The U.S. Justice Department has agreed to pay approximately $100 million to settle claims with about 100 people who say they were sexually assaulted by sports doctor Larry Nassar.
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The case tests the statute used to prosecute hundreds of defendants charged with invading the Capitol to stop the counting of electoral ballots for president in 2020.
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Jury selection is underway for Donald Trump's hush-money trial — the first time in U.S. history a former president is being tried on criminal charges. A decision could come by summer.
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Former Buncombe County library employee faces felony charge alleging intimidation with anti-Semitic items placed at a Madison County home. A new restraining order against the former employee is now in place.
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The former president's lawyers cited the Presidential Records Act in asking that the government's case be dismissed. Judge Aileen Cannon denied the motion — clearing the way for it to proceed.
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A court filing said the bond was provided by Knight Insurance, a California-based company. The move ensures that New York Attorney General Letitia James can't seize Trump's assets related to the case.
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The move comes nearly eight weeks after a 12-year-old boy died at the Transylvania County camp.
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In his first visit to Charlotte since securing the Democratic nomination for governor, North Carolina Attorney General Josh Stein convened a news conference Wednesday to lay out his and other Democrats' efforts to fight the distribution of fentanyl.
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The sentence marks a stunning fall for the 32-year-old former crypto executive who was once seen as the future of finance.
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A Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department lab analyst is under investigation after the department found irregularities in a recently conducted “biological analysis.”
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Police are investigating reported harassment of the University of Utah women's basketball team while staying in Coeur D'Alene, Idaho, for the NCAA tournament in nearby Spokane, Washington.
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He spent seven years in the Ecuadorian Embassy and five years in prison, both in London. U.S. prosecutors want his next move to be to the U.S. But the High Court has delayed that.
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A New York appeals court has reduced the amount former President Trump must post as bond from nearly half a billion dollars to $175 million. It also gave him 10 more days to post it to meet the civil fraud judgment.