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Associated Press - January 7, 2010 4:15 AM ET
WHITEVILLE, N.C. (AP) - North Carolina's attorney general is pursuing an assault charge against the state's longest-serving lawmaker.
A spokeswoman for Attorney General Roy Cooper says state prosecutors plan to seek an indictment on Thursday charging state Sen. R.C. Soles with assault with a deadly weapon inflicting serious injury.
A grand jury last month found probable cause that the Columbus County Democrat acted criminally when he shot a man on his property in August.
Authorities have said Soles shot Thomas Kyle Blackburn after two intruders kicked in the front door of the lawmaker's secluded Tabor City home. Blackburn wasn't badly hurt.
Soles said last week he won't seek re-election this year to the General Assembly, where he was first elected in 1968.
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