The N&O reports:
The fatal shooting of a UNC Chapel Hill fraternity president was justified, Randolph County District Attorney Garland Yates said today.
In a news release, Yates said the Archdale police officer who shot and killed Courtland Smith in the early hours of Aug. 23 did so because he believed [...]
Eight Winston-Salem police officers are appealing the city’s plan to release their statements on the controversial Silk Plant Forest case. The statements would be released to a citizens review committee that has criticized the police investigation of the brutal assault of store manager Jill Marker, for which Kalvin Smith [...]
This week's column.
Even as Guilford County was debating, once again, the wisdom of police officers carrying stun guns on school grounds, four teens were being arrested in Wake County on Nov. 12 for a bringing a .22 caliber revolver and a butterfly knife onto the campus of Broughton High School.
The [...]
Former Greensboro Police detective Scott “Scooter” Sanders will return to work as a patrol officer after being cleared of all allegations related to the controversy surrounding former chief David Wray.
The N&R reports that Sanders “was flanked by several, other white police officers who had been implicated in the probe.” [...]
Today, WWNC 570AM’s Matt Mittan told of Asheville City Councilman-Elect Cecil Bothwell’s priorities. They included legalizing all drugs and prostitution and getting local police officers out of immigration enforcement. Councilman-Elect Gordon Smith’s priority is securing benefits for domestic partners of city employees. The link from Mittan’s web site pertaining [...]
WECT offers a full spread of stories about Kimberly Munley, the Carolina Beach native and former Wrightsville Beach police officer who shot Nidal Malik Hasan and thus cut short his deadly shooting rampage at Fort Hood. Munley, who has a history of heroism, was herself wounded in [...]
The civilian police officer who shot Nidal Malik Hasan was a female officer. That has to be a real downer for a devout Muslim like Hasan, to whom women should be covered and not heard:
Army officials say the suspect, “the lone shooter” for this tragic incident, [...]
