PROBATION SYSTEM IN CRISIS
Documents and interviews show that state probation chief Robert Lee Guy had known, at least since 2004, about shoddy work in Wake County that could threaten public safety.
Audio slide show: The N&O investigates the system.
Writing was serious craft for teacher, military wife, mother
Life Stories: Mildred Hopkins was always turning words into stories in her head. After she moved to Raleigh in 1999, she sought an outlet for her literary musings.
A teacher until the end
Imparting the simple things he'd learned guided his life.
Restaurateur served up food and lessons
Life Stories: It was a big deal for a boy from a tiny village in Greece to get accepted into what was then the country's only law school. Thoughtful and intelligent, Christ Capetanos would have made a masterful attorney.
A journey in pictures
Jim Wight recorded world travel in thousands of slides.
Writer melded work, community
Life Stories:Several decades ago, Barbara Watkins changed her first name to Nayo.
A Tar Heel to the end
Reid Suggs played on UNC's first tournament team.
Veterinarian worked to save lives large and small
Life Stories:Like many an animal lover before him, James Wright decided to become a veterinarian. He got his degree, opened a practice -- and quit.
Chemo didn't change her chemistry for life
Emily Bright saw the world from a slightly off-kilter perspective. She liked giving voice to the zany things she wondered about, things that other people probably never thought about. If they did, they probably never voiced them aloud.
Motherhood journey ended too soon
Life Stories: Debra Kent was a mover and shaker in the world of HIV/AIDS nonprofits, a professional fundraiser with an activist bent. But what she really wanted was to be a mom.
Avid angler lived on sea legs
Life Stories:If Hemingway's classic "The Old Man and the Sea" were ever recast as the story of a woman, that woman would be Charlotte Fields.
Folks were just sold on his gregarious ways
Life Stories: Bud Garska could sell diapers to the parents of grown children.
She was unable to see, but never forbidden
When Deborah Sugg was born in 1951, she weighed 3 1/2 pounds. Doctors didn't know as much then as they do today about caring for premature infants, and they put her in an incubator infused with a high concentration of oxygen.
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