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ELIZABETHTOWN, N.C. (AP) — A North Carolina sheriff's deputy accused of assaulting a man with a flashlight has resigned from his job, authorities said. A spokesperson for the district attorney's office said Michael Hal Shaw II, 39, of Elizabethtown, was booked into the Brunswick County jail after he was indicted by a Bladen County grand jury on Monday on a charge of assault with a deadly weapon inflicting serious injury, news outlets reported.

Christopher Shaws The Power Line escaped our attention until recently, but the book is an uncommon accomplishment that merits a belated review. Shaw, who lives in Bristol and has retired after 20 years of teaching creative writing at Middlebury College, preceded that career with a long stint in northern New York. His time on the other side of Lake Champlain, both as a guide and as editor of Adirondack Life, richly informs The Power Line. The book declares itself to be a novel, and Shaw goe...