A trial judge who declined to conduct a competency hearing before proceeding with a criminal trial after the defendant overdosed on anti-anxiety medication midway through the trial did not commit a reversible error, a divided panel of the North ...

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A recent study on opioid overdose death rates in North Carolina shows that some of the areas with the highest needs in the state are still considering whether or not to take legal action against the industry some say is ...

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Some days it just doesn’t pay to get out of bed. May 31 might have been one of those days for Saul Alford, a 27-year-old Canton man who, if all reports coming from a Waynesville newspaper are even remotely true, ...

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TAYLORSVILLE, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina correctional officials said Sunday they have asked a sheriff’s department to investigate the death of an inmate, who may have suffered a drug overdose. Officials with the state Department of Public Safety said in ...

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