Community advocates will gather this week in Winston-Salem to address gang and drug-related violence. The four-day conference comes as the homicide rate has ticked up in the city.
The North Carolina State Bureau of Investigation is looking into two unrelated shooting deaths involving the same sheriff's office within 24 hours.
The 5-year-old victim in a drive-by shooting over the weekend has been identified.
A settlement has been reached with the family of a Winston-Salem man who was shot and killed by a police officer last year.
Students at a North Carolina university were gathered for end-of-year presentations in an anthropology class when a gunman shattered the calm by opening fire with a pistol, killing two and wounding four, a professor said.
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