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A psychiatric nurse says Jason Williford didnt plan to rape and murder Kathy Taft. But a prosecution rebuttal witness testifies that Williford had the capacity to plan.
Modified: 05/30/12 04:35:41 AMBrandon Smith faces two counts of sexual battery after a two-month investigation into claims that he sexually harassed two teachers.
Modified: 05/29/12 08:50:57 PMA man was hit by an SUV and killed when he ran into Fanny Brown Road while a dog was chasing him, according to State Highway Patrol.
Modified: 05/29/12 06:59:59 PMA man crossing New Bern Avenue was hit and killed Monday night, according to Raleigh police
Modified: 05/29/12 01:25:14 PMCommentary: Thirteen months ago children were playing on Atka Court in Durham on a warm spring night when a man in a green van shot and killed 13-year-old Shakanah China. Isnt the murder of an innocent little girl enough by itself to spark outrage?
Modified: 05/29/12 06:45:53 AMSmithfield police have determined that a man killed by a freight train Sunday morning was committing suicide.
Modified: 05/29/12 01:23:14 PM“This man is going to kill me; she always said that,” a friend of Chahnaz Kebaier said Sunday.
Modified: 05/28/12 01:03:08 AMAuthorities say a man charged with murder in the death of his son told investigators he blacked out but remembered shooting someone.
Modified: 05/28/12 12:18:52 PMA man was found in his car at Massey Avenue and Fayetteville Street with a bullet wound in his neck early Sunday, police said.
Modified: 05/27/12 10:56:27 AMA Wake Forest man sought in his wifes slaying and captured in Virginia was returned to North Carolina Friday night and formally charged with murder.
Modified: 05/27/12 04:26:31 AMThe N.C. State Bar filed a complaint Friday charging that former Durham District Attorney Tracey Cline spun a string of courthouse lies, behavior that could cost Cline her law license.
Modified: 05/26/12 04:35:22 AMThe wait for a decision prompts questions about whether the jurys eight men and four women are divided or simply being methodical.
Modified: 05/30/12 05:21:15 AMAli Cherfaoui threatened to kill his estranged wife, Chahnaz Kebaier, if she took the couples children, a court motion says.
Modified: 05/30/12 04:34:21 AMDurham police are investigating a shooting that occurred just after midnight Tuesday.
Modified: 05/29/12 06:57:14 AMTwo men charged in the deaths of three people in Pitt County last month have now been charged with killing two people in Edgecombe County in March.
Modified: 05/29/12 08:39:09 AMA robbery victim and workers at a check-cashing office chased down a man who apparently fled with the money and held him until police arrived.
Modified: 05/28/12 01:06:43 AMThe jury in the John Edwards campaign corruption trial is deliberating for a seventh day after a judge gave the panel a stern warning not to talk about the case over the weekend.
Modified: 05/29/12 10:49:24 AMOne man was shot to death by Miami police, and another man is fighting for his life after he was attacked, and his face allegedly half eaten, by a naked man on the MacArthur Causeway off ramp Saturday, police said.
Modified: 05/27/12 12:47:12 PMRaleigh police charge that a woman had 20 prescriptions filled at a series of drug stores after getting the orders by withholding information from doctors or misleading them.
Modified: 05/27/12 10:57:17 AMGordon Goodwin, 22, of Cary was arrested Friday on charges that he was the man who robbed a SunTrust bank branch in a Harris Teeter supermarket in Chapel Hill by passing a teller a note saying he had a gun.
Modified: 05/26/12 08:04:15 AMContact the N&O newsroom
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