Saturday, Jul. 5, 2008
FROM THE JOURNAL GAZETTE

RALEIGH, N.C. – Former Sen. Jesse Helms, an unyielding champion of the conservative movement who spent three combative and sometimes caustic decades in Congress, where he relished his battles against liberals, Communists and occasionally a fellow Republican, died on the Fourth of July. He was 86.

FROM THE NEWS-SENTINEL

Five years after it began, a program for training federally certified aircraft mechanics in Fort Wayne has reached an important milestone: Students will be able to finish their associate degrees here instead of somewhere else.