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…
A federal appeals court has reinstated the conviction of a North Carolina real estate closing attorney who faces a sentence of up to 25 years in a mortgage-fraud case.
Two employees of a small North Carolina law firm are facing criminal charges, after an insurance investigation of a January 2012 fire there uncovered evidence of alleged thefts from their…
A North Carolina judge reduced three death sentences to life in prison on Thursday, spurring an outburst by a brother of one of the victims, a slain state trooper.
A North Carolina lawyer had initially intended to fight a criminal obstruction of justice case over the work he did for clients charged with driving while intoxicated.
A North Carolina judge has halted the traditional New Year’s Eve Possum drop in the town of Brasstown, saying the state didn’t have the authority to issue a permit for…
A former office manager who has repaid $350,000 to the Raleigh law firm at which she once worked is being held at a North Carolina jail on felony embezzlement charges…
Just as an Article 32 military hearing was about to get under way concerning evidence that could be used in an unusual criminal case against a U.S. Army general concerning…
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