During Thursday's general assembly session, three state senators introduced SB 94 with a short, direct title: Repeal Death ...

Mace said she was speaking out because her home state’s top prosecutor didn’t take action even after she alerted ...

President Donald Trump’s pick to lead the Department of Education faced a Senate confirmation hearing Thursday.

Senators Julie Mayfield (D-District 49), Graig Meyer (D-District 23) and Natalie Murdock (D-District 20) were the primary sponsors of the bill that looks to repeal the death penalty in North Carolina ...

Sermons made his ruling in the case of Hasson Bacote, who, as NBC News notes, was convicted of murder “along with two others ...

Increasing the amount of unemployment benefits received bipartisan support in a North Carolina House committee on Tuesday, ...

The North Carolina governor spoke with The News & Observer on Tuesday about the first three weeks of the new Trump ...

A renewed and expanded effort from chemical giant Bayer to shield itself from lawsuits that claim its popular weedkiller Roundup causes cancer brought dozens of protesters ...

Bacote spent 15 years on death row before former Governor Roy Cooper commuted his sentence to life without parole in December ...

Racial bias tainted the decision to strike Black people from the jury pool and to impose the death penalty in the 2009 trial ...

The protest at the N.C. capitol in Raleigh was part of a movement to hold 50 decentralized protests in 50 states opposing ...

Protesters marched around the North Carolina State Capitol building on Wednesday, part of a nationwide series of ...