North Carolina

Man to plead guilty in wrong-conviction case

A man will plead guilty to killing a woman in 1984, a crime that wrongly sent another man to prison for 18 years, his attorney said.

Willard E. Brown, 44, will plead guilty to the murder, rape and kidnapping of Deborah Sykes in exchange for one life sentence. The plea agreement, announced Friday by public defender Pete Clary, allows Brown to avoid the possibility of a death sentence.

Darryl Hunt spent 18 years in prison for killing Sykes, a newspaper copy editor in Winston-Salem. He was exonerated in February after DNA testing linked Brown to the crime, and police said Brown admitted committing the crimes and acting alone.

Philadelphia

Bush attends storied Army-Navy game

The roar of Air Force One and a tip of its wing over the playing field signaled President Bush’s arrival Saturday at the Army-Navy football game, a matchup steeped in tradition and shadowed today by the war in Iraq.

Asked on the field who he thought would win the game, Bush said: “The United States of America.”

Navy won the game, 42-13.