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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
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
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
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
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 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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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