ASHEVILLE (AP) A North Carolina city has reached a $650,000 settlement with a black pedestrian whose beating by a white police officer was captured on body camera video. A settlement filed Aug. 3 in Buncombe County shows the city of Asheville ...

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MOUNT AIRY (AP) The former mayor of a North Carolina town says she’s running for the Republican nomination for lieutenant governor in 2020. Deborah Cochran is a Winston-Salem high school teacher who was mayor of Mount Airy for more than ...

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RALEIGH (AP) North Carolina judges have decided police performed an unconstitutional search when knocking on an apartment back door from where authorities say an informant had once purchased heroin. The state Court of Appeals reversed May 15 a trial court’s refusal ...

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RALEIGH (AP) The chemical company under pressure for releasing a little-understood industrial chemical into North Carolina’s air and water says it’s taking all reasonable steps to stop it while planning for the long term. Lawyers for The Chemours Co. said ...

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RALEIGH (AP) North Carolina’s attorney general on April 25 challenged regulators for allowing Duke Energy to start charging consumers hundreds of millions of dollars to clean up coal ash dumps and add a potential profit margin. State Attorney General Josh Stein’s ...

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RALEIGH (AP) State authorities are investigating after a homeless North Carolina man says he was brutally beaten by law officers while he was unarmed and crossing a street. Twenty-nine-year-old Kyron Dwain Hinton tells media outlets he suffered a fractured eye ...

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RALEIGH (AP) Industrial-scale hog producers knew for decades that noxious smells from open-air sewage pits tormented neighbors but didn’t change their livestock-raising methods to keep production costs low, the lawyer for farm neighbors told jurors in a federal lawsuit April ...

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RALEIGH (AP) North Carolina state judges favored Republican legislative leaders in the latest batch of rulings about laws that Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper says are unconstitutional. A majority on a three-judge panel dismissed portions of a lawsuit from Cooper by affirming ...

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HONOLULU (AP) — A man who lied to the University of Hawaii about his ability to get Stevie Wonder to play at a fundraiser concert was sentenced April 6 to nearly five years in prison. In an unexpected ruling, U.S. District ...

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SALISBURY (AP) A North Carolina district attorney says he will seek the death penalty against the adoptive father of a teenager who was missing for years before her body was found in South Carolina. The judge presiding over a hearing ...

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