http://www.wral.com/news/blog/1028438/WRAL-TV 5 Anchor/Reporter David Crabtree offers his take on local and national news coverage, as well as observations from his reporting and travels.Copyright 2009 by Capitol Broadcasting Company. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.Fri, 15 Aug 2008 20:01:59 -0400Fri, 15 Aug 2008 20:01:59 -040060http://www.wral.com/news/blogpost/3388549/Edinburgh, ScotlandFri, 15 Aug 2008 20:01:59 -0400Newshttp://www.wral.com/news/blogpost/3388549/http://www.wral.com/news/blogpost/3327025/From this morning's London Times, by the numbers ...Mon, 04 Aug 2008 15:11:00 -0400Newshttp://www.wral.com/news/blogpost/3327025/http://www.wral.com/news/blogpost/3326935/"There will be heavy security in and around the Cathedral."Mon, 04 Aug 2008 15:13:57 -0400Newshttp://www.wral.com/news/blogpost/3326935/http://www.wral.com/news/blogpost/3320944/Five years ago today, I buried my mother. For 47 years, she was married to my father. It was not a marriage without struggles. Like most middle-class families of the ‘50s and ‘60s, we had our dysfunction, our issues, our worries and our periods of pain. Much was self-inflicted. In the midst of this, my mother kept her sense of humor, her love of the living Christ and her joy of hope. It became her legacy of positive thinking and went well beyond talk of glasses being half full or half empty.Sat, 02 Aug 2008 17:36:01 -0400Newshttp://www.wral.com/news/blogpost/3320944/http://www.wral.com/news/blogpost/3318362/Canterbury is special – really special. It was special to Saint Thomas Becket. It was special to Geoffrey Chaucer. It was special to the 11-year-old who began the Christmas Eve mass last year with his seamless singing of “Now in David’s Royal City.” It has been special to countless pilgrims and to those who call it home.Sat, 02 Aug 2008 17:27:56 -0400Newshttp://www.wral.com/news/blogpost/3318362/http://www.wral.com/news/blogpost/2761332/No matter how humble we try to be, I think it’s safe to say all of us have our moments. Ego can take over, and we feel some sense, some rush of something that feels like power. When that happens, we feel sort of big.Sat, 19 Apr 2008 12:34:31 -0400Newshttp://www.wral.com/news/blogpost/2761332/http://www.wral.com/news/blogpost/2756150/New York is a marvelous place to spend time. It’s fitting that Pope Benedict XVI chose to split his time between America’s capital and America’s largest city. He left Washington this morning, accomplishing much of what he set out to do.Fri, 18 Apr 2008 13:50:58 -0400Newshttp://www.wral.com/news/blogpost/2756150/http://www.wral.com/news/blogpost/2755967/"I was greatly moved as our Holy Father reached out to leaders of other faiths desiring to work together to bring peace to the most troubled parts of the world," writes Msgr. Tim O'Connor, of St. Michael the Archangel Catholic Church in Cary.Fri, 18 Apr 2008 11:27:29 -0400Newshttp://www.wral.com/news/blogpost/2755967/http://www.wral.com/news/blogpost/2752678/Close to 50,000 people filled Nationals Park like it was the opening day of the World Series. They cheered as the Holy Father emerged from, of all things, the dugout! Fri, 18 Apr 2008 11:40:24 -0400Newshttp://www.wral.com/news/blogpost/2752678/http://www.wral.com/news/blogpost/2746676/The theme of Pope Benedict's visit is "a message of hope," and those we've talked with who have either seen Benedict XVI or heard his voice say they "believe it."Wed, 16 Apr 2008 23:30:07 -0400Newshttp://www.wral.com/news/blogpost/2746676/