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Crime

Gun violence, gun suicides leading cause of NC child injury deaths in 2020

3 years ago  •  Education, 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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Court: Let felons on probation, parole vote

3 years ago  •  Crime, Elections

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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Darryl Howard, wrongfully convicted of Durham double murder, pardoned by Gov. Cooper

4 years ago  •  Governor, Crime

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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This bill once made it easier to get domestic violence protective orders. Now it makes it harder.

4 years ago  •  Politics and Government, Crime

 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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Websites couldn’t publish jail mugshots to ‘extort’ people under a new NC bill

4 years ago  •  Politics and Government, Crime

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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Bill would make fentanyl possession a felony in NC

4 years ago  •  Crime, Politics and Government

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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NC legislators to reintroduce Hate Crimes Prevention Act in wake of Atlanta shootings

4 years ago  •  Politics and Government, Crime

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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NC could track police misconduct, shootings — but data would be secret

4 years ago  •  Politics and Government, Crime

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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NC bill aims to protect college students accused of sexual assault. Critics are wary.

4 years ago  •  Politics and Government, Crime

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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NC Senate OK’s bill telling sheriffs to act on ICE requests

4 years ago  •  Politics and Government, Crime

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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