DURHAM (AP) A North Carolina judge has dismissed lawsuits filed by the woman who gained attention for accusing a group of Duke University lacrosse players of raping her at a party. The Herald-Sun of Durham reports 40-year-old Crystal Mangum filed lawsuits ...

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DURHAM (AP) A breach-of-contract lawsuit brought against Duke University by a soccer player accused of sexual misconduct has been resolved, but neither party will reveal the terms. The News & Observer reports the case ended July 30, months after Ciaran McKenna won ...

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DURHAM (AP) North Carolina school districts are set to sue for hundreds of millions of dollars a court previously ruled was owed them. The North Carolina School Boards Association scheduled an August 1 news conference in Durham to announce a ...

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DURHAM (AP) One of the prosecutors who tried the 2001 North Carolina killing featured in “The Staircase” documentary series has died. Police say Freda Black, a former Durham assistant district attorney, was found dead in her home on July 29. ...

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DURHAM (AP) A real-estate developer’s mysterious death has been ruled a homicide due to strangulation weeks after his son said he found his father with a dog leash wrapped around his neck and the dog nearby. The North Carolina Office ...

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DURHAM (AP) A judge dismissed the criminal case Feb. 19 against the first of eight protesters standing trial on charges of toppling a Confederate statue last summer in North Carolina. Dante Strobino appeared in court for a brief trial on three ...

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GREENSBORO, N.C. (AP) — About 5,500 faculty will be represented in a class-action lawsuit alleging two prestigious North Carolina medical schools conspired to depress their wages by agreeing not to poach professors from each other. U.S. District Judge Catherine Eagles ...

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