Crime/Safety

Police investigate their slow response to Fayetteville family killings

Police delayed for more than an hour after a chilling emergency call that captured a gunshot before sending officers to the home where a real estate developer killed his family and then himself.
Modified: 11/06/09 11:30:58 PM

Court reinstates lawsuit over death during sleepover

Adults have a legal duty to exercise reasonable care when they agree to supervise someone else's child, a divided Virginia Supreme Court said Thursday.
Modified: 11/05/09 09:15:17 PM

Friends reflect on family's deaths

Hours before William Maxwell slaughtered his family and killed himself, relatives and friends who were worried about the Fayetteville real estate developer gathered at his home to see whether they could lift the normally happy dad out of his funk.
Modified: 11/05/09 08:55:33 PM

Quaint town deals with tragedy

A shooting that left four men dead Sunday has shaken residents of Mount Airy, the town that inspired the 1960s TV series "The Andy Griffith Show."
Modified: 11/04/09 11:25:41 PM

DAs lobby for psych beds

North Carolina's prosecutors say they are increasingly concerned about the erosion of state services for people with mental illness who are accused of crimes.
Modified: 11/05/09 06:25:11 AM

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Police seek help finding Durham man

Police are trying to find Morris John Bennett, who is wanted on suspicion of violating the terms of his parole after being convicted on drug charges.
Modified: 11/04/09 08:30:29 PM

Muslims say attacks are more than vandalism

As Iqbal Ahmad surveys the damage to the Fayetteville Street mosque - smashed windows and doors, stolen computer monitors, Sunday school supplies knocked over - he concludes this was no ordinary burglary.
Modified: 11/05/09 05:43:52 AM

Death prompts probe of day care

Police and state officials are investigating a home day-care provider after an infant in her care stopped breathing last week.
Modified: 11/04/09 08:30:28 PM

New annuity fraud charges filed

Fourteen more embezzlement-related charges have been filed against Charles Mark Hall, former owner of Market Street Advisors, the N.C. Department of Insurance announced Wednesday.
Modified: 11/04/09 11:25:31 PM

Young man is sought in abduction

Police are searching for what they think is a young man who abducted a 54-year-old woman from a parking lot in her apartment complex in Garner on Monday morning.
Modified: 11/04/09 05:48:18 AM

Bones reveal victim's name

It was a copy of a 2002 CAT scan that finally put a name, a face to the bones and mummified remains found eight months ago among the decaying leaves in a thicket of woods north of Rocky Mount, where six women have been murdered.
Modified: 11/04/09 08:13:59 AM

Perdue defends hiring murderer

Gov. Bev Perdue defended her decision as lieutenant governor to hire a convicted murderer to work in her office as part of a work release program.
Modified: 11/04/09 05:50:25 AM

Wright's conviction is upheld

The N.C. Court of Appeals has upheld the conviction of former state Rep. Thomas E. Wright on three felony counts of obtaining property by false pretenses for taking out a fraudulent bank loan and depositing contributions intended for charity into his personal bank account.
Modified: 11/04/09 06:49:16 AM

Police say man killed family, self

A real estate developer shot and killed his wife and two teen children and then committed suicide in their home, police said Tuesday.
Modified: 11/04/09 05:47:07 AM

Forum set on 'Aftermath of Murder'

Campbell Law School will explore the repercussions of murder and people's responses to it with a public forum Thursday.
Modified: 11/04/09 05:48:15 AM

Police: NC father killed wife, 2 children, self

A real estate developer shot and killed his wife and two teen children and then committed suicide, police say.
Modified: 11/03/09 08:05:35 PM

Man charged in Mount Airy deaths

A soured love affair may have led an ex-convict to gun down four men in the town that inspired the idyllic community of Mayberry on the 1960s TV series "The Andy Griffith Show," police said Monday.
Modified: 11/03/09 07:15:39 PM

Man killed in Bragg blast was civilian

Officials say a civilian killed in an explosion at Fort Bragg was scavenging for scrap metal when he stepped on a round and it exploded.
Modified: 11/02/09 09:59:13 PM

Wounded officer cheated death

A Durham police rookie's injuries were so severe that his father packed his black suit for the trip from New York City. Damon Youmans could have died July 2.
Modified: 11/03/09 05:36:36 AM

Former officer to spend week in jail

A former Raleigh police officer will spend a week in jail after entering a plea Monday in Wake County court that acknowledged prosecutors had enough evidence to convict him of breaking into his former wife's house and assaulting a man.
Modified: 11/02/09 11:02:59 PM

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