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NC prisoners might lose legal advocates

The state Senate spending plan would eliminate funding for North Carolina Prisoner Legal Services, a nonprofit law firm that opened nearly 13,000 cases last year.

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CRIME

Armed robber sought in Durham for SunTrust heist

A man wearing a stocking over his head and armed with a handgun got away with an undisclosed amount of cash Thursday afternoon in a robbery at a SunTrust bank branch on Hillsborough Road in Durham.
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CRIME

Murder defendant’s brother sticks up for him

Derek Abaroa says his brother Raven, on trial for murder, was a good husband and a good father.

EDUCATION

ECSU gets new interim leader as state probes police wrongdoing

Elizabeth City State University is in turmoil as state investigators look into wrongdoing on the campus and the city police have taken over the review of 125 criminal cases that were improperly investigated by campus police.
DURHAM COUNTY

Defense rests in Abaroa’s murder trial

Prosecutors will begin their rebuttal process next week in the murder trial of Raven Abaroa, accused of killing his wife, Janet.
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Orange County Arrests - 05.23.2013

See mugshots from the Orange County Sheriff's Department, taken on Thursday, 05/23/2013.
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Wake County Arrests - 05.23.2013

See mugshots from the Wake County Sheriff's Department, taken on Thursday, 05/23/2013.
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Johnston County Arrests - 05.23.2013

See mugshots from the Johnston County Sheriff's Department, taken on Thursday, 05/23/2013.
CRIME

Two found dead in apparent murder-suicide

Durham police are investigating the circumstances of a domestic murder-suicide that happened Wednesday afternoon in the parking lot of an office complex in the 3300 block of Durham-Chapel Hill Boulevard.
CRIME

Police charge 3 with murder in North Raleigh slaying

Raleigh police Tuesday afternoon charged a 20-year-old Raleigh man, a 23-year-old Wake Forest man and an 18-year-old Wake Forest woman with murder in the bloody slaying of Melissa Dawn Huggins-Jones on May 14.
CRIME

Durham carjack victim flees to police officer; two arrested

A man who had been forced into his car outside a convenience store by two men who beat him on the head with guns got away when he saw a police cruiser at a shopping center where he had been made to drive.