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The Guilford County Board of Commissioners showed support for a proposal to establish a Legal Support Center at its meeting Thursday. It could help more people navigate the court system.

The emotional testimony from victims who had been duped by the disgraced lawyer came before a judge accepted a deal sentencing Murdaugh to 27 years in prison for stealing about $12 million.

A North Carolina judge sentenced the wife of an Irish businessman and her father to additional prison time Wednesday after their pleas to voluntary manslaughter in her husband’s 2015 beating death.

The unusually public and bitter fight over whether a judge should continue to serve on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit has sparked a lawsuit and turned judges against one another.

In the year since the Winston Weaver fertilizer plant fire, five lawsuits have been filed against the company alleging negligence.

Research shows the average time between sentencing and execution has increased by two-thirds in the past 20 years.

The decision follows a swift trial in which the celebrity chef waived his right to have a jury decide his fate.

Thirty-nine former students have filed a lawsuit against the University of North Carolina School of the Arts, alleging they were sexually abused by members of the school's faculty and staff.

A Northwest North Carolina district court judge has been suspended following a decision by the state Supreme Court.