February 6, 2012
FAYETTEVILLE (AP) — A former prosecutor in the case of a death row prisoner who's challenging his sentence under North Carolina's Racial Justice Act says race may have been an unconscious factor in jury selection, but not a significant one.
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January 30, 2012
FAYETTEVILLE (AP) — A judge says a hearing involving a killer who's the first on North Carolina's death row to use a new law to try to prove that race played a role in his sentence will continue as scheduled.
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January 19, 2012
RALEIGH (AP) — An unpublished study by Duke University researchers that says black students are more likely to switch to less difficult majors has upset some students, who say the research is emblematic of more entrenched racial problems.
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January 13, 2012
RALEIGH (AP) — An 88-year-old Rocky Mount man who was separated from his dog when he left his home under duress is about to move to a new place.
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January 10, 2012
RALEIGH (AP) — People sterilized against their will under a discredited state program should each be paid $50,000, a task force voted today, marking the first time a state has moved to compensate victims of a once-common public health practice calle...
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RALEIGH (AP) — A North Carolina committee is scheduled to recommend financial compensation for the hundreds of living victims of the state's eugenics-based sterilization program.The Eugenics Compensation Task Force is set to meet Tuesday morning. Me...
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January 9, 2012
RALEIGH (AP) — A North Carolina panel is tasked with answering a question that has not been answered before and seems to not have one: How do you repay people for taking away their ability to have children?
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December 29, 2011
RALEIGH (AP) — Members of a traveling Occupy group are meeting with civil rights leaders in Greensboro in an unusual confluence of interests of the mostly white anti-Wall Street movement and blacks.
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December 7, 2011
RALEIGH (AP) — If the holidays are truly a time for peace on earth and goodwill toward all, someone forgot to tell the Christmas tree people. For these holiday antagonists, there can be no yule truce: It's either a natural tree grown at a farm or an...
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December 6, 2011
RALEIGH (AP) — A job for their mom or dad. Money for the heating bill. Food or a place to live. Maybe gloves or boots. More and more, Santas say the children on their laps are asking for less — and Santa is promising less as well.
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November 30, 2011
RALEIGH (AP) — Occupy protesters disrupted a speech Wednesday by the CEO of Wells Fargo, shouting that his leadership "has led to the death of the American dream."
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November 17, 2011
RALEIGH (AP) — The prosecutor who dropped a charge against a Randolph County man whose nine penned deer were shot and killed by authorities said Thursday it's not clear that the North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission has the authority to destr...
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November 16, 2011
RALEIGH (AP) — North Carolina does not need to change a new law that gives death row inmates another way of challenging their sentences on the basis of racial bias, North Carolina's defense attorneys and the state NAACP said in a letter to state sen...
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November 15, 2011
RALEIGH (AP) — The legislature should act quickly to repeal a bill that allows death row prisoners to challenge their sentences on the grounds of racial bias, North Carolina's district attorneys argue in a letter to state senators.
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RALEIGH (AP) — The Legislature should act quickly to repeal a bill that allows death row prisoners to challenge their sentences on the grounds of racial bias, North Carolina's district attorneys argue in a letter to state senators.
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November 11, 2011
RALEIGH (AP) — Jerry Ensminger ticks off the list of cities where he's traveled with the documentary that tells the story of water contamination at Camp Lejeune: Woodstock, San Diego, New York City, San Francisco, Los Angeles — and coming this...
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November 9, 2011
RALEIGH (AP) — Prosecutors in the first case being heard under a North Carolina law that allows death row prisoners to challenge their sentences on the grounds of racial bias have filed a motion asking that a black judge be removed from presiding ov...
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October 13, 2011
RALEIGH (AP) — A meeting of the North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission ended abruptly Thursday when a supporter of a couple whose nine deer were shot and killed by state wildlife staff last month tried to speak to the panel.
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October 10, 2011
RALEIGH (AP) — More than 5,000 people from the United States and at least 25 other countries have signed an online petition protesting the killing of nine penned deer by North Carolina officials who said they had to shoot the deer to test them for d...
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October 4, 2011
RALEIGH (AP) — Government researchers have classified a chemical found in the drinking water at Camp Lejeune for decades as a known cause of cancer in humans.
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September 29, 2011
RALEIGH (AP) — In the past, people struggling financially came to the Crisis Ministry in Cary searching for help with their electrical bills. Now, their problems are bigger, and they're more likely to need help keeping a roof over their heads.
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September 24, 2011
RALEIGH (AP) — Fifteen hours after Troy Davis was executed, two men walked out of a North Carolina prison after being exonerated of a murder they had pleaded guilty to committing more than 10 years ago.
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September 21, 2011
RALEIGH (AP) — A federal judge has given the government until Dec. 1 to respond to a motion by attorneys to get a new trial for the former Army doctor convicted of the 1970 killings of his pregnant wife and two daughters at Fort Bragg.
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RALEIGH (AP) — Attorneys for the former Army doctor convicted of the 1970 murders of his pregnant wife and two daughters at Fort Bragg are seeking a new trial on the basis of DNA evidence.In motions filed Wednesday, attorneys for Jeffrey MacDonald a...
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August 25, 2011
BUXTON, N.C. (AP) — Thousands were fleeing an exposed strip of coastal villages and beaches off North Carolina on Thursday as Irene approached, threatening to become the most powerful hurricane to hit the East Coast in seven years.
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