North Carolina authorities: Stun gun used on woman at McDonald's drive-thru who cut in line

5 February 2012, 2:13 pm

HOPE MILLS, N.C. - North Carolina authorities say they used a stun gun on a woman motorist who blocked a McDonald's drive-thru for 20 minutes after employees refused to serve her because she cut in line.... Read More »

Police use stun gun on North Carolina woman at drive thru

5 February 2012, 1:50 pm

HOPE MILLS, N.C. — North Carolina authorities say they used a stun gun on a woman motorist who blocked a McDonald's drive-thru for 20 minutes after employees refused to serve her because she cut in line.... Read More »

Fayetteville Prosecutors Present Case In Racial Justice Act Hearing

5 February 2012, 11:51 am

Prosecutors will begin presenting their case in the first evidentiary hearing involving North Carolina's Racial Justice Act.... Read More »

UNC campuses slated for new fee, tuition increases

5 February 2012, 10:06 am

RALEIGH University of North Carolina students who pay in-state rates are facing a more than $400 tuition increase, despite President Barack Obama's warning that schools could lose funding if they don't find ways to keep costs down.... Read More »

Emotion absent from first week of Racial Justice Act hearing in Fayetteville

4 February 2012, 10:30 pm

At North Carolina's premiere Racial Justice Act hearing in Fayetteville, the mathematical language is clinical, the courtroom emotionally sterile under fluorescent lights.... Read More »

DeCock: State fans to Wake: 'Not Our Rival!'

4 February 2012, 6:40 pm

As N.C. State wrapped up yet another win over Wake Forest on Saturday, a number of fans started chanting "Not our rival!" - the same chant North Carolina fans had used against the Wolfpack 10 days ago.... Read More »

Hagan Expects Defense Spending to Increase in NC — North Carolina Public Radio WUNC

2 February 2012, 7:02 am

U.S. Senator Kay Hagan says she'll fight to protect North Carolina's military institutions from recently-announced defense cuts. But Hagan told WUNC the Pentagon's plans include certain funding increases as well.... Read More »

Group ponders lawsuit over Fayetteville consent search ban

30 January 2012, 7:18 pm

The North Carolina Police Benevolent Association said Monday that it's considering litigation against the city of Fayetteville over a temporary freeze on police consent searches while a consultant group investigates claims of racial profiling.... Read More »

State's first Racial Justice Act hearing begins in Fayetteville

30 January 2012, 2:54 pm

The first challenge to a death sentence in North Carolina using the Racial Justice Act got underway Monday in Cumberland County. Lawyers for death row inmate Marcus Robinson claim that racial bias played a role in the jury selection for his trial. That jury convicted Robinson of killing 17-year-old ... Read More »

Museum dedicated to Civil War, civil rights proposed for Fayetteville

23 January 2012, 9:00 pm

Supporters of Fayetteville's history museum say they want to develop North Carolina's first museum dedicated to the Civil War and the tumultuous decades that followed.... Read More »