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Brandon Smith faces two counts of sexual battery after a two-month investigation into claims that he sexually harassed two teachers.

A 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.

A man crossing New Bern Avenue was hit and killed Monday night, according to Raleigh police

Commentary:  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. Isn’t the murder of an innocent little girl enough by itself to spark outrage?

Smithfield police have determined that a man killed by a freight train Sunday morning was committing suicide.

“This man is going to kill me; she always said that,” a friend of Chahnaz Kebaier said Sunday.

Authorities say a man charged with murder in the death of his son told investigators he blacked out but remembered shooting someone.

A man was found in his car at Massey Avenue and Fayetteville Street with a bullet wound in his neck early Sunday, police said.

A Wake Forest man sought in his wife’s slaying and captured in Virginia was returned to North Carolina Friday night and formally charged with murder.

The 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.

The wait for a decision prompts questions about whether the jury’s eight men and four women are divided or simply being methodical.

Ali Cherfaoui threatened to kill his estranged wife, Chahnaz Kebaier, if she took the couple’s children, a court motion says.

Durham police are investigating a shooting that occurred just after midnight Tuesday.

Two 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.

A 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.

The 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.

One 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.

Raleigh 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.

Gordon 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.