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No bickering, Helms tells children in will

Jesse Helms wanted his family to keep the peace.

Updated: Aug. 4, 2008 6:42 AM | Full story

2 titans fought as friends

Jesse Helms and Bill Friday were products of the same red clay soil -- part of of the old cotton, Bible-Belt South.

Updated: Jul. 20, 2008 1:42 AM | Full story

Dole fails to name AIDS bill for Helms

Former Sen. Jesse Helms might have had a personal evolution on AIDS policy, but the journey wasn't enough to stop protests when U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Dole tried to name an AIDS relief bill after him.

Updated: Jul. 17, 2008 5:02 AM | Full story

State: No ultimatum in protest of Helms

Under the Dome:Spokesman Brian Long says the agriculture department never threatened the job of former Standards Lab head L.F. Eason III over his refusal to lower the flag to honor former Sen. Jesse Helms.

Updated: Jul. 10, 2008 6:02 AM | Full story

Funeral honors Helms the man

Jesse Helms was laid to rest Tuesday in a simple, dignified ceremony that emphasized the man rather than the conservative force who became a beloved and despised household name in American politics.

Updated: Jul. 9, 2008 4:55 AM | Full story

Jesse Helms: A life on the right

' Being remembered isn't important. What is important is standing up for what you believe to be right, hoping that you have done everything you can to preserve the moral and spiritual principles that made America great in the first place.'

Updated: Jul. 8, 2008 6:10 AM | Full story

At rest, Helms stirs a crowd

Jesse Helms' funeral today at Hayes Barton Baptist Church, is expected to draw prominent political figures from North Carolina and elsewhere.

Updated: Jul. 8, 2008 4:36 AM | Full story

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.

Updated: Jul. 7, 2008 5:13 AM | Full story

Church, family prepare for final goodbye to Helms

North Carolina's late U.S. senator, Jesse Helms, will lie in repose from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. Monday at Hayes Barton Baptist Church in Raleigh.

Updated: Jul. 7, 2008 5:14 AM | Full story

Not my favorite senator

Saunders:One hundred. Easily.

Updated: Jul. 6, 2008 2:04 AM | Full story

Defiant Helms drove South's GOP

Jesse Helms will be remembered as one of the leading figures in the rise of the Republican Party in the South -- a man who helped move conservative Democrats to the GOP, according to historians and political experts who watched his career.

Updated: Jul. 6, 2008 8:06 AM | Full story

Arrangements

Jesse Helms will lie in repose from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. Monday at Hayes Barton Baptist Church in Raleigh.

Updated: Jul. 6, 2008 1:37 PM | Full story

Small-town upbringing shaped a senator

Helms aimed to protect the values of places like Monroe.

Updated: Jul. 6, 2008 2:03 AM | Full story

Former Sen. Jesse Helms, 86, dies

Former U.S. Sen. Jesse A. Helms, the son of a Monroe police chief who rose to national prominence to become one of the lions of the American right, died Friday. He was 86.He redefined politics in North Carolina, reinvigorated U.S conservatism.

Updated: Jul. 5, 2008 5:42 AM | Full story

Remembrances of Jesse Helms

Public figures who knew him react to his passing.

Updated: Jul. 5, 2008 8:23 AM | Full story

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