You probably know what it’s like to repeatedly ask a coworker to get you something, like a document or maybe an email address, and that person just ignores you. Or maybe a coworker constantly makes errors, affecting your ability to do your own job. It’s frustrating, right? Well, some federal judges are feeling frustrated with attorneys at the North Carolina Department of Justice over the same sort of thing and the consequences can be more significant than a bit of irritation. Like the delay of a trial by more than a year in one case. Jeffrey Billman is one of the reporters who wrote about it for the Assembly. He joined WFAE’s Marshall Terry.
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LOCAL NEWS
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Preservation work is finished at the Tryon birthplace of the legendary singer, but community planning continues before it opens to the public.
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Chapel Hill Schools voted in 2024 to disregard state law around children changing their names or pronouns and a ban on instruction addressing gender identity before 5th grade.
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David Grier “D.G.” Martin Jr., a former University of North Carolina system vice president, attorney, congressional candidate and longtime host of UNC-TV’s North Carolina Bookwatch, has died. The Charlotte Observer reports Martin passed away Tuesday after a battle with melanoma, with his wife by his side.
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One of the suspects in last month’s shooting during Concord’s tree lighting ceremony has been released from the hospital and transferred to jail.
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The Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools Board of Education officially welcomed four new members at its meeting Tuesday night.
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A student at Ardrey Kell High School is suing the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education after the district initially claimed her painting of the school’s spirit rock amounted to vandalism.
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Charlotte City Council approves a $3.4 million marketing contract to improve the image of its public transit. State regulators will hold a public meeting on Duke Energy's proposal to combine its two Carolina utility companies. The CMS Board of Education extends the contract of Superintendent Crystal Hill.
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