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Artist Joe Carnevale designs NC State Fair barrel monster

Carnevale first captured local and national attention with his "barrel... more

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Libertarian Dr Mike Beitler At The NAACP NC Senatorial Candidate Forum 3/13/2010

3/13/2010 Dr Mike Beitler answers questions at a recent NAACP NC Senatorial Candidate... more

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11/5/2009 Former NC Governor Mike Easley Committee Spends All Campaign Funds To Avoid Paying Fines

11/5/2009 Mike Easley will most likely avoid paying his criminal fines by diverting... more

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9/15/09 Mike Shanklin At The “Audit The Fed” Rally Outside Senator Hagan’s Office - Raleigh, NC

9/15/2009 Camera Man Nicholas Hearn - You Can Listen To The Live Radio Broadcast From... more

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Random overgrowth, or Jesus?

In the last few months, the ghostly image of Jesus has appeared elsewhere on a... more

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Trailer for Cannes Festival Entry Duel 3D

Trailer for Sci-Fi Action 3D, Duel 3D, shot on location in the Apex, Raleigh, NC area.

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Monster Found in Raleigh.....of the Barrel kind.

Raleigh Local artist, under the alias: u live and you burn, had an itch to create... more

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Nissan Cube w Music Horn 2

VCAM for Nissan Cube

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Nissan Cube

VCAM for Nissan Cube. Never before has " getting around " become such an... more

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'Mailman Steve' gets probation - Hording junk mail

By Sarah Ovaska, Staff Writer Comment on this story
RALEIGH - Mailman Steven Padgett received a probationary sentence today from a sympathetic judge for failing to deliver years worth of junk mail on his Apex route.

"Today you'll get credit for a life well lived," U.S. District Judge James C. Dever III told Padgett. Dever could have sent Padgett to prison under federal sentencing guidelines; instead, he put him on three years' probation, fined him $3,000 and ordered him to perform 500 hours of community service.

Padgett, 58, apologized to the postal service and his family for the crime of delaying and destroying mail.

The prosecutor, Assistant U.S. Attorney Josh Howard, said authorities had notified hundreds of Padgett's customers about the criminal proceeding, and only one responded. That single response, Howard, said, was in support of Padgett.

Padgett built up good will on his route by handing out treats to dogs, making sure packages were left on dry porches and introducing himself to customers. Children called him "Mailman Steve."

The U.S. Postal Service never received a complaint about the missing mail and didn't know anything was amiss until they were contacted by a utility worker who noticed the excess mail at Padgett's house in Raleigh. Postal inspectors went to the home this spring and discovered the third-class mail piled in his garage and buried in his yard.

Postal authorities don't think any letters, bills or other type of first-class or second-class mail were among the hundreds of thousands of fliers at Padgett's home, some dating back as far as 1999.

It wasn't a conscious stand against waste or a junk mail protest that spurred Padgett to hold onto the mailers, according to Andrew McCoppin, his attorney. Rather, it was the inability to meet the demands of a job in a growing part of the county while contending with heart problems and complications from his diabetes, McCoppin wrote in a memo in advance of the hearing.

Not sorting and delivering the third-class mailings became a way to save time and make sure other mail got delivered on time.

Padgett pleaded guilty to the crime in August.

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I think more people should have responded with thanks for what he had done for them.By Sarah Ovaska, Staff Writer Comment on this story RALEIGH - Mailman Steven Padgett... more