Police: Rocky Mount officer hit by drunk driver

Officer Jill Tyson-Johnson was trying to make an arrest along 2045 Woodruff Road Thursday night when a drunk driver hit her and then her cruiser, police said.

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   Snow flurries could blow in by morning

   Clouds will accumulate overnight and cold air will blast back in again Friday, bringing a chance of snow flurries, WRAL Chief Meteorologist Greg Fishel said.

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   Lawmakers express outrage over mental patient's death

   Some state lawmakers are calling for harsher disciplinary action for employees who were both directly and indirectly responsible for neglecting a Cherry Hospital patient who died after 22 hours sitting essentially unattended in the same chair.

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   Convicted killer: 'I didn't murder nobody'

   Ever since a Lee County boy was killed four years ago, the man arrested and convicted in the case has insisted another man was the killer. Last month, a second man admitted to taking part in the crime.

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   Mukasey collapses during speech

   Attorney General Michael Mukasey, the no-nonsense former federal judge who took over the Justice Department after Alberto Gonzales resigned in disgrace, collapsed during a speech Thursday night and lost consciousness.

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