Inmate Kayin Whitfield was found unresponsive and not breathing during a regular 9:30 p.m. check. The DOC reported that medical staff performed CPR and took Whitfield to the Central Prison emergency room. He was pronounced dead at 10:20 p.m.

Whitfield's body was taken to the state medical examiner's office. Preliminary findings indicate that the death was of natural causes. An investigation and review is underway.

Whitfield had been serving a five-month sentence on for driving with a license revoked, assault on an officer and damage to property.

Williams is wanted for unlawful flight to avoid prosecution on attempted murder charges. Detectives said Williams is wanted in a shooting of a woman at an ATM on Maynard Road in Cary in June 2007.

Witnesses reported seeing Williams leaving with two other men in a burgundy Buick with a New York license tag. The other two suspects have been arrested.

Anyone with information is asked to call the Charlotte office of the FBI at 704-377-9200.

The state's Employment Security Commission on Friday reported the jobless rate continued to hover around 11 percent, as it has for nearly all of this year. September's rate was 10.8 percent.

The state's unemployment rate in October 2008 was 7 percent.

North Carolina's unemployment rate has been worse than the national average for more than a year and that continued in October, when the U.S. figure was 10.2 percent.

Construction suffered the greatest losses, shedding about 6,600 North Carolina jobs in October. Education, health services and government jobs saw the greatest employment growth.

The accident happened around 7:15 a.m., just past Jenna Shane Drive.

According to Fayetteville Police, a Dodge pick-up truck with three passengers was traveling outbound Strickland Bridge Road when the driver swerved around a bicyclist causing the truck to crash into an on-coming Chevrolet Impala.

The driver of the Impala, Tara Thompson, died at the scene. Thompson's daughter, 11-year-old Shanice Thompson, was extracted from the vehicle and taken to Cape Fear Valley Medical Center with serious injuries.

All three passengers of the pick-up truck -- Johnnie Clint Nabours, 36-year-old Mariano Vazques and 30-year-old Pedro Santos -- are being treated at Cape Fear Valley Hospital. There's no word on the extent of their injuries.

The bicyclist, 18-year-old Blayne Ritter, did not suffer any injuries.

Bridge Road at Jenna Shane Drive and Larwood Drive was closed for some time.

FAA spokeswoman Kathleen Bergen says she doesn't know how many flights are being affected or when the problem will be resolved.

RDU spokeswoman says only a handful of flights at RDU have been affected and airline customers should call their airline to find out flight status updates.

An AirTran Airways spokesman says Thursday there's no danger to flights in the air, and flights are still taking off and landing.

However, spokesman Christopher White says flight plans are having to be inputted manually because of a malfunction with the automated system.

As a result, there are delays and cancellations.

Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport, the world's busiest airport, has been particularly affected.

AirTran has canceled 22 flights and dozens more flights have been delayed as of 8 a.m. EST. Delta Air Lines also has suffered.

Kelly's husband Scott stands accused of her murder.

"I knew this day would come eventually," Kelly's mother, Wanda Hollis, said.

It took 14 months for the Granville County sheriff to arrest Scott Morris.

"It's like a brick is lifted off your chest," Hollis said. "You don't know what it's like until you go through it. It's unbelievably deep."

Kelly's murder also cut deeply into the heart of the tiny town of Stem, where she lived.

"It's just as hard now as it was the day after it happened," contends Stem resident Darlene Van Hook. "It doesn't matter how long -- it's still a hurtful thing.

For 14 months, one man coordinated search efforts. In the first few days, the search hoped to find Kelly alive. But later it became an effort to find Kelly's remains to give the family closure.

"It tugs at you," search coordinator Al Mignicci said. "You get moved by it -- eating and sleeping the case. You can't let go."

For months after Kelly disappeared, Mignicci coordinated daily searchers. Later, it was every weekend.

"It means a lot to a family when you have a search team out there every week looking," said Wanda.

And although Kelly has been found, her presence won't disappear from Hook's convenience store.

"I'm not taking the poster down for a while. I'll leave the ribbons up too. Kelly deserves to know people still care," Van Hook said.

As for Scott Morris, he remains in jail held without bail. His next court appearance is scheduled for Dec. 2.

The Daily Advance of Elizabeth City reported that Currituck County Board of Commissioners Chairman Owen Etheridge made the formal declaration on Wednesday.

Etheridge said the decision was based on officials' desire to have inspectors from the Federal Emergency Management Agency visit the county and investigate the damage.

Currituck Emergency Management interim director Mary Beth Newns said entire beach areas in coastal Currituck are in need of repair. In some places, she said oceanfront dunes have been eroded by up to 30 feet.

During the storm, aided by remnants of Tropical Storm Ida, the northeast and the Outer Banks received six to 10 inches of rain.

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A close friend of Brad's, and his ex-father-in-law both say they offered to take in Shaniya rather than let her live with her mother, because they say when the child was in the custody of her mother, bad things happened to her.

"My wife says she saw cigarette burns on Shaniya's arms," said Brad's friend Tim Allen, who says he is very angry over what happened.

Byron Coleman, Brad's ex-father-in-law, said Shaniya "had burns on her legs, arms and things" after visits with her mother.

"She had a cigarette burn on the corner of her eye, which she claimed her grandma did when she went over there," added Shaniya's half sister Cheyenne Lockhart.

The three all claimed that the 5-year-old suffered physical abuse while in the custody of her mother.

"When you wanted sex that's where you went," Coleman said. "You knew what the girl was doing. You knew what she associated with, so why place your daughter in that situation?"

Because of that, Coleman blames Lockhart for Shaniya's death.

"To me Shaniya would be alive today if she wasn't placed in that situation," Coleman claims.

Coleman says he offered to give Shaniya a home, but says Brad declined his offer.

Allen tells a similar story.

"He had an alternative, I gave him a way out," Allen explained; however Lockhart would not let Allen take care of Shaniya.

"I'm fighting mad. All this could have been avoided," Allen said.

Allen had already taken in Shaniya's half sister Cheyenne, because she said her dad wouldn't take care of her.

And Cheyenne says Brad did not provide for Shaniya.

"He didn't take care of her, his girlfriends took care of her," she said. "He loved her, but she was raised by other people. He hasn't been in her life."

Meanwhile, the Cumberland County Department of Social Services said it can not comment on what it was doing in regard to Shaniya because those comments might compromise the on-going criminal investigation.

Freshman Andre Dawkins had 13 points and Jon Scheyer and Miles Plumlee added 10 apiece for the Blue Devils (2-0).

They held the Chanticleers to three field goals during a 14-minute stretch of the first half, put themselves up by 25 points with a 24-11 spurt midway through the second and cruised from there to a second-round matchup with the Elon-Charlotte winner Tuesday night.

Mario Edwards scored 12 to lead the Chanticleers (1-1). Their coach, Cliff Ellis, beat Duke three times from 1987-90 during his decade coaching at Clemson. But that didn't translate onto the court for a Coastal Carolina team seeking its first win against an Atlantic Coast Conference team since 1987.

But on a night when the Blue Devils once again were short-handed due to an injury and a suspension, Singler was there to keep them rolling. The ACC's preseason player of the year followed his 20-point performance in the opening win against North Carolina-Greensboro with even bigger numbers, scoring 15 in the first half and finishing 8 of 14 in 36 minutes.

Dawkins, a freshman with a quick trigger from long range, hit two 3-pointers during the overwhelming second-half spurt. The first made it 50-28 with 11 minutes left and pushed Duke's lead into the 20s.

The Blue Devils extended their NCAA-record nonconference winning streak at Cameron Indoor Stadium to 70, claimed their 30th straight win at home against an unranked team and improved to 19-2 in the preseason NIT, a tournament they have won three times.

Coastal Carolina, which was playing its first game against a top-10 team since a 43-point loss to No. 7 Florida in 2002, fell to 1-28 against the ACC and lost its sixth straight road game. The Chanticleers were without three first-year players - including South Carolina transfer Chad Gray - who were serving one-game suspensions for violating undisclosed team rules.

Duke had just eight players in its rotation because guard Nolan Smith sat out the second of his two-game suspension for playing in an unsanctioned summer league and 6-foot-10 freshman forward Mason Plumlee remained out with a broken left wrist. Smith is expected back for the second-round matchup.

Without them, the Blue Devils pushed their lead into double figures to stay by scoring 10 straight points midway through the first half and forcing the Chanticleers into some miserable shooting.

Coastal Carolina reeled off six quick points in the first 2 minutes - but managed just six more during the following 14, when they were held to 3-of-22 shooting while allowing Duke to take a 26-12 lead. The Chanticleers attempted their only two free throws of the half at the 2:20 mark.

The Democrats met behind closed doors Tuesday before announcing the decision. A spokeswoman for Senate leader Marc Basnight says Nesbitt was elected unanimously by the caucus. There were no other candidates.

Nesbitt will become the top lieutenant to Basnight, who's been in charge of the Senate since 1993. Nesbitt replaces Sen. Tony Rand of Cumberland County, who announced two weeks ago he was leaving the Legislature to lead the state parole commission.

Nesbitt joined the Legislature 30 years ago and became one of the House's chief budget-writers into the 1990s. He switched to the Senate in 2004.

Supported on either side by friends holding up the distraught father, Bradley Lockhart looked skyward as he addressed his comments to God.

“Don’t give up on me and don’t give up on Shaniya,” he said. “She’s up there with you. Just knowing my little baby is up there with you is giving me comfort right now.”

His pain was shared by the community.

“I have babies and it would devastate me to know it could happen to my children,’’ said Cynthia McKay who felt compelled to attend the vigil.

She added, “To know that someone this little girl trusted, trusted with all her heart; to travel with him and to have taken advantage of her innocence is wrong.”

Many of those who came were filled with a combination of grief and anger.

“We were looking to find her alive,” said Alica Campbell of Fayetteville. “How she died was horrible.”

For one of Shaniya's aunts, the answers just aren’t there.

“It’s crazy,” said Yvonne Mitchell. “It was crazy when it first began. Nothing is making any sense; none of the stories. Nothing.”

But, Fayetteville needs to make sense of thing, which is why people came together.

“Now is the time we come together and we have to come together as one,’’ said Yvonne Mitchell, who is one of Shaniya’s aunts.

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