North Carolina Lawyers Weekly

Asheville police are still trying to sort through problems in the department's evidence room. "I told my wife it kind of looked like my son's dorm room," Councilman Chris Pelly said.

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The gunman who killed six people at a Sikh temple in Wisconsin before being shot to death by police was identified Monday as a 40-year-old Army veteran and former leader of a white supremacist heavy metal band.

RALEIGH (AP) — A registered sex offender selected as an alternate delegate to the Republican National Convention from North Carolina resigned after his status was reported. Harvey L. West Jr., 41, resigned about an hour after The News & Observer of Raleigh reported his status online Thursday, the newspaper reported (http://bit.ly/OM8yXu).

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LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — A North Carolina man serving 50 years in prison for his role in the disappearance and death of an ex-girlfriend won't be allowed to try to show his attorney failed him at trial, the Kentucky Court of Appeals ruled Friday.

The U.S. is locking up more illegal immigrants than ever, generating lucrative profits for the nation's largest prison companies, and an Associated Press review shows the businesses have spent tens of millions of dollars lobbying lawmakers and contributing to campaigns.

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For this summer's Democratic National Convention, Charlotte will add thousands of police from outside departments and spend millions on training, equipment and temporary barriers. But their biggest aid in crowd control will be one they didn't have to purchase, build or teach: The layout of the city itself.

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North Carolina utilities regulators are hiring a former federal prosecutor and the Chicago law firm he heads to dig into whether they were misled ahead of the takeover creating America's largest electric company.

A challenge by two of the nation's largest cigarette makers alleging conflicts of interest in the Food and Drug Administration advisory panel's review of tobacco products can move forward, a federal judge has ruled.

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Supreme Court candidate Allen Loughry, the sole recipient of public campaign funds from a West Virginia pilot project, announced Monday that he had petitioned the Supreme Court to compel the release of the program's so-called rescue funding.

The American Civil Liberties Union in North Carolina has joined a number of other states is asking police for how they use automatic license plate readers to track and record movement.