RALEIGH (AP) North Carolina’s environmental agency says it plans to ask a judge to impose tougher conditions on operations at a chemical plant that has long emitted a little-understood industrial compound. The state Department of Environmental Quality said it plans ...

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The outspoken, red Corvette-driving lawyer who wanted to add a black robe to his wardrobe and serve on the Superior Court bench for Bladen and Columbus counties has been suspended from the practice of law for five years. But Christopher ...

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DUBLIN (AP) — The State Bureau of Investigation has released the name of a man shot and killed by police in Bladen County this week. SBI spokeswoman Teresa West in a statement said that 24-year-old Declan Owen of Elizabethtown died ...

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BLADENBORO (AP) — A prosecutor says the FBI is looking into the hanging death of a black North Carolina teen after his family questioned the official ruling that he killed himself. Seventeen-year-old Lennon Lacy was found hanging by a dog ...

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Edwards v. County of Bladen. (Lawyers Weekly No. 11-16-0292, 10 pp.) (Cressie H. Thigpen Jr., J.) Appealed from Bladen County Superior Court. (Gregory A. Weeks, J.) N.C. App. Unpub. Click here for the full text of the opinion. Holding: A ...

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Plaintiff’s vehicle was struck from behind by a vehicle travelling at 45 mph.  Plaintiff lost consciousness in the collision. In March 2007, he underwent cervical decompression, a complete diskectomy, bilateral foraminotomies and decompression of the nerve roots.  He developed depression ...

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State v. Wright. (Lawyers Weekly No. 11-07-0231, 31 pp.) (Cressie H. Thigpen Jr., J.) Appealed from Bladen County Superior Court. (James F. Ammons Jr., J.) N.C. App. Click here for the full text of the opinion. Holding: Even though defendant ...

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This action arose from a fire and explosion that occurred at a feed and grain mill, which was owned and operated by the third-party defendants. The plaintiff was not employed by the feed and grain mill, but instead was employed ...

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