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Greensboro doctor charged with soliciting child for sex
NC News
Feb 01GREENSBOROAn internist at Moses Cone Hospital faces charges in Cumberland County that he was trying to solicit a child by computer to have sex, the sheriff's office said today. »
State's first Racial Justice Act hearing begins in Fayetteville
News 14Sandhills
Jan 31The first challenge to a death sentence in North Carolina using the Racial Justice Act got underway Monday in Cumberland County. Lawyers for death row inmate Marcus Robinson claim that racial bias played a role in the jury selection for his trial. That... »
NC Judge To Weigh Death Row Inmate's Racial Claims
WXII Local News
Jan 30Lawyers for a killer on North Carolina's death row are the first to try persuading a judge that race played a key role in his case. Superior Court Judge Greg Weeks in Fayetteville is setting aside up to two weeks to hear the case of Marcus Robinson beg... »
DA Won't Investigate Fayetteville Council's Vote
WXII Local News
Jan 29The Cumberland County district attorney won't investigate a vote by Fayetteville city council members to temporarily halt a type of police search criticized as focusing disproportionately on black residents. The Fayetteville Observer reported that Dist... »
Hayes-Taylor YMCA Looking to Move in Greensboro
WGHP Myfox8.com
Jan 24The Hayes-Taylor YMCA in Greensboro has welcomed people through the same doors for 73 years, but the location of those doors could soon be changing. »
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Latest dispatches from the campaign trail: Wednesday, February 1, 2012
The Locker Room
Feb 01Pat McCrory officially announces for governor (Charlotte Observer) “Jobs” gubernatorial candidate Bill Faison lays off workers form his law firm (WRAL-TV) Lee County school board member Bill Tatum will run for House District 51 seat, now held by Republ... »
Latest dispatches from the campaign trail: Thursday, January 19, 2012
The Locker Room
Jan 19N.C. Republican Party vice chairman says that young people, social media will be critical in this year’s election (Outer Banks Sentinel) The Democratic National Convention in Charlotte will try new twists (Charlotte Observer) Forsyth County school boar... »
Getting to know you in Durham and Fayetteville
Under The Dome
Jan 13That new face in Fayetteville belongs to U.S. Rep. David Price. U.S. Rep. G.K. Butterfield is paying more visits to Durham, the home of his alma mater. And it's not to visit the statue of NCCU founder James E. Shepard. U.S. Rep. David Price of Chapel H... »
WRAL reporter Laura Leslie Gives Opinion, Not Facts in Veto Story
Civitas Review
Jan 06In a news story yesterday WRAL Capitol Bureau Chief Laura Leslie (fresh from public Radio) talks quotes Rep. Rick Glazier (D- Cumberland) as saying the session was unconstitutional. Leslie goes on to say “The override process could also be unconstituti... »
Glazier forms campaign committee; Cotham is running if Atkinson doesn’t
In The Loop
Dec 21State Rep. Tricia Cotham still plans to run for state superintendent of public instruction if the incumbent, June Atkinson, doesn’t run. Until then, the Mecklenburg County Democrat is backing Atkinson. Cotham sent a message out to fellow Democrats aski... »