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Plummeting balance in federal crime victims fund sparks alarm among states,...
An attendee looks at a series of banners for National Crime Victims’ Rights Week Candlelight Vigil on the National Mall on April 24, 2024, in Washington, D.C. The Justice Department’s Office for...
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AG Loretta Lynch to NC law school grads: Diversity is our greatest strength.
Former U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch addressed NC Central School of Law on May 3, 2024. (Photo: Screengrab from NCCU video stream)In a week marked by pro-Palestinian protests on university...
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Dennis Gaddy of the Community Success Initiative on second chances,...
Dennis Gaddy, Executive Director of the Community Success Initiative (Photo: Clayton Henkel) For most people who leave North Carolina prisons each year, readjusting to life on the outside is incredibly...
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Porn star Stormy Daniels in NYC hush money trial alleges sexual encounter...
Former U.S. President Donald Trump attends his trial for allegedly covering up hush money payments at Manhattan Criminal Court on May 7, 2024, in New York City. Trump has been charged with 34 counts of...
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State Senate considers bill to automatically transfer more juveniles to adult...
Photo: Getty ImagesIt’s been several years since North Carolina joined the rest of the nation by enacting “Raise the Age” legislation that did away with the presumption that 16- and 17-year-olds...
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Still much unknown on how marijuana policies would change in states under...
A manager of a medical marijuana dispensary shows marijuana plant buds. (Photo by Kevork Djansezian/Getty Images)U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland has proposed loosening the illegal status of...
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New report shows violence against people experiencing homelessness increasing
People in this tent encampment off of U.S. 70 near Garner were forced to move last month. (Photo: Greg Childress)The National Coalition for the Homeless (NCH) reported this week that there have been...
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North Carolina appeals court orders resentencing for man convicted of murder...
The North Carolina Court of Appeals (Photo: nccourts.gov)The North Carolina Court of Appeals this week ordered a trial court to resentence a man imprisoned for murder he committed when he was a child....
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Star witness in Trump trial tells of plot to conceal porn star hush money...
U.S. Sens. J.D. Vance, R-Ohio, and Tommy Tuberville, R-Ala., listen as former U.S. President Donald Trump speaks to the media outside Manhattan Criminal Court on May 13, 2024, during his trial for...
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GOP politicians rush to Manhattan to line up behind Trump as hush money trial...
Rep. Byron Donalds, R-Fla., North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum, and U.S. Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, R-La., watch as former U.S. President Donald Trump walks towards the courtroom for his hush money...
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Controversial bill requiring sheriffs to cooperate with ICE hits a snag in NC...
Image: Adobe StockOn Wednesday, the North Carolina House rejected the Senate version of House Bill 10, a controversial measure that requires cooperation between all North Carolina sheriffs and U.S....
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NC Senate approves bill making it a crime to wear a mask in public
An airline passenger waiting for his flight looks at his phone while wearing a protective face mask. Legislation making its way through the North Carolina legislature would make mask wearing in public...
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U.S. Supreme Court delivers rare big win to American consumers
The U.S. Supreme Court rejected a plea from high-cost payday lenders on Thursday to invalidate the funding model of the federal Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. (Photo by Al Drago/Getty...
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Biden administration seeks to speed some asylum cases with new immigration...
Asylum seekers board a bus en route to a shelter in New York City on May 18, 2023. The Biden administration announced changes Thursday, May 16, 2024, meant to speed processing of asylum claims. (Photo...
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More than half of states sue to block Biden Title IX rule protecting LGBTQ+...
More than half of states, all with Republican attorneys general, have sued to block a recent U.S. Department of Education final rule seeking to protect LGBTQ+ students from discrimination. (Image:...
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Prosecution rests in Trump hush money trial, after former fixer Cohen is grilled
Former President Donald Trump appears in court during his trial for allegedly covering up hush money payments at Manhattan Criminal Court on May 20, 2024, in New York City. Trump faces 34 felony counts...
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NC Court of Appeals dismisses gun charge against homeless man visiting UNC...
North Carolina Court of Appeals (Photo: Clayton Henkel) The North Carolina Court of Appeals on Tuesday threw out the conviction of Joseph John Radomski III, a homeless man who was convicted for...
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A proposed NC law would limit family and public access to death records
Photo: Getty Images Autopsy results would be kept secret from the public in cases under criminal investigation, under a proposed change to North Carolina law discussed Tuesday. Autopsy results in...
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NC Senate panel okays bill to roll back automatic expungements of ‘not...
Criminal justice reform advocates voiced opposition on Wednesday to a bill that would amend the 2020 Second Chance Act to make expungement of certain criminal records harder to obtain. (Photo: Clayton...
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NC House declines to concur with Senate changes to law governing mask wearing
(Photo by Carol Coelho/Getty Images)The North Carolina House on Wednesday rejected controversial Senate amendments to a bill that would, among other things, ban wearing masks in public, even for health...
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