Sidebar ponders what Blackbeard would think were he to encounter a modern digital pirate. It seems a safe assumption that he would not think highly of those who download and share files illegally, not because he disagreed with the act ...
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Read More »Driving while under the influence is no small offense. But leaving your DWI hearing to sell prescription pills to an undercover officer in the court’s parking lot is a significantly greater matter. That’s what a Whiteville-area woman did early last ...
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Read More »When Senior Resident Superior Court Judge Ola Lewis determined that there was a conflict of interest between the state and defendant Jeffrey Smith, a Town of Dublin commissioner facing multiple charges related to gaming machines, she went full Oprah ...
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Read More »Creeping footsteps are associated with fear and danger. But what about creeping footnotes? Should they too be cause for alarm? If so, it’s perhaps time to start ringing the bells, according to a blog post by a former North Carolina ...
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Read More »As you may have heard, the University of Virginia did not have a happy experience in this year’s NCAA basketball tournament. But the school can at least take solace that for the sixth time in seven years it is tops ...
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Read More »If Larry Recio listened to Will Smith instead of Atlanta rapper Bloody Jay, he might still be a free man. But according to a recent 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruling, Recio’s Facebook post “It’s Always Tucked, Kuz I’ll ...
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Read More »The perfect vacation is a myth. Whether it be lost luggage, food poisoning, severe sunburn or switcheroos at resorts and hotels, the unexpected can ruin meticulously planned good times. Some of us grin through the inevitable snafus. Others give ...
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Read More »Brunswick County Senior Resident Superior Court Judge Ola Lewis is butting heads with twin brother prosecutors over their push to keep accused heroin and fentanyl traffickers locked up under $1 million bonds. Lewis, who is receiving treatment for liver cancer ...
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Read More »March Madness is here. The time where college basketball fanatics, casual fans, and the wholly disinterested gather in office break rooms to drop off their tournament prognostications and a couple of dollars for the pot. But before you fill out ...
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Read More »When Sidebar was a practicing attorney long ago, he was fond of telling clients they should “Never ever write anything in an email that you wouldn’t want to hear read out loud on the 11 o’clock news.” Once you send ...
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