A North Carolina woman stands accused of castrating her ex-boyfriend after squeezing his testicle out of his scrotum, The Daily Mail reports. SEE ALSO: 13-Year-Old…
A North Carolina woman stands accused of castrating her ex-boyfriend after squeezing his testicle out of his scrotum, The Daily Mail reports. SEE ALSO: 13-Year-Old…
North Carolina voters have passed a constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage, CNN projects, putting a ban that already existed in state law into the state’s charter. With more than 1.5 million votes counted from Tuesday’s referendum, supporters of the ban led opponents by a margin of 61% to 39%, according to figures from the State […]
via BBC News A convicted killer has been ordered off death row in the US state of North Carolina after a judge ruled his trial had been tainted by racial bias. Marcus Robinson’s case was the first to be heard under North Carolina’s controversial Racial Justice Act (RJA). The RJA stipulates that death row inmates […]
via WTVD Wake Tech’s main campus was put on lockdown Tuesday morning after a gunman was allegedly spotted near the community college in south Raleigh. Wake County Sheriff’s Public Information Officer Phyllis Stephens said authorities received a call about a person on campus with a gun just before 9 a.m. Students, faculty and staff at […]
President Barack Obama ordered federal agencies to move faster with their payments to small businesses contracted by the government today in his jobs speech at North Carolina State University in Raleigh. The president said he wanted things to move twice as fast in order to put more money in their pockets quicker so they can […]
via BBC News The most ferocious storm to hit the US East Coast for years, Hurricane Irene, is bearing down on New York City, threatening major flooding. Torrential rain is pounding the city, and there are fears a predicted surge of up to 8ft of water along the shoreline could breach flood defences. The hurricane […]
In other words, Bowden was everyone’s favorite player, even though he rarely ever played. Yet Bowden’s place on the varsity sideline was also a weekly rite of passage that meant just as much to the teenager and his family as it did to his teammates. Suddenly, all of that was taken away from the teenager in […]
The state of North Carolina is working on a plan to compensate thousands of residents who were victims of state-mandated sterilization. State eugenics laws, which began after World War II and lasted up until 1977, sterilized men, women and children as young as 10-years-old in an attempt at better breeding and population control. Social workers […]
NORTH CAROLINA — The former pastor of the North Carolina church New Life Christian Center, Keith Devon Pitts, has been convicted of nine counts of sexual abuse with the same girl. WCNC News reports that “his nine counts include sex offense of a child and taking indecent liberties with a child.” Read More At YourBlackWorld.com […]
DURHAM, N.C. – Crystal Mangum, the Durham woman known for falsely accusing three Duke University lacrosse players of rape in 2006, is accused of stabbing her boyfriend early Sunday. Mangum, 32, is charged with assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill inflicting serious injury. She is being held without bond. Investigators believe that […]
CHARLOTTE, North Carolina — There’s only one way in to Windy Ridge — across freight train tracks that zipper up the subdivision on three sides. Living room windows offer views of a cardboard box factory and a Pepsi bottling plant. It’s an unlikely place to come looking for the American Dream. ALSO READ: Charlie Sheen, […]
