Over the holiday, North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper granted six commutations and nine pardons of forgiveness. According to a press release from the governor's office, these decisions, announced on December 23, follow a review by the Office of Executive Clemency and aim to provide a second chance to individuals who have demonstrated rehabilitation during their incarceration.
Outgoing President Joe Biden has commuted the death sentences of 37 federal inmates, including Anthony Battle, convicted of stabbing his wife to death in her barracks at Camp Lejeune. Meantime, North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper is under pressure from activists to commute all state death penalty sentences as he prepares to leave office.
The federal government does not bear legal responsibility for a Marine’s murder of his grandmother in North Carolina in 2018, according to a 4th US Circuit Court of Appeals panel. The ruling issued Monday relied on different reasoning to reach the same conclusion as the trial judge in the case.
Inside the Senate's 2025 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) now headed to the US Senate floor, a provision prohibits the Air Force from divesting F-15E Strike Eagle aircraft at Seymour Johnson Air Force Base in Goldsboro through 2029. The US Air Force plans to shelve 26 Strike Eagles from Seymour Johnson next year.
California might be known for giving birth to the high-tech industry during the 1970s, but North Carolina, with our famed Research Triangle Park, is quickly becoming Silicon Valley East. Over the past three years, Apple announced it would invest $1 billion to build a new Research Triangle campus. Epic Games is converting a defunct mall into its new headquarters. Wolfspeed is building a...
As the United States grapples with a staggering national debt surpassing $34 trillion, which grows by further trillions every year, it’s imperative to address the root cause of this fiscal irresponsibility. Over the past century, we’ve witnessed a concerning trajectory, with the federal debt ballooning from $403 billion in 1923 to a staggering $33.17 trillion...
Bill Graham, an attorney and business owner from Salisbury, has joined the growing list of contenders for the GOP nomination for governor in North Carolina in 2024.
Last week, U.S. Sen. Ted Budd, R-NC, voted to advance the FY 2024 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) to the Senate floor as it passed the Senate’s Armed Services Committee.
On Thursday night, a federal judge blocked the Biden administration from implementing a policy that would have allowed the Customs and Border Protection officials to release migrants currently in custody without a court date, if containment facilities were overcrowded. On Thursday, the CBP said they are already near capacity after this week's surge has 27,000 people in custody, about 60% of whom are single adults.
Charlotte City Council member Braxton Winston has thrown his hat in the ring in the 2024 race as a Democratic candidate for North Carolina’s Commissioner of Labor.
By now, veterans are well aware that the drinking water at Camp Lejeune, in Jacksonville, North Carolina, was contaminated with volatile organic compounds for nearly 35 years during the last century. While they should have easy access to Veterans Affairs (V.A.) benefits such as disability compensation for the awful health problems they developed, the reality...
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