The local legal system has taken additional steps to keep details of the Eve Carson case out of the media.

A judge in Wake County Superior Court orders Demario Atwater to serve a 20-to-35-month term in a case that has exposed problems in the probation system..

State Attorney General Roy Cooper has called for a system that would let police know immediately if crime suspects already are on probation for other offenses.

Disclosing warrants in the murder of Eve Carson would be perilous, a judge rules.

Letter kept secret; media seek warrants.

Triangle Briefs: Heels4Hire, a Triangle service company, and Kappa Sigma fraternity at UNC-Chapel Hill will sponsor a benefit concert Tuesday at Cat's Cradle in Carrboro.

About an hour after the ATM camera photographed Laurence Lovette, police received a report of gunshots. They found Eve Carson minutes later lying in the street in Chapel Hill.

The state correction secretary seeks an outside evaluation, citing recent lapses.

Director meets with Durham officials and acknowledges problems while also calling for help getting resources.

Laurence Alvin Lovette, 17, will face a murder charge in Abhijit Mahato's death, even though he might not have fired the fatal shot.

The lawyer representing the teen charged with slaying a Duke University graduate student wants tight controls on who gets details of the police investigation.

Probation officer's job thankless, frustrating.

Officials failed to rein in Laurence Alvin Lovette despite a history of juvenile and adult arrests that paints a pattern of escalating criminal behavior, according to court and police records.

Veteran administrators from the state Division of Community Corrections will temporarily take the reins in Wake, and comb through cases there and in Durham.

Robert Guy, director of the state Division of Community Corrections, is scheduled today to release the findings of an internal investigation into the probation cases of the two men charged with killing Eve Carson.

A delayed effort is under way to revoke the probation of a man who was under the purview of Wake's probation office when he was implicated in the killing of a UNC student leader.

In three years as district attorney, Jim Woodall has prosecuted an unprecedented number of high-profile crimes for Orange and Chatham counties, from Chapel Hill teenager Adam Sapikowski's killing his parents to the UNC-Chapel Hill student leader's recent slaying.