The Kings Mountain Herald
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Golininy 13, 2007
LocAL NEWS
David Alien
promoted
by Highway
Patrol
Colonel W. Fletcher Clay,
Commanding Officer for the
North Carolina State Highway
Patrol, recently promoted
Lieutenant D.L. Allen to the
rank of Captain and assigned
him to Troop C Headquarters in
Raleigh.
Since that time Captain Allen
has served as Troop
Commander for Wake and the
surrounding 13 counties.
With the recent retirement of
Captain J. K. Glidewell in
Monroe, Allen has been selected
as his replacement and
assumed the position of Troop
Commander for Troop H on
September 10. Troop H includes
Cleveland, Gaston,
Mecklenburg, Union, Anson,
Richmond, Scotland, Hoke and
- Moore Counties.
Captain Allen, a 1983 graduate
of Kings Mountain High School,
resides in Kings Mountain with
his wife Beth and their three
sons Andy, Jake and Noah.
Pictured at the Promotional Ceremony in Raleigh are Colonel W.
Fletcher Clay, Captain David L. Allen, Beth Allen and Noah Allen.
KM man charged with sex crimes
EMILY WEAVER
eweaver@kingsmountainherald.com
Cleveland County Sheriff's
officers arrested Joshua Neil —
Robinson, 21, of Kings
Mountain, Friday on charges of
contributing to the delinquency
of a minor, crime against nature
and two counts of statutory rape
of a 13-year-old girl.
Robinson and an unnamed
accomplice, already behind bars,
are suspected to have transport-
ed two young girls across state
lines, from South Carolina to
Kings ‘Mountain, where they -
ended up at the Holiday Inn
Express on August 1, 2007.
Charges allege that the men
had “inappropriate sexual
behavior with the defendant,”
including crimes against nature,
which is defined by North
Carolina courts as sodomy.
Under the state laws, the gen-
eral age of consent for sexual
activities among both males and
females is 16. Anyone under 16 is
not considered able to give con-
sent. Robinson was held at the
Cleveland County Detention
Center under a $100,000 secured
bond.
HEFFNER
From Page 7
Every station has its own little
quirks.
One of them likes to send its
helicopter out to hover over a
building while a reporter, in a
serious tone, tells watchers that
an important meeting will take
place in that building later today.
I am sometimes overcome
with giggles.
Anytime a murder takes place
in the world class city, you are
told about it immediately and for
days thereafter. If New York or
Washington followed suit, those
cities would have nothing but
murder in and on the news con-
stantly.
Rupert Murdoch might even
start a murder channel.
NBC’s morning show has been
running its annual “Where in the
world is Matt Lauer?” The seg-
ment can sometimes be interest-
ing, but it isn’t nearly the block-
buster they'd like us to believe it
is.
Now, the local NBC outlet is
running a “Where in the world
is Larry Sprinkle?” segment,
and, let me tell you, it has been
exciting. The very first day, while
Matt was in Everett, Washington,
Larry traveled all the way to
Concord. The next day, Matt flew
to Bhutan, and Larry made his
way to Hendrick Motor Sports.
I can hardly wait for the thun-
derstorms to roll in. The world
class city news outlets are all
proud of their weather coverage,
and they will interrupt your
favorite show at the drop of a
lightning bolt to tell you the
storm is nearing your neighbor-
hood and you are probably
going to be fried to a turn.
When complaints rolled in to
one of the stations a couple of
years back, the one with all the
cameras, their weatherman told
the audience the next day that he
was saving lives, and that those
who had complained would
think twice if their mother was
caught in a deadly, two-light-
ning-bolt thunderstorm.
Kenneth Kitzmiller
Aug. 29-Sept. 11 Year Ago
Total precipitation 66 3.25
Maximum 1 day 46 (30th) 2.25 (31st)
Year to date 23.59 29.29
Low temperature 63 (31st) 63 (1st)
High temperature 95 (10th) 92 (29th)
Avg. temperature 78.5 76.3
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