So rank is the partisanship of the N.C. Supreme Court that one of its new Republican members has effectively announced it’s ...

Democratic incumbent Allison Riggs leads Republican challenger Jefferson Griffin by 734 votes for a seat on the North ...

Sermons, Jr. presided over the hearing. “Mr. Bacote brought forth unequivocal evidence, unlike any that’s ever been presented in a North Carolina courtroom, that the death penalty is racist,” said ...