Crime

Laura Leslie and Maggie Brown, WRAL — The majority of child injury deaths in North Carolina last year were due to gunfire, officials said on Monday. Child deaths associated with firearms …
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Travis Fain, WRAL – People who have finished felony prison sentences, but are still on probation or parole, should be able to vote in North Carolina, a panel of state …
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Will Doran, News & Observer – Darryl Howard spent nearly 25 years in prison for two murders in Durham that he didn’t commit. Now he will be able to get …
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 Travis Fain, WRAL – Support for a once-simple bill to close a loophole in North Carolina’s domestic violence laws has crumbled at the statehouse after lawmakers added extra language in …
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Lucille Sherman, News & Observer – Law enforcement agencies would be banned from providing jail mugshots to some companies under a bill sponsored by both Democrats and Republicans in the North …
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WRAL – A bill that could be on the Senate floor by the end of the week would make unauthorized possession of the deadly narcotic fentanyl a felony. Simple possession …
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Lucille Sherman and Will Doran, News & Observer – Following the killing of eight people, most of them Asian women, in Atlanta this week, and a spike in anti-Asian violence …
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Colin Campbell, News & Observer – Senate legislation would require law-enforcement agencies to report disciplinary actions and some incidents of officers using force to a new database, but the proposal …
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Kate Murphy, News & Observer – Some North Carolina state senators have introduced a bill that would expand the rights of college students accused of sexual misconduct in all 16 UNC System …
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Gary Robertson, AP – Republican legislation ordering North Carolina’s sheriffs to note the immigration status of jail inmates and assist federal agents who want to detain them received state Senate …
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