Traffic moves along Camden Road nears Champs Court on Monday, Feb. 10, 2025. A section of Camden Road, from Fayetteville ...

SMITHFIELD, N.C. (WTVD) -- Since she was 16 years old, Mary Cox Matthews has spent every moment by her late husband Frank J. Matthews' side. She was emotional as she stood in front of a historical ...

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

In 2009, Bacote, a Black man, was sentenced to death and challenged his conviction using the RJA, arguing racial bias influenced the jury selection in his case along with all death penalty cases ...

During Thursday’s general assembly session, three state senators introduced SB 94 with a short, direct title: Repeal Death Penalty. Senators Natalie S. Murdock ...

Superior Court Judge Wayland Sermon found race played a major role in the prosecution and sentencing of Hasson Bacote to the death penalty in 2009. Gov. Roy Cooper granted Bacote clemency on Dec. 31, ...

While average dollars per student in federal COVID-19 relief was on par with the national average, recovery in math and ...

SMITHFIELD – Johnston County Public Schools (JCPS) celebrated National School Counseling Week 2025, from February 3-7, 2025.

A South Carolina drug trafficker who was caught in Johnston County in 2023 was sentenced to six-and-half years in prison, federal prosecutors said Tuesday.

The ruling in the first Racial Justice Act evidentiary hearing in more than a decade will have implications for the death ...

The North Carolina Bar Association presented Johnston County District Attorney Susan Doyle with the Peter S. Gilchrist III ...

It was Monday, Feb. 10, and Wilson made the realization while scratching off a $10 Jumbo Bucks ticket at Han-Dee Hugo’s at ...