North Carolina Lawyers Weekly

A North Carolina judge has restored custody of three U.S.-born children to their deported Mexican father.

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The president of the North Carolina chapter of the NAACP says newly discovered notes by the prosecutor in the Wilmington 10 case show he engaged in racial profiling to select 12 people more likely to convict the suspects.

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The Florida sheriff's office that investigated the disappearance of Casey Anthony's 2-year-old daughter overlooked evidence that someone in their home did a Google search for "fool-proof" suffocation methods on the day the girl was last seen alive.

A computer database that could help officials track prescription drug abuse is getting little use by North Carolina's doctors and pharmacies.

Six employees of the Caldwell County Sheriff's Office have resigned from their posts following an internal investigation.

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Groups challenging Republican-drawn redistricting maps before the N.C. Supreme Court are pushing for the recusal of a conservative justice who won reelection with the aid of nearly $2 million in political ads paid for by GOP-aligned organizations.

Authorities in Hickory have arrested a man after they say he fell through the celing of a church and was found naked inside.

North Carolina's top auditor said Tuesday that the country's third-largest community college system should stop tipping off campus administrators weeks before a record check is coming.

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A former Gastonia-area pastor faces trial in February on charges he traveled to Haiti during a church ministry and had sex with two minors.

The trailing Democratic Party candidate for lieutenant governor said Monday she won't seek a statewide recount, admitting that a new tally was unlikely to make up the nearly 6,900 votes she needs. And it would cost North Carolina's 100 counties at least $1.5 million to recount.