North Carolina Lawyers Weekly

The odds of a probation officer arriving at a probationer’s apartment right before a mail carrier delivers a package filled with prescription drugs are slim.

Tagged with: Drug Trafficking N.C. Court of Appeals N.C. Supreme Court

The state trooper fired in 2009 for lying to his superiors about what happened to his $45 state-issued, wide-brimmed hat has been granted a new lease on life by the North Carolina Supreme Court. In its Dec. 18 decision, the ...

Tagged with: Sidebar State Trooper

An Internet search history can reveal a lot about a person – or a state. The Estately blog has released its annual list of “What Each State Googled More than Any Other State in 2015,” and the results are as ...

Prominent Charlotte criminal defense lawyer Christopher Fialko is going solo. His current firm, Rudolf Widenhouse & Fialko, announced earlier this month that Fialko will be kicking off the New Year by separating from his longtime law partners and opening his ...

The sign read: “Ski Beech Caution! You are in a High Mountain Environment & May Encounter Snow & Ice on Stairs & Walkways. Be Aware and Watch Your Step.” It wasn’t the ice below plaintiff Rachel Palacino, though, that turned ...

Charlie Brown is going to have a rough Christmas. Peter Robbins, the former child actor who gave a voice to Charlie Brown in the beloved“Peanuts” TV specials, has been sent to prison for nearly five years after pleading guilty to ...

Whenever a judge begins an order by describing the case at hand as having a “protracted and sordid history,” it’s a safe bet that what follows is not going to be warm-and-fuzzy. After using the line quoted above to open ...

It may not be as flagrantly egregious as swiping a Toys for Tots consignment, but at least one bad-intentioned bandito recently made off with 1,000 Christmas trees shortly after the shipment from North Carolina and Virginia arrived at a Miami ...

HIALEAH, Fla — Talk about some loose change. A Miami-area mayor who is feuding with his local commission tried to use 360,000 pennies and nickels — that’s 28 buckets full of coins — to pay a $4,000 ethics fine. Instead ...

Tagged with: Ethics

MOUNT JOY, Pa. — A central Pennsylvania woman accused of running a prostitution service out of her home says she charged only for massages, and that any sex that occurred with clients afterward was just “free fun.” Thirty-two-year-old Crystal Sweigart ...