A federal district court announced Thursday that a preliminary injunction will be issued next week to block North Carolina from requiring residents to provide a photo identification to vote next year.
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The fight over the critically endangered red wolf has returned to court as North Carolina’s governor sought immediate help for the dozen or so remaining in the wild and federal biologists planned to transfer wolves into the recovery area for the first time in years.
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‘Twas the night of Christmas at a North Carolina house, no creature should have been stirring, not even a mouse.
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A North Carolina college student hailed by police as a hero for preventing more injuries and deaths after a gunman opened fire in a classroom has been immortalized as a Jedi by the production company for the “Star Wars” franchise.
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Two people were killed and two wounded Friday morning in a shooting at a government facility in North Carolina, according to city officials, who said they had stabilized the situation.
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North Carolina Republican Mark Meadows, a top ally of President Donald Trump, announced Thursday he is retiring from the U.S. House of Representatives but hinted at a future role in the White House.
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The Senate on Thursday confirmed two nominees to federal district courts in North and South Carolina, one of which will end the longest judicial vacancy in the country.
Read moreCharles Ray Finch, 81, who is black, sued Wilson County, N.C., its former sheriff and other officers in federal court; he was convicted of murder in 1976 and sentenced to death, then spent 43 years in prison until the Duke Law School Wrongful Convictions Clinic secured his exoneration and release this year.
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A three-judge panel in North Carolina ruled Monday that the state’s new congressional map can be used in the 2020 election, rejecting a challenge to the latest version drawn by Republican state lawmakers last month.
Read moreThe Community Success Initiative and the NAACP sued North Carolina in Wake County Court, claiming it is unconstitutionally preventing more than 70,000 citizens from voting until they are “unconditionally discharged” from probation, parole or a suspended sentence.
Read moreThe 10th graders in Aedrin Albright’s civics class at a rural North Carolina high school had done their homework, and now it was time to decide: Should President Trump be impeached?
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Kay Hagan, a former bank executive who rose from a budget writer in the North Carolina Legislature to a seat in the U.S. Senate, died Monday following a prolonged illness. She was 66.
Read moreFour prisoners sued the North Carolina Department of Public Safety in Wake County Court, claiming its use of solitary confinement is unconstitutional.
Read moreThe Pennsylvania Manufacturers’ Association Insurance Co. sued North Carolina Mutual Wholesale Drug Co. in federal court, claiming it has no duty to indemnify or defend the wholesaler, which is facing 69 opioid lawsuits in Ohio, 56 of which were brought by counties in North Carolina.
Read moreThe Southern Environmental Law Center sued the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service in federal court for information on “the conservation and management of North Carolina’s critically endangered red wolf,” which may have been reduced to only 14 animals.
Read moreFake gunshots rang out through a North Carolina courthouse Friday as part of an active shooter training simulation that prevented non-employee visitors from entering the building for several hours.
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House Republicans in North Carolina’s state legislature voted Wednesday to override Democratic Governor Roy Cooper’s veto of a contentiously partisan two-year budget proposal — a vote that occurred while nearly half of the chamber’s members were missing from the floor.
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Conservative Republican Dan Bishop won a special election for an open House seat in North Carolina, averting a demoralizing Democratic capture of a district the GOP has held for nearly six decades. But his narrow victory didn’t erase questions about whether President Trump and his party’s congressional candidates face troubling headwinds approaching 2020.
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President Trump’s Monday rally in Fayetteville, N.C., on the eve of a controversial redo election in the state’s 9th Congressional District showed how local politics may have a national impact on the 2020 elections.
Read moreIn a closely watched contest that could foreshadow the 2020 race, voters in North Carolina’s 9th Congressional District will cast their ballots Tuesday in a special do-over election called in light of ballot-fraud accusations.
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