GREENSBORO, N.C. (AP) — Police say a North Carolina woman is accused of driving away after her car hit and injured a pedestrian last fall. The victim died this week.  News outlets report Nyquasia Shybreal Rowell, 22, of High Point ...

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  A farmer who was seriously injured after he stopped on the side of a road to fix his truck and was struck by a van that had veered off the road has confidentially settled a pre-lawsuit claim against the ...

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CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — A motorist has been charged in a fatal hit-and-run in North Carolina’s largest city that occurred when a sedan struck a youth riding a bicycle, police said. Charlotte-Mecklenburg police said Rodney Lycurgus McCorkle Jr., 19, was ...

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Defendant was charged with assault with a deadly weapon inflicting serious injury and felony hit-and-run for running over the boyfriend of defendant’s former paramour. The jury convicted defendant on both charges. The trial court need not have instructed the jury ...

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Leaving an accident scene to drive yourself or an injured person to the hospital is not against the law, the North Carolina Court of Appeals declared in a decision that reversed a felony hit-and-run conviction. In granting Michael Scaturro Jr. ...

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State v. Scaturro (Lawyers Weekly No. 011-176-17, 18 pp.) (Hunter Murphy, J.) (Richard Dietz, J., concurring in the result only without separate opinion) Appealed from New Hanover County Superior Court (Phyllis Gorham, J.) N.C. App. Holding: Although defendant left the ...

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State v. Barnes (Lawyers Weekly No. 15-16-0185, 8 pp.) (Chris Dillon, J.) Appealed from Mecklenburg County Superior Court (H. William Constangy, J.) N.C. App. Unpub. Editor’s Note: On the Court of Appeals’ website, this case is listed as State v. ...

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A Brevard woman has pleaded guilty to felony hit-and-run and misdemeanor death by motor vehicle in the 2013 death of a Wilmington cyclist.

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State v. Williams (Lawyers Weekly No. 14-07-0670, 10 pp.) (Linda Stephens, J.) Appealed from Buncombe County Superior Court (Richard Doughton, J.) N.C. App. 14-1 Holding: Even though defense counsel failed to move to dismiss the felony hit and run charge, ...

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A Kure Beach man faces charges in connection with a hit-and-run wreck that killed two people who were trying to aid a truck driver on a snow-covered Interstate 40.

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