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In this March 15, 2012 photo, a billboard featuring the photo of murdered UNC student body president Eve Carson seen on National Highway 49 west of Munnar in southern India. The image of a slain U.S. university student body president has turned up on billboards in southern India. (AP Photo/The News & Observer, Bruce Siceloff)

Billboard in India used murder victim's image for ad campaign

Bruce Siceloff, Jane Stancill News & Observer (Raleigh, N.C.)

Last updated Thursday, March 22, 2012 - 1:45pm

Along the roads of southern India, the billboards are plentiful, promoting movies, mobile phones, fine silks, Chinese restaurants and Communist Party politicians seeking re-election.

There, along National Highway 49, not far from the mountain town of Munnar, were at least two billboards with an image that would be chilling to most North Carolinians: the smiling visage of Eve Carson, a University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill student body president who was killed in 2008.

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U.S. professor faces cocaine-smuggling charges in Argentina

Jay Price News & Observer (Raleigh, N.C.)

Last updated Tuesday, March 20, 2012 - 8:51am

CHAPEL HILL, N.C. -- A 68-year-old University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill physics professor with three degrees from Oxford University is being held in an Argentine prison on charges of trying to smuggle 2 kilograms of cocaine.

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Muslim-American terror rare, study says

Jessica Halpern News & Observer (Raleigh, N.C.)

Last updated Friday, February 10, 2012 - 9:25am

RALEIGH, N.C. -- The number of homegrown terrorism plots hatched by Muslim-Americans has declined over the last three years and remain relatively rare despite public fears, according to a study by a University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill sociology professor.

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