North Carolina Lawyers Weekly

Federal authorities accuse the co-owner of a Winston-Salem nonprofit substance abuse and mental health treatment center of trafficking large amounts of heroin across the country and from Mexico.

The former fire chief in Bryson City and his wife have been indicted on embezzlement charges.

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He's won asylum in Ecuador, but Julian Assange is no closer to getting there.

Carolina Beach is taking steps to become the first community in North Carolina to ban smoking on the beach.

North Carolina utilities regulators have ordered Duke Energy and Progress Energy to detail some of the deals they cut with major customers before their merger earlier this year.

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Federal agents arrested an Ohio man at a motel Wednesday morning in the killing of his on-and-off girlfriend during a vacation to North Carolina's Outer Banks earlier this summer, ending a monthlong nationwide manhunt.

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A 35-year-old North Carolina woman is facing three felony counts of making threats against a district judge.

A North Carolina man has pleaded guilty to a health-care fraud charge.

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New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, on behalf of 14 states, is urging the U.S. Supreme Court to uphold racial preferences in college admissions.

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While other Southern states already have drawn the line on the federal health care overhaul, North Carolina doesn't seem quite settled on whether to commit to insuring hundreds of thousands more people starting in 2014.

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