A legal battle over marketing for pro basketball star Zion Williamson has heated up with a new claim that the rookie’s family improperly received $400,000 for exclusive promotional rights prior to his only college season.
Read moreNorth Carolina Lt. Gov. Daniel Forest, a Republican, sued Gov. Roy Cooper, a Democrat, claiming he can’t shut down businesses without approval of the Council of State, in Wake County Court.
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Environmentalists on Monday celebrated two energy giants’ weekend cancellation of the controversial Atlantic Coast Pipeline, saying it would have threatened Appalachian waterways and communities for hundreds of miles.
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Voters rebuffed President Trump and nominated two Republicans he opposed to House seats from North Carolina and Kentucky on Tuesday. Calls in higher-profile races in Kentucky and New York faced days of delay as swamped officials count mountains of mail-in ballots.
Read moreTwo people were killed and seven wounded in a shooting in Charlotte, North Carolina’s largest city, police said, and five others were hit by vehicles afterward.
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North Carolina’s Republican lawmakers are expected to pass a bill Tuesday aimed at hosting a full-scale Republican National Convention in Charlotte this summer despite coronavirus concerns.
Read moreThe repeal of North Carolina’s Racial Justice Act — which allowed defendants to challenge their death sentences if they could prove that race was the basis of the decision to seek or impose the penalty — cannot be applied retroactively, the state’s Supreme Court ruled. Individuals who filed claims under the act before it was repealed in 2013 are entitled to its full protections.
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Protests continued in Charlotte and Atlanta for the sixth consecutive day Wednesday afternoon as demonstrators peacefully gathered to march against police violence and racism in the wake of the deaths of George Floyd in Minnesota and Breonna Taylor in Kentucky.
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President Trump said Tuesday night that he is seeking a new state to host this summer’s Republican National Convention after North Carolina refused to guarantee it could be held in Charlotte without restrictions due to the coronavirus pandemic.
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North Carolina’s governor said Thursday that his administration has not received the written safety plan for the upcoming Republican National Convention requested by his health secretary in response to President Trump’s demands for a full-scale event.
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Republican members of the North Carolina General Assembly pressed a Fourth Circuit panel Wednesday to allow them to intervene on behalf of the state in a lawsuit over its controversial voter ID requirements.
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President Trump’s demand for a full-capacity Republican convention in August is putting pressure on North Carolina health officials — and local Republicans — as coronavirus cases surge in the host county and statewide.
Read morePresident Trump threatened Monday to pull the Republican National Convention out of North Carolina if the state’s Democratic governor does not immediately sign off on allowing a full-capacity gathering in August despite the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic.
Read moreThe former head basketball coach sued Western Carolina University and the University of North Carolina in federal court, claiming they fired her because “a group of former student athletes, none of whom had ever attended WCU” complained about her sexual orientation.
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Voting rights advocates sued North Carolina election authorities on Wednesday over new voting machines that they claim lack security and pose a public health risk amid the Covid-19 pandemic.
Read moreExecutive orders requiring people to stay at home and banning them from crossing state lines amid the Covid-19 outbreak are drawing civil rights lawsuits across the country.
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In a case that stars the fearsome pirate Blackbeard’s prized ship Queen Anne’s Revenge, the Supreme Court on Monday ruled states cannot be sued in federal court for copyright infringement.
Read moreAdvance North Carolina sued North Carolina, claiming its Senate Bill 683, of October 2019, unconstitutionally prohibits people and organizations from helping citizens apply for and submit absentee ballots, in Wake County Court.
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Former Vice President Joe Biden has won Virginia’s Democratic primary on Tuesday, according to early projections.
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