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Apr 1, 2025

Chatham County lawyer reprimanded

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Three centuries after he died in combat, the pirate Blackbeard — seen here in an early 17th-century engraving — is the focus of a copyright infringement suit against the state of North Carolina.
Sep 6, 2024

Legal battle swirls around video of Blackbeard’s sunken ship

A federal judge ruled that Rick Allen’s copyright infringement lawsuit against North Carolina over the unauthorized use of his underwater footage of Blackbeard’s ship can proceed, acknowledging valid claims.

A case prosecuted by the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of North Carolina led to 29- and 28-year sentences against two drug traffickers.
Mar 4, 2024

Court sentences traffickers to decades-long prison terms

GREENSBORO – A deadly 18-month-long narcotics conspiracy is sending two drug traffickers to federal prison for long terms. Cye Leance Frasier, 44, was sentenced Wednesday, Feb. 28, to 29 years, […]

A federal first-degree murder charge has been filed against a member of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians by the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Western District of North Carolina in a 2013 slaying on the Qualla Boundary.
Feb 19, 2024

Pair sentenced in meth trafficking case

CHARLOTTE — Two Gastonia men, one of them an armed released felon, were sentenced last week to long federal prison terms for trafficking methamphetamine in Gaston County, the U.S. Attorney’s […]


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