Meg Scott Phipps gets out of prison and makes an ankle brace stop in Greensboro before heading home to Alamance County.

The N&O and the Burlington Times-News each had an AP story, but the N&R’s Jonathan Jones gets this interesting quote:

Phipps was dogged by the press all day with journalists waiting for her outside the Alderson, W.Va., prison, in Greensboro and near her Alamance County home.

After meeting with her probation officer, she was defiant about whether she had done anything wrong.

“I have no regrets,” Phipps said. “The only regrets I have are being away from my children for three years and that I didn’t get to make the same speech the Duke lacrosse players made, professing their innocence.”

Refresh my memory: Phipps was a member of which party?

Update: The Times-News’ Mike Wilder caught up with Phipps and gave her the ‘Welcome Home’ treatment:

Phipps was clearly happy to be back in Alamance County’s Hawfields community on a warm spring afternoon.

After stepping outside of her family’s home, she raised one leg of her pants slightly to show the ankle bracelet she’ll wear while on house arrest.

“It’s just so nice to be home, it doesn’t even matter to me,” she said.

There’s a lot of new development in the Hawfields community and her teenage children are growing up fast. But Phipps said in some ways it seems time has barely passed…..

Phipps said her husband is a good cook, but he’d had a long couple of days going to West Virginia and back. Besides, she said, he’s had the burden of keeping the house going while she’s been away.

“It’s my turn to do the laundry and to cook,” she said.

Those simple tasks won’t even seem like chores as she gets back into life in the community where she grew up.

And having the chance to be a wife, mother, daughter and sister again far outweighs the appeal of being back in a nice home.

“It wouldn’t matter,” she said, “if it were a trailer.”