The estate of a man who died after overdosing on methamphetamine while in the custody of the Cherokee County Sheriff’s Department has settled its lawsuit against the office for $1.8 million. Ellis Boyle of Knott & Boyle in Raleigh and ...

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Cherokee County has agreed to pay $4 million to a woman who was unlawfully removed from her home when she was a minor by Department of Social Services employees who created and executed a fraudulent document that illegally separated dozens of families ...

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  The city of Raleigh will pay $2 million to 15 plaintiffs who claim that officers with the Raleigh Police Department used brown sugar and an unreliable confidential informant to frame them for drug trafficking.  Abraham Rubert-Schewel and Emily Gladden of ...

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  A federal jury has awarded $4.6 million to a father and daughter after finding that Cherokee County and several of its Department of Social Services’ employees created and executed a fraudulent document to remove the girl from her father’s custody.  Dozens of families have alleged that Cherokee ...

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WASHINGTON (AP) — Robert Collier says that during the seven years he worked as an operating room aide at Parkland Memorial Hospital in Dallas, white nurses called him and other Black employees “boy.” Management ignored two large swastikas painted on ...

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BURLINGTON (AP) — Civil rights groups have settled a dispute with a North Carolina sheriff’s office over courthouse protests against a Confederate monument. The settlement guarantees that the grounds of the old Alamance County Courthouse must remain open to the ...

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WINSTON-SALEM (AP) — A law firm that advocates for victims of racial discrimination has filed a lawsuit over an incident in North Carolina in which it said a Black woman’s home came under siege by an armed group looking for ...

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  A man who was shot in the face by a Wilmington police officer has settled a pre-lawsuit claim against the city of Wilmington and the Wilmington Police Department for $275,000, his attorneys report. Micheal Littlejohn Jr. of Charlotte and ...

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  A Wilmington man who faced charges of first-degree rape and other sex crimes, all of which were eventually dismissed, has negotiated a $500,000 settlement with the detective who issued the warrants for his arrest, the man’s attorney reports. Carlos ...

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A national civil rights group has warned the leaders of the University of North Carolina that they should reconsider a $2.5 million settlement involving a statue of a Confederate soldier that protesters toppled last year at the system’s flagship campus. ...

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