The Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools Board swore in its new member Thursday, but some expressed disappointment with the way the board made its decision.
The Orange-Chatham district attorney and a local civil rights lawyer are both speaking out against a proposed amendment to automatically allow criminal defendants the right to waive jury trial.
The attorney for the so-called “Orange County Five” says he’s encouraged by the recent dismissal in Wake County District Court of five other Moral Monday protester cases, based on a recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling that protest-free “buffer zones” on public property around abortion clinics are unconstitutional.