Johnston County school board member Ronald Johnson can proceed with his federal lawsuit against the town of Smithfield. But a federal judge’s order Thursday dropped school board members, the district attorney, and all but one individual plaintiff from the case.
A federal judge will hold an April 22 bench trial in Winston-Salem in a lawsuit challenging North Carolina’s restrictions on felon voting. Critics argue that the restrictions are racially discriminatory and violate the constitutional rights of felons who have completed active prison time but remain on parole, probation, or post-release supervision.
A federal Appeals Court has decided not to grant an injunction in a lawsuit challenging North Carolina’s new state Senate election map. The decision announced Thursday means the state is unlikely to face any changes to the remaining 2024 electoral calendar.
A Stokes County attorney and businessman has dropped his lawsuit aiming to guarantee the North Carolina State Board of Elections’ authority to block Donald Trump from the state’s election ballot. Brian Martin filed a notice of voluntary dismissal Wednesday in Wake County Superior Court.
Three of North Carolina's races will go to a run-off in May.
Former top North Carolina political donor Greg Lindberg’s co-defendant in a federal bribery and fraud case wants to separate his retrial from Lindberg’s. The two defendants are now scheduled to return to federal court for a joint retrial on May 6.
A federal judge has ruled that Asheville cannot ban activists for the homeless from accessing city parks while they pursue a federal lawsuit against the city. An injunction Monday allows the plaintiffs to use city parks as their case proceeds.
A standout employee at Novant Health lost his job because of the company's embrace of questionable diversity goals.
At a time when depression rates among adults and children surge to record levels, US Sen. Thom Tillis, R-NC, along with US Sen. Alex Padilla, D-CA, co-chairs of the bipartisan Senate Mental Health Caucus, US Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) Xavier Becerra and Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel, announced a critical step on Friday to improve the 9-8-8 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline, formerly known as the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline.
Rep. Manning introduces the Protect Students on Campus Act in the wake of Oct. 7th.
US Sen. Thom Tillis, R-NC, received a threatening voicemail from a caller who said she would “find him and shoot him and cut him into pieces” if he voted to ban the social media platform TikTok when a bill banning it comes up for a vote in the Senate.
