A call Monday by South Carolina’s governor for the removal of the Confederate battle flag from the state capitol grounds was swiftly followed by announcements from additional states, major…
The University of North Carolina School of Law could lose $3 million in state funding—amounting to more than 10 percent of its budget—as a result of a proposal by a…
Some court officials in North Carolina can refuse to perform marriages based on a sincerely held religious objection, according to a new law passed on Thursday.
An ethics complaint accuses the executive director of the North Carolina Center on Actual Innocence of trying to exonerate a client by surreptitiously collecting DNA from a water bottle.
A Raleigh police officer and his wife had hoped to get $750,000 in damages after a free cup of Starbucks coffee spilled in his lap and burned his inner thigh.
Once a highly regarded military leader in the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, retired four-star general David Petraeus on Thursday was sentenced to two years of probation and ordered to pay…
Captured by the Taliban in 2009 after disappearing from his post in Afghanistan, an American soldier was then rescued last year in a controversial prisoner exchange. Now he has been…
A retired four-star general, known both for his wartime leadership in Iraq and Afghanistan and stepping down as CIA director after an affair came to light, has taken a plea…
A would-be class action lawsuit against the University of North Carolina and the NCAA claims the school failed to provide “legitimate educational instruction” to athletes.
A cigarette butt dropped in a parking lot by a suspect in a slaying at a North Carolina lawyer’s home was properly used as evidence even though police had no…
A live possum will be absent from the annual New Year’s Eve possum drop in Brasstown, North Carolina, this year following a three-year legal battle with People for the Ethical…
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