A trial court administrator in Mecklenburg County Superior Court was recently named to the board of directors of the National Association of Court Management. Charleston Carter was sworn in alongside other new board members at the NACM’s annual conference held ...

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RALEIGH (AP) Two election-related bills became North Carolina law June 20, despite Gov. Roy Cooper’s formal objections, as lawmakers completed overriding his vetoes. The House voted by nearly identical party-line margins to override Cooper’s vetoes and enact the Republican-authored bills, ...

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RALEIGH (AP) North Carolina Senate Republicans began carrying out overrides June 19 on a pair of Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper’s vetoes of election-related legislation. Cooper had complained that the bills meddle in elections and continue GOP efforts to reshape the courts. ...

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RALEIGH (AP) A judicial remapping plan in which District Court judges in North Carolina’s two most-populated counties will no longer be elected by all county residents has quickly passed the General Assembly and is heading to Gov. Roy Cooper. The ...

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RALEIGH (AP) Election districts for Superior Court judges in North Carolina’s largest county would be retooled in response to a decade-old legal ruling in legislation that cleared one General Assembly chamber. The Senate agreed in a party-line vote May 30 to ...

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RALEIGH (AP) North Carolina legislators have taken another step toward redrawing judicial election districts, although the changes would only apply in the state’s most-populated county. A Senate elections committee voted May 29 to remap boundaries for Superior Court districts in Mecklenburg ...

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CHARLOTTE (AP) Detectives in North Carolina say a police officer is accused of shoplifting from a grocery store. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Chief Kerr Putney told a news conference May 10 that officer Samuel Yaravitz was identified as a suspect in seven shoplifting ...

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CHARLOTTE (AP) A search warrant says a defendant in North Carolina texted a juror while in court and tried to bribe her. Thirty-four-year-old Wesley Westbrook is charged with harassment and offering a bribe in connection with the case. Westbrook was ...

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A group of Mecklenburg County district judges came together on March 27 to voice their opposition to a bill in the General Assembly that they say would inject politics into the state’s judicial system. Senate Bill 306 would divide the ...

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CHARLOTTE (AP) — Homicides in Charlotte rose to a six-year high of 62 people killed in 2015. The Charlotte Observer reports Saturday (http://bit.ly/1VwMr6z ) the deaths represent a nearly 50 percent increase over 2014, when there was an historic low 42 ...

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