MOREHEAD CITY, N.C. (UPI) - A brass band tooted "The Marine Hymn" and thousands of soldiers boarded ships for Saudi Arabia, where a massive buildup of ground troops is under way to counter Iraqi troops massing at the border.

FORT BRAGG, N.C. -- About 2,000 members of Fort Bragg's crack 82nd Airborne were on full alert Tuesday awaiting orders to go to the Mideast to make sure Iraq's invasion of Kuwait does not spill over into Saudi Arabia.

N.C. State officials and their lawyers on Thursday rejected basketball coach Jim Valvano's fourth request to meet with the university's board of trustees in a last ditch effort to avoid his dismissal.

RALEIGH, N.C. -- Jim Valvano, the embattled basketball coach at North Carolina State, negotiated with the university Tuesday over terms of his departure from the school where he was once considered a demigod.

WILMINGTON, N.C. (UPI) — Hundreds of army troops from Fort Bragg and jet fighters from North Carolina Air Force bases headed for the tension~filled Middle East Sunday to shield Saudi Arabia and its oil fields from a possible incursion by lraqi troops.

WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. -- Lady Godiva rode through the streets of Winston-Salem on a dappled grey steed, her amazingly long blond hair covering what appeared to be a bare body as she protested a proposed 41 percent increase in property taxes.

RALEIGH, N.C. -- North Carolina State basketball coach Jim Valvano, faced with being fired, wants to plead his case before the University of North Carolina Board of Governors, his lawyer said Thursday.

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RALEIGH, N.C. — Eddie Hatcher dwells deep within the belly of the beast, held for trial in the cavernous yellow brick prison where North Carolina's most violent felons live out their days.

RALEIGH, N.C. (UPI) — Volunteers in a specially-trained medical evacuation unit of the North Carolina National Guard will be Joining U.S. troops in/the Persian Gulf, Gov. Jim Martin said Thursday.

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WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. -- A 20-year-old modern-day Lady Godiva rode through the streets on a dappled gray steed Monday to protest high taxes, her modesty protected by little more than her long blond hair and a string of pearls.

RALEIGH, N.C. -- North Carolina State University's Board of Trustees met in closed session Tuesday to discuss the fate of the men's basketball program and its coach, Jim Valvano, but adjourned without taking any action.

SILER CITY, N.C. -- America's favorite aunt, Frances 'Aunt Bee' Bavier, who took care of Andy and Opie for eight years on 'The Andy Griffith Show,' died of heart failure Wednesday night and will be buried Sunday in Siler City.

FORT BRAGG, N.C. -- A battalion from the crack 82nd Airborne headed for Saudi Arabia Wednesday to join other U.S. troops in fending off a possible invasion by Iraqi forces poised at the border.

RALEIGH, N.C. -- A North Carolina man believed to have inside knowledge of an alleged point-shaving scandal involving North Carolina State University basketball players Wednesday was questioned by the State Bureau of Investigation.

RALEIGH, N.C. -- North Carolina State coach Jim Valvano's attorney says he has withdrawn all proposals to settle Valvano's contract with the university, and the embattled coach will stay on until the university rules otherwise.

BURLINGTON, N.C. -- A woman suspected of poisoning nine people, including husbands, boyfriends, a mother-in-law and her father, is a loving person who has done nothing wrong, her lawyer says.