Raleigh

RALEIGH, N.C. - Walter Hurley has missed only five of 60 Central Intercollegiate Athletic Association basketball tournaments, because his wife had cancer. His wish is to never miss another unless he's going to a better place. "When I do miss the next one, I hope it's because the big man has called me home to heaven," said Hurley, 83, a former CIAA player and Virginia high school basketball coach who gets around with the aid of a walker. "You don't want to miss this. There are too many customs.

GLORIA K. PERSICO, age 80, of 7900 Creedmoor Road, died Saturday, December 25, 2004. Mrs. Persico was born in New York on September 27, 1924. Mrs. Persico was preceded in death by her husband Victor in 1994 and by a son Christopher in 1979. She is survived by her two sons, Paul Persico of Raleigh and Victor Persico of Baltimore, MD.; brother Frank of Tom's River, NJ.; grandson, Victor Persico III of Baltimore, MD. Mass of Christian Burial will be held 10:00am Wednesday, at Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic Church.

RALEIGH, N.C. - This year, as Christmas season swung into gear, Pastor Patrick Wooden's followers fanned out to shopping malls across Raleigh to deliver a muscular message of holiday cheer: As Christian shoppers, they would like to be greeted with the phrase "Merry Christmas" - not a bland "Happy Holidays" - and stores that failed to do so would risk losing their business. Nearly six weeks later, some citizens in Raleigh are seething over what they see as an attempt to force religion into the public square.

Felipe Hernandez overslept yesterday, missed breakfast and ate a few burritos when he got to Ripken Stadium for the Cal Ripken World Series championship game. The Mexican center fielder hungered for more, and he and his team left most satisfied. Hernandez singled in the winning run in the top of the sixth inning, as Mexico City rallied to defeat West Raleigh, N.C., 4-3, and repeat as champion of the Babe Ruth League 12-and-Under division in Aberdeen. In front of a crowd estimated at just over 5,000, the final typified the entire series that featured 12 of 37 games decided by one run. "I didn't eat breakfast because I was asleep, was really tired," said Hernandez, who spoke through interpreter Laura Corona, the sister of Mexico City's pitching coach, Othon Corona.

When it started raining just before the scheduled start of yesterday's U.S. championship game in the Cal Ripken 12-and-Under World Series in Aberdeen, Raleigh, N.C., had reason to believe it was an omen in its favor. And, indeed, Raleigh won easily, 8-1, over defending U.S. champion Oahu, Hawaii, after a nearly one-hour delay. It had rained before Raleigh's district and state championship games, and there was a two-hour delay before the start of its 11-1 Southeast Region final romp over Virginia in Lakeland, Fla., that qualified the team for Aberdeen.

Cal Ripken Sr. would have been proud. Yesterday's single-elimination playoffs in the Cal Ripken 12-and-Under World Series in Aberdeen were full of sound, fundamental baseball, the "Ripken way." All four games were decided by one run each. U.S. games Oahu, Hawaii 3, Lexington, Ky. 2: Fans will remember Jeremy Fujimoto's hit over the right fielder's head with the bases loaded in the bottom of the sixth for Oahu, giving left-hander Jarrett Arakawa his second win in the Cal Ripken 12-and-Under World Series playoffs.

On March 11, 2004; LAURA ARNOLD RALEIGH, died at Bryn Mawr Hospital, Pennsylvania. Graduated Union Memorial School of Nursing, 1948. Widow of the late Alfred Raleigh. Survived by sons George Warfield Raleigh, Alfred Carlton Raleigh and three grandsons. A Memorial will be held at Noon on March 20 at the family home, Wayne, P.A.

at his home in Ocean City. Born in Baltimore City, he was the son of the late James Albert Nahm and Mary Llewella "Lulu" Swartwout Nahm. He is survived by his wife Sherran Galloy Nahm, a son Eric VanOrden Nahm of Raleigh, NC, two daughters, Meredith Leigh Nahm of Raleigh, NC, and Cassandra Nicole Parker and her husband Douglas of Baltimore and a grandson Charles Michael Bell of Pasadena, MD. Mr. Nahm was a charter life insurance underwriter and president of...

On October 16, 2003 "ROLLO". Visitation Wednesday 3 p.m. to 5 p.m., 2140 N. Fulton Avenue. Services will be held on Thursday at 1 p.m. in the chapel.

RALEIGH, N.C. - They said it was theirs. They said it was stolen. They said more than once that they would never, ever pay to get it back. And now, 138 years later, North Carolina officials are poised to reclaim their treasured copy of the Bill of Rights, which has fallen into the hands of Connecticut Yankees. It is a long story, beginning in 1865, in the final throes of the Civil War, when a Union soldier lifted the sheepskin document from the North Carolina statehouse and marched home to Ohio with it on his back.