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The city of Charlottte will pay $1.5 million to settle a lawsuit over the fatal police shotting of Danquirs Franklin...
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The number of names atop a lawsuit accusing police of violently ambushing hundreds of Charlotte protesters in 2020 has grown tenfold since the case’s filing...
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For years, people in Raleigh were arrested for heroin possession—without having the drug. Now, they’re demanding answers...
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As 20-somethings, they went to prison—all leaders or members of a violet Charlotte crack-cocaine gang that preyed on vulnerable neighborhoods and...
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When discussing the value of lost time, Ashley Jackson shares a story from her father, Orrin - how when Ashley was 6 months old, he kissed her on the forehead...
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The Gaston County Board of Commissioners is facing legal action after a civil suit was filed Thursday by groups seeking the relocation of the county's Confederate...
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Multiple studies of traffic stops in North Carolina have come to the same conclusion: Black drivers are far more likely to be pulled over, searched and...
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A lawsuit claims a Raleigh police officer and his confidential informant framed more than a dozen people in a fake heroin sales scheme. The charges against...
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In response to a lawsuit filed by civil rights advocates, journalists, and protesters, a North Carolina Superior judge granted a temporary restraining order forcing...
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The family of an inmate killed in the Cleveland County jail nearly two years ago claims in a lawsuit that jailers knowingly placed two violent, mentally unstable...
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More than a year of pressure from law enforcement and his attorney to accept a plea bargain finally proved too much for Kenneth Kagonyera. The convicted murderer testified on Tuesday that...
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On his eighth day of freedom, from a 440 year imprisonment for a crime he says he never committed, Ronnie Long spends the evening at home cooking dinner...
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On the morning of April 27, Jeff Leardini, a highly regarded sixth-grade language arts teacher at Community House Middle School near Ballantyne, was summoned to the principal's office. When he arrived...
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Prosecutors have dismissed murder charges against three bouncers accused of killing a Charlotte nightclub patron more than two years ago. The decision to drop the charges comes...
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Attorneys trying to free a Monroe man convicted in of the state's largest child sex abuse cases filed court papers Monday saying that police used improper photo lineups that led children to identify...
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Sallie and Donald Saxon, accused of operating a high-priced prostitution ring in Charlotte, will plead not guilty, their defense attorney said. The husband and wife are scheduled...
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In the December 2006 issue of Charlotte mag, Ted Reed wrote a story titled "The Accused" about Jeff Leardini, the former Community House Middle School teacher who had been accused of improperly touching...
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Laurence Braun learned the hard way that being acquitted of a crime doesn't always stop you from being punished for it. Mr. Braun, the former co-owner of a New York company that defrauded...
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The former public works director for the Town of Forest City was found not guilty in Rutherford County Superior Court in four cases of embezzlement and obtaining property by false pretense. Scott H Doyle...
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Charlotte attorney Chris Fialko walked out of jail with a client Thursday and watched as the man hugged his 10-year-old daughter for the first time. Fialko represented Rober Wilcoxson who...
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The prosecution has begun presenting evidence in an unusual innocence hearing at which two North Carolina men are trying to prove they didn't kill a man, despite their guilty pleas to second-degree murder...
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Charlotte grocer Will Rhynes, convicted in 1996 in a 25-year drug distribution conspiracy, may not have to spend the rest of his life in prison. A federal appeals court has overturned Rhynes' life sentence...
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For three months, Larry Mackins feared he might spend the rest of his life in prison. The 43-year-old Charlotte bail bondsman was under federal indictment and knew the government's reputation...
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James Bernard Parker, sentenced to three life terms in one of North Carolina's biggest child sex assault cases, was set free Monday after 14 years behind bars. He walked out of a Brooklyn N.Y. courthouse and...
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In October, he stole $17 million and left the country, not contacting relatives until he was arrested in Mexico six months later. On Friday, David Scott Ghantt publicly apologized to his family...
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After more than three years of legal proceedings, officials have returned to Carolyn Nance all but two of the 16 horses seized from her when officials accused her of mistreating the animals...
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Family court is moving a lot slower in North Carolina because of the coronavirus pandemic. Nearly all divorce and child custody hearings are on hold until at least...
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Video evidence taped over with a segment from a daytime soap opera. A dismissed confession from a man never charged. A defense attorney's admission that he put on too...
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