dale Suggs went to prison for 5.5 years as a habitual felon after hunting for food with a borrowed gun that turned out to be stolen.
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Shaffer: Parrot raises a Raleigh spectacle

On spring evenings, when the air feels right, Donald Perry loads Curly the parrot into his travel cage and drives to Cloo’s Coney Island Hot Dogs on Avent Ferry Road – celebrating a man-bird friendship that has endured for 23 years.
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Shaffer: Farewell to a tiny, ferocious friend

Señora Wences, the beloved Chihuahua of columnist Josh Shaffer and family, left few unbitten during a long lifetime that ended last week.
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Shaffer: Joe Morgan's specialty is artificial critters, made to order

Randolph County’s Joe Morgan has crafted a line of specimens so popular worldwide that they have appeared in a dinosaur museum in Germany, at a poison control center in Utah and -- most triumphantly -- in an episode of “As The World Turns.”
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Shaffer: High school Samaritans have pen pals in prison

Nolan Hamilton and Ben Sistachs aim to write letters to every inmate in North Carolina.
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Shaffer: Raleigh homeless woman remembered, put to rest

Neighbors, store owners remember Anita Bridges as an unruly alcoholic. Members of her family held deep affection, but they were unable to get her off the streets.
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Shaffer: For homeless ne’er-do-well, Crazy Horse, a tragic, random end

Anita Bridges spent much of her life in jail. As soon as she got out, she got busy getting back in. Her long walk ended last week, when she was killed in late-night car crash on New Bern Avenue.
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Shaffer: Goldsboro couple married 80 years

Robert and Virginia Gerald appear to be the longest-wed couple in North Carolina.
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Shaffer: Civil War detective buried with soldiers he championed

Charles Purser helped identify more than 100 of the Confederate graves in Oakwood Cemetery
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Shaffer: Doctor cures warts with exorcisms

Chapel Hill physician makes four of five growths disappear.