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Homecoming and revival
Hood Memorial AME Zion Church will hold its 59th annual Homecoming and Revival on Sunday, Sept. 7. The Rev. Dr. Benjain Morrow, presiding elder of Charlotte District, AME Zion will be the guest pastor at the 11 a.m. service. For the afternoon worship and celebration at 4 p.m., the Rev. James Burris and members of Mt.Calvary Baptist Church of Gastonia will be the guests.
The church is located at 215 Sacco Street in Belmont. For information, contact the church office (704)825-6007.
Nightly Revival Services
Monday, Sept. 8
Rev. Charles Reid, Pastor of God’s Meeting Place, Charlotte
Tuesday
Rev. James Woody, Pastor of St. Mark AME Zion Church, Pineville
Wednesday
Rev.Sam Barber, Pastor of New Beginning Church of Gastonia
Thursday
Rev. Charles Tillett, Pastor of Gethsemane AME Zion Church of Charlotte
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New evidence eyed in unsolved murder
By THOMAS LARK
- Thu, Jul 10, 2008
MOUNT HOLLY—Information from a black box has provided more clues in the murder investigation of Irina Yarmolenko.
A 20-year-old student at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, “Ira” Yarmolenko was found May 5, murdered along the banks of the Catawba River, her body lying beside her blue sedan.
In a July 2 interview, Mount Holly Police Department Chief David Belk explained that, like most modern vehicles, Yarmolenko’s 1998 Saturn was equipped with a black box—a computerized monitoring device that gathers data on the vehicle. Thanks to the box, Belk said, his department has now retrieved new information about what was happening to—and possibly inside—the car at the time of Yarmolenko’s demise.
“It certainly has provided us some useful information,” Belk said.
According to the box’s data, someone was sitting in the driver’s seat when the car went down the embankment at an estimated 15 miles per hour. The driver’s side seatbelt was engaged at the time. And someone started the car at the scene.
Belk said his department is continuing to work with both the North Carolina State and Federal bureaus of investigation in analyzing data and evidence.
“It is a slow and arduous task,” said the chief, “and we hope that the final results provide us with more information.”
Just before 1 p.m., May 5, Yarmolenko’s body was discovered by a pair of local jet-skiers. Arriving at the scene, local law enforcement officers found her car at the water’s edge, facing the river, as if it were intended to have been driven into the water. The car had traveled some 30 feet down a steep embankment. It struck a tree stump right at the water’s edge, damaging the front of the car.
Yarmolenko’s body was found outside the vehicle, lying on the ground next to the driver’s side door. The cause of death was determined to have been asphyxiation.
“We haven’t focused on any one particular person,” Belk said of developing any potential suspects in the homicide’s investigation.
When an arrest may come is also difficult to say, the chief added.
“We can’t speculate on that,” he said.
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