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Aug 15, 2025

New Hanover County lawyer suspended

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Feb 20, 2025

New Hanover County lawyer reinstated

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The Administrative Office of the Courts will finish the transition to the eCourts electronic filing system later this year. (North Carolina Administrative Office of the Courts)
Jan 24, 2025

More counties to make transition to eCourts

The eCourts electronic document filing system continues its expansion next month with the addition of the seventh group of counties. The system will go live Feb. 3 in 13 eastern […]

Nov 14, 2024

New Hanover County lawyer reinstated

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The North Carolina Administrative Office of the Courts has begun paying jurors in 33 counties via prepaid debit cards rather than paper checks. (Depositphotos.com)
Nov 12, 2024

State shifts pay for some jurors to prepaid debit cards

North Carolinians serving on juries in a third of the state’s counties are receiving their pay on prepaid debit cards, replacing paper checks, the state’s Administrative Office of the Courts […]

Nov 8, 2024

State sets more training on eCourts system

Virtual and in-person eCourts training sessions are now available as the North Carolina Administrative Office of the Courts prepares to move another group of counties to the electronic filing system […]

Oct 9, 2024

New Hanover County lawyer suspended

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Gov. Roy Cooper has turned to a chief District Court judge to fill a seat on the Superior Court bench in Western North Carolina. (Associated Press file)
Sep 6, 2024

Cooper taps new DA in Southeastern North Carolina

Gov. Roy Cooper has named an assistant district attorney as the new district attorney for Prosecutorial District 6, a release from his office says. Rebecca Zimmer Donaldson replaces her retiring […]

Three N.C. counties are enrolling children through age 3 and their families in the Safe Babies Court program, and two others will join the program. (Depositphotos.com)
Aug 6, 2024

Safe Babies Court enrolls families in three test counties

RALEIGH — A court pilot program to cut the time children spend in foster care has begun accepting families in three counties in the state. The Safe Babies Court now […]

Wanda Copley, second from right, was presented the North Carolina State Bar’s John B. McMillan Distinguished Service Award, at a recognition event April 1 at the New Hanover County Historic Courthouse in Wilmington. Standing with the now-retired longtime New Hanover County county attorney are Todd Brown, left, N.C. State Bar president; Marcia Armstrong, second from left, the bar’s immediate past president; and W. Allen Cobb Jr., a retired Superior Court judge. (Submitted photo)
Apr 17, 2024

Bar award honors veteran county attorney

Wanda Copley, New Hanover County's now-retired longtime attorney, was presented the North Carolina State Bar’s John B. McMillan Distinguished Service Award on April 1 to recognize her almost four decades of service.

A case prosecuted by the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of North Carolina resulted last week in a former law enforcement officer’s two guilty pleas to conspiracy counts. 
Mar 25, 2024

Yearslong drug investigation leads to yearslong prison term

NEW BERN — A Benson businessman is going to federal prison for almost 15 years after a multiagency, multiyear investigation into his drug ring that trafficked pounds of methamphetamine and […]

Mar 15, 2024

New Hanover County lawyer suspended

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