RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Harsher punishments for violent protests in North Carolina are being challenged by a prominent civil rights group, which said in a federal lawsuit filed Tuesday that several parts of a new anti-riot law are unconstitutional. The ...

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ELIZABETH CITY (AP) A North Carolina legislator has released more than 1,100 pages of un-redacted emails after a constituent and the American Civil Liberties Union sought them. The Associated Press reports Republican Rep. Beverly Boswell of Dare County released the ...

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RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Gov. Pat McCrory says he’s put his name on a court brief siding with a Virginia school district sued over a transgender teenager and the use of bathrooms. McCrory announced his decision Tuesday, a week after Attorney ...

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RALEIGH— Worried that state and local government could know too much about your private life? A civil rights group says more legislation is needed to regulate surveillance equipment that law enforcement agencies have at their disposal. The state chapter of ...

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RALEIGH — As same-sex couples in North Carolina await federal court rulings they hope will allow them to get married, Republican legislative leaders are making a last-minute move to block or delay the nuptials. House Speaker Thom Tillis and Senate leader ...

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RALEIGH — A federal judge in North Carolina has lifted stays in two cases challenging the state’s ban on same-sex marriages on Wednesday, a possible sign he’s preparing to strike down the prohibition as unconstitutional. Chief U.S. District Court Judge ...

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There was a game show in the late eighties called Bumper Stumpers where contestants had to decipher vanity license plates. Recently, it seems that that the state agencies given the duty to approve or deny certain vanity plates are the ...

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Advocacy groups are asking a federal judge to put key provisions of North Carolina's elections-overhaul law on hold for the November elections.

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Sheriffs in 23 out of 100 North Carolina counties haven't showed the ACLU that they are following a federal law to prevent rapes in prison, the civil rights group said.

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The American Civil Liberties Union says it was gearing up to attack North Carolina's year-old constitutional prohibition against same-sex marriage.

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