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“Woodfield Mall continues to attract popular retailers that complement an incredible selection of stores,” said David Gott, general manager of Woodfield Mall. “Our recent additions, along with the upcoming Microsoft retail store, allow Woodfield Mall to continue to deliver an unmatched shopping experience to Chicago area residents and visitors alike.”

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Judge again sentences Laurence Lovette to life without parole for murdering Eve Carson

For the second time in 18 months, an Orange County judge on Monday sentenced Laurence Alvin Lovette to a lifetime in prison for murdering UNC-Chapel Hill student body president Eve Carson in 2008.

Lovette, 22, and his attorneys called psychologist James Hilkey as their sole witness in an effort to persuade Judge Allen Baddour that the convicted killer should have an opportunity for parole 25 years from now.

Hilkey said that he found Lovette to be a “cold, callous, unsympathetic and self-centered individual” when they first met in August 2008, almost six months after Carson was murdered.

But since then, Hilkey said he has developed a slightly different opinion, that he had seen some compassion in Lovette, but finding it was akin to “peeling back an onion.”

Hilkey testified that he could not say for certain that Lovette was so “irretrievably corrupted” that there was not a possibility for rehabilitation. But he also conceded upon cross-examination by District Attorney Jim Woodall that there also was a possibility that Lovette would not change for the better during his years in prison.

Lovette, who did not testify at his trial and awaits trial in a second murder case in Durham, spoke against the advice of his attorneys.

“People make mistakes,” Lovette said. “Nobody’s perfect. I’m not the monster y’all made me out to be.”

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“He does not care about consequences, and he does not care about other people,” Woodall said.

The case was sent back to Orange County Superior Court for a new sentencing hearing by the state Court of Appeals after the U.S. Supreme Court issued a ruling in another homicide case involving a teenager.

The nation’s highest court ruled in June 2012 that an automatic sentence of life without possibility of parole for people who were younger than 18 when they committed murder was “cruel and unusual punishment” and a violation of the Eighth Amendment.

States were forced to change laws because of that ruling. In North Carolina, a judge now must hold a sentencing hearing to consider mitigating factors before issuing a life sentence with no possibility for parole if the person convicted of premeditated murder was younger than 18 at the time of the crime.

Lovette was 17 in March 2008, when prosecutors contend he and DeMario Atwater kidnapped Carson, 22, from her home early in the morning. They forced Carson into the back seat of her SUV, drove her to ATMs and withdrew cash. Carson’s body was found near dawn in the middle of the street in a wooded Chapel Hill neighborhood about a mile from her home and the UNC campus. She had been shot four times with a handgun and once with a shotgun. Atwater, who is serving life in prison for murder, kidnapping, robbery and carjacking, fired the shotgun. Lovette fired the first four shots, investigators said.

“This is one of the most heinous crimes I’ve ever prosecuted,” Woodall told Baddour on Monday.

With Carson’s parents sitting behind him, Woodall described their daughter as a college student doing the right thing. She was studying when Lovette and Atwater came into her home. They drove her around as she pleaded with her assailants and asked them to pray with her.

When Lovette was arrested on charges of kidnapping, robbery and murder, he was living with his mother, Melissa Lovette, on Shepherd Street in Durham.

Melissa Lovette ran a small day-care business in the basement of their home – midway between Duke University and N.C. Central University, where her husband and Lovette’s father had worked.

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New shops spread into vacant spaces, malls as valley shakes off fiscal recession

This year is shaping up to be busy for local retail professionals, as malls fill in empty spaces vacated by stores that didn’t survive the recession and developers resume work on stalled projects.

International Council of Shopping Centers spokesman Jesse Tron said recently that retailers and shopping centers are adapting to a new normal in the post recession.

“It’s now more about value creation and asset management than growing portfolios. It’s about having the most productive store or shopping center that we can have,” Tron said. “Centers nationwide are adding retailers, but not generally building new shopping centers, which is controlling the vacancy issue.”

Local centers with new tenants abound now, with many outlets getting a slew of new shops this year.

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At Tivoli Village, open spaces are steadily being filled with new restaurants.

Later this month, Bradley Ogden’s Hops and Harvest will open in the space vacated by Bottles and Burgers by Double Helix. Earlier this year, Poppy Den replaced Petra, and Echo & Rig is expected to open in the summer. The center’s park and playground will also reopen near Pizza Lounge in about a month, leasing assistant Sam Waters said.

Inside Market LV at Tivoli Village, View Wine Bar & Kitchen also opened recently. Just down the way is makeup store Era by Ciara. General manager Venessa Patino said the new eateries have helped bring more traffic into the center, albeit not a lot.

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Tivoli Village’s first phase, which is almost completely leased, opened in April 2011. The second phase is now under construction by developer Great Wash Park, with a scheduled opening in spring 2015.

EHB Cos. is building the $350 million Renaissance, a 700,000-square-foot enclosed shopping center across the street from Tivoli. The plans include more than 30 retail spaces and room for three department stores. Renaissance has an expected opening of 2015.

Farther west, the 1.6 million-square-foot Shops at Summerlin is being developed on a 106-acre retail and commercial site along the Las Vegas Beltway south of Red Rock Resort. Renamed from Summerlin Centre, the shops will feature a two-level, 180,Welcome to buy christian louboutin shoes from our online store.000-square-foot Macy’s department store and a two-level, 200,000-square-foot Dillard’s. In all, the Shops at Summerlin is slated to feature 125 shops and a nine-story office building. It’s scheduled to open in late 2014.

Construction on the center was halted in 2008 when its original owner, General Growth Properties, underwent a Chapter 11 bankruptcy because of the recession. The Howard Hughes Corp. is the current developer of the estimated $1 billion project.

Downtown, the Las Vegas Premium Outlets-North expansion is estimated to finish by 2015 and add 35 stores to the center.

Further east in Henderson, The Galleria at Sunset is about to launch a $7 million renovation that will eliminate the purple, yellow and orange motif forever. Stone, dark woods and cream colors will replace the bright colors once the project is complete.

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Vince Camuto, for example, is slated to open its first 1,100-square-foot Las Vegas store at the Fashion Show mall in late June.

In February, one of seven Macy’s Men stores opened at the 32-year-old mall, and soon, shops like Lush, Joe’s Jeans and the Disney store will join the center. Recently, Express unveiled its remodeled store. Also, Urban Outfitters, is set to open a 13,000-square-foot store, and there are 22 tenants in active negotiations with General Growth that are first to market, expanding or relocating inside the Fashion Show, representing 76,000 square feet in active deals.

The Forum Shops at Caesars has had 10 new retailers open recently, including first-to-market brands Alfred Dunhill, Hublot, Breitling, Panerai, L.K. Bennett, Sandro and Sergio Rossi. Six more new tenants are coming soon including Van Cleef & Arpels, M Missoni, REDValentino and luxury Western outfitter Kemo Sabe. Carmine’s NYC Italian Family Restaurant also is set to open this year. And finally, five retailers already in the center have expanded or remodeled: Michael Kors, Cache, bebe, Roman Times and Tod’s.

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“I don’t wear a mask and a black cape and all that stuff,” said Bench, 70. “I’m a good speaker. I enjoy going to Rotary clubs and Kiwanis clubs.”

The native of Syracuse, N.Y., is chairman of Cary Crime Stoppers, a local nonprofit that has had a role in some of the town’s closest-watched investigations lately.

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The son and grandson of police officers, he doesn’t credit himself for his group’s recent success. Crime Stoppers still runs much as it did when Bench took the helm a decade ago: Callers dial 919-226-CRIM and are routed to the Cary Police Department.

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He’d spend afternoons at the radio, waiting to hear that his pa was heading home. Later he would become an expert in telephone systems, and he has always parked himself at the edge of police and civilian culture.

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In his absence, Bench hopes the group pushes harder to get its name out. As the police department has tried to broaden its public face, so too might its civilian supporters. Cary’s Citizens Assisting Police group also has seen growing popularity in recent years.

“Everybody wants to be a cop or fireman,” Bench said. “You guys got the glory job. Nobody wants to be the telephone man.”

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Illustrated by Japanese artist Natsko Seki, the London guide renders sites like the Tate Modern and Regent's Canal -- sites chosen because they express the "spirit of London," she said -- in her signature style, which super-imposes hand-drawn sketches and colors on top of still photographs.

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While LV remains the world’s number one luxury brand, Prada and Gucci are rapidly gaining ground, according to a new global brand report by Millward Brown Optimor as reported by Bloomberg.

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Luis Vuitton ranked 29th overall, just ahead of Samsung, which surged 51 percent in brand value to $21.4 billion. Facebook tallied 31st, having plunged 36 percent in value to $21.2 billion (click here for a full set rankings).

Rolex, Chanel, Cartier, Burberry, Fendi and Coach rounded out the Top 10 luxury companies. For some reason Wal-Mart didn’t make the luxury cut (although they finished a solid 18th among all global brands, at $36.2 billion). I think I’ll still buy my classy socks there.

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La Center high losing patron of the arts

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There are presidential photos shot by Pulitzer Prize winner David Hume Kennerly in a hallway. There's a sarcophagus mask from Egypt behind a Plexiglas case in the library. And, hanging atop the school's front entrance, a massive sculpture representing the solar system expands across the ceiling.

Art and drama teacher Don Landes-McCullough is the school's archivist, its curator and its biggest cheerleader.

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Looking closely at a model of the HMS Victory — the oldest naval vessel still in commission, the replica of which is displayed in the school's library — Landes-McCullough reflected on a decades-spanning career spent bringing students closer to art.

"There's so much detail in here," he said, referencing the art displays in the library, and elsewhere in the school, "because everything here was chosen for a reason."

For decades, Landes-McCullough was the point person for making those decisions. In 2005, he contributed $13,500 worth of art to the school. A lifelong art lover, self-taught in various media, those who know him say he isn't above spending his own time or money on artistic pursuits.

He's twice traveled to Italy to study marble carving. He regularly writes his own plays — including his latest, "Prairie Matinee," melding improv, scripted theater and videotaped segments. And he's taken students to glass sculpture conventions in Seattle.

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The retirement has reverberated outside the walls of the high school, with community members trying to start a scholarship endowment in his name.

La Center City Councilor Elizabeth Cervany is one of the community members pushing for the scholarship to take shape. However, before that happens, she and others will have to raise $10,000.

Cervany has known Landes-McCullough since she moved to La Center in 1992.

During the early 2000s, Landes-McCullough and Cervany helped organize the La Center Arts Festival, which brought various artists and craftsmen to the city, along with an estimated 2,500 visitors. Some of the artists were big names in their fields, including glass artists Dale Chihuly and Fritz Dreisbach, along with contemporary artist David Garcia.

"His passion is one of those contagious things that instills other people with excitement," Cervany said. "He's done some amazing things for such a small district. Even bigger schools don't have what it has."

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Landes-McCullough said he didn't know about the scholarship endowment, but was flattered nonetheless. But it fits his goal: inspiring students to pursue creative lives outside of school.

His final project is intended to do just that. It will meld photography, costume design and theater.

Students are designing paper costumes centered on fairy tale themes. Actors will wear the costumes and be photographed in front of a backdrop as they act out a scene.

As part of the project, Landes-McCullough is teaching the students how to make prosthetics, so they can transform actors into strange-looking creatures. The end results — photographed scenes of wonder — will go into the students' professional portfolio.

With retirement looming, Landes-McCullough vows not to forget about art. For the guy who can't sit still, that's not in his nature.

"I think I was born doing art," he said. "It was just something I always did."