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Wake County school board members are clashing with staff over the extent of sweeping grading changes that would affect how all of the district’s 150,000 students are evaluated on their report cards. School administrators back an overhaul that’s supposed to make teachers issue more consistent grades, with the marks reflecting a student’s knowledge as opposed […]
Police were searching Sunday for a 2000 to 2004 black Chevrolet Monte Carlo that lost its right-side rear-view mirror when it hit a bicyclist on Hillsborough Street near Ashe Avenue at about 1 a.m. Saturday evening, officers charged Saturday evening that a woman was driving while impaired when an SUV she was operating came up […]
The John Edwards jury told a federal judge today it had reached a verdict only on one of six campanign-finance charges, sending the courtroom into confusion and opening the door to a mistrial. Jurors told Judge Catherine Eagles they had reached a unanimous verdict only on Count 3 of the indictment. That charge pertains specifically […]
On its ninth day of deliberations Thursday, the jury at the campaign finance trial of Sen. John Edwards reached a milestone that raised hopes verdicts may be near: the jurors asked to keep deliberating as they eat lunch. “The jury has indicated they want to work through lunch today,” U.S. District Court Judge Catherine Eagles […]
The Franklin County School Board voted unanimously Tuesday to eliminate prayer in schools and some residents are upset. The American Civil Liberties Union sent a letter to the school district last week after a Franklinton High School parent complained to the ACLU that there was a prayer at a recent awards ceremony for graduating […]
The defense has rested in the trial of Jason Williford, who charged with the 2010 rape and murder of N.C. State Board of Education member Kathy Taft. Defense lawyers have not tried to deny Williford killed Taft. Instead, they’re trying to keep him off death row by trying to prove the crime was not […]
People living near the church in Oakwood Park have made hundreds of calls to police over the course of several years to complain about noise at The Glorious Church on Glascock Street, and now the church has been cited for violating a city noise ordinance. “We have neighbors who live right next door to the […]
A federal ruling on whether Progress Energy and Duke Energy can combine into the nation’s largest electric utility could come as early as Friday, bringing closure to a deal announced 17 months ago. In an internal message to 29,000 employees on Thursday, the two power companies said the highly anticipated decision from the Federal Energy […]
A North Carolina man convicted of running the $40 million Black Diamond Ponzi scheme was sentenced Wednesday to 50 years in prison for what prosecutors called “the worst financial crime in this district in memory.” Keith Simmons, 47, didn’t react while U.S. Chief District Judge Robert Conrad read the sentence in a quiet courtroom. The […]
Legislators will hold a public hearing in Raleigh about a bill that would pay $50,000 to people who were sterilized against their will. Some victims are expected to attend the hearing, which will be held Tuesday at the Legislative Office Building. So far, the N.C. Justice for Sterilization Victims Foundation has identified 132 victims, […]
