Local law enforcement agencies, state lawmakers, the Department of Justice, and State Crime Lab have been focused on the backlog that dates back to when Gov. Roy Cooper was attorney general for 16 years. Now, 11,841 kits have been tested leading to DNA matches and more than 100 arrests.
The 17th edition of the annual rankings placed the Tar Heel State as having the fourth best economic outlook among the 50 states, after turning in the eleventh ranked economic performance.
This week on the Debrief, Vice President Kamala Harris is back in North Carolina, for the second time in two weeks, and there will be s a new name on your November presidential ballot. What is a “benefits cliff?” We’ll explain how a raise can be a net loss for those on entitlement programs, plus...
A major player in the litigation over North Carolina's district maps and fierce defender of North Carolina's constitutional amendment for Voter ID, Farr was twice nominated to be a federal judge by former president Donald Trump, and twice by former president George W. Bush.
The US Consumer Financial Protection Bureau enacted a new law in early March that bans credit card companies from collecting excessive late fees from customers, but the regulations have been slammed by numerous business entities for its potential impacts on small businesses.
Rep. Greg Murphy, R-NC, a physician, has introduced a bill in Congress that would ban -race-based mandates in medical schools.
At a Feb. 14 board meeting, directors of NC Innovation (NCI), the private nonprofit written into the biennial state budget last fall to the tune of $500 million in taxpayer funds, labored over the interpretation of financial statements and statutory definitions.
In a 6-3 decision Tuesday, the US Supreme Court ended a stay on a Texas state law that allows local law enforcement to arrest those who have crossed the US-Mexico border illegally.
The lawsuit was Filed in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia and accuses the NCAA of instituting "a radical anti-woman agenda on college sports, reinterpreting Title IX to define women as a testosterone level."
While North Carolina voters identify immigration as their top election issue, Sheriffs across the state differ on how they interpret the law around detainers from the federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Here's why.
As the days grow closer to the opening of a Cherokee Indian-planned marijuana superstore in western North Carolina, the state’s Republican U.S. senators have questions about how communities in the state will be kept safe.
