NC school board member dies following assault

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) - The family of a longtime member of North Carolina's state school board says she has died from the injuries she suffered in a weekend assault.

By: The Associated Press | WNCT
Published: March 09, 2010

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RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) - The family of a longtime member of North Carolina's state school board says she has died from the injuries she suffered in a weekend assault.
Raleigh police and Kathy A. Taft's family said the 62-year-old Greenville woman died Tuesday.
Police spokesman Jim Sughrue says officers are now investigating the case as a homicide.
Her family said in a statement issued by WakeMed Hospital in Raleigh that Taft was attacked Saturday while staying at the Raleigh home of her boyfriend, who was in Florida at the time.
Taft has been on the state Board of Education since 1995. She was reappointed to serve a second term until March 2011.
Taft ran unsuccessfully for a state Senate seat in 2008. Her ex-husband is Tom Taft, a former state senator from Greenville.

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