North Carolina

Warrants say N.C. girl found dead may have been raped
By Stephanie Narvaez
December 1, 2010 - 10:54am
Unsealed search warrants reveal new information

     According to CNN.com, unsealed police search warrants reveal that missing 10-year-old Zahra Baker, may have been raped prior to her murder. Baker had been reported missing in early October by her stepmother but the girl’s remains were found almost a month later, as she had been dismembered.

Prosthetic leg found in N.C.
By Stephanie Narvaez
October 27, 2010 - 5:40pm
Zahra Baker is believed to be missing girl.

A prosthetic leg has been found in a brushy area off of a North Carolina road, according to CNN. Investigators say the leg found is consistent with that of the missing 10-year-old, Zahra and will use the serial number on it to confirm this.

Police first launched a search for the girl on October 9, but had no confirmation of seeing her alive since Sept. 25. Since, Zahra’s disappearance has been declared a homicide. Both her father and stepmother have been arrested but not charged with the death of Zahara, but rather are being held for unrelated charges.

North Carolina girl still missing
By Lorne Fultonberg
October 14, 2010 - 5:04pm
Draining and search of pond yields nothing.

A ten-year-old girl from North Carolina is still nowhere to be found, five days after her parents first reported her missing.

Syracuse basketball takes transit uptown
By Kyle C. Leach
November 20, 2009 - 9:52pm
Halftime Snack saw simple basketball beat difficult opponents for the Orange men's basketball team this weekend at the 2K Sports Classic Benefiting Coaches vs. Cancer. SU beat ranked opponents from both sides of the country, topping California and North Carolina.

Remember back in gym class, during basketball, when the teacher would assign two people to pick sides? The tallest kids in the class were always picked first. The thought: closer to the basket, the more easily that person would put the ball in.

Halftime Snack read Jonathan Abrams’s article in this morning’s New York Times about the pick-and-roll, and the many NBA players who use the play to get open shots.

Football Friday - Penn State
By Kyle C. Leach
September 12, 2009 - 10:17am
Orange football team heads south for monster road game.

There is nothing the Orange can lose in Happy Valley. 

Halftime Snack is late this week -- poor planning and an active sports-social calendar on the South Side (SU field hockey and then Corcoran HS football) cut Friday Football at its knees.  But that does not mean Snack isn't thinking this morning: