Already facing four attempted first-degree murder charges over June shootings at a Greenville, N.C., law firm parking lot and a nearby Wal-Mart, a 23-year-old man was indicted Monday by a…
A North Carolina police officer appears in court Tuesday on a voluntary manslaughter charge stemming from the fatal shooting of a black, former college football player who was apparently seeking…
The Durham, N.C., police chief says he doesn’t recall making a claimed remark about how a local lawyer, shot as an innocent bystander, deserved it because he sometimes represents indigent…
The city of Durham, N.C., is probing allegations that Police Chief Jose Lopez said a lawyer injured in a shooting deserved to be shot because he is a public defender.
This week the New York Police Department and Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced what they’re calling the “largest seizure of illegal guns in city history.”
Once upon a time, a clothesline was a standard feature of most back yards. But concern that publicly airing clean laundry attached with clothespins to a rope or wire was…
Even though it had been ordered by a North Carolina administrative law judge to stop issuing a temporary permit that allowed a Brasstown business to capture a wild possum and…
A North Carolina woman who pleaded guilty to being drunk and disorderly and resisting arrest has been sentenced to write an essay on how to behave like a lady in…
Updated: Police say man who had previously been denied a gun permit shot and seriously wounded four people Friday in Greenville, N.C., including an insurance adjuster in a vehicle in…
North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory signed a repeal of the state’s Racial Justice Act this week, saying the law had created “procedural roadblocks” to executions.
At first, those in charge of the maintenance at the historic Henderson County, N.C., courthouse tried poison to resolve an out-of-control rodent population.
Already serving a 54-year federal sentence over prior robberies, Keith Lauchon Jackson apparently felt he had little to lose by bolting Monday afternoon from the North Carolina courthouse where he…
A former North Carolina judge who gave up his seat on the bench in 2009 in the midst of an investigation over his continued membership on a corporate board and…
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