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Carrboro woman's body left in hearse for nine days

Aug 25, 2023 | wral.com | Beau Minnick |Kelly Gardner

The North Carolina Board of Funeral Service and Alamance County authorities are investigating why a woman’s body was left in a hearse for nine days. Police found the body of Linda Walton, 37, in a hearse parked underneath a tree on Thursday after they were called to investigate a foul odor in the town of Graham. Authorities determined that Walton died of natural causes and estimated that she had been dead five to seven days when she was found in her Carrboro apartment on Aug. 11.
Convict blames SBI, seeks new trial

Aug 25, 2023 | wral.com | Mike Charbonneau |Kelly Gardner

A man convicted of murder requested a new trial on Wednesday, citing widespread problems with the state’s crime lab and an investigator accused of misrepresenting blood evidence in his case. Attorney Diane Savage said in a court motion that a new trial is necessary for George Goode, adding to the legal morass caused by questionable practices at the State Bureau of Investigation. “I think justice kind of demands that he gets a new trial,” Savage said in an interview with The Associated Press.
Man on hunger strike for illegal immigrants

Aug 25, 2023 | wral.com | Amanda Lamb |Kelly Gardner

A Winston-Salem man on a hunger strike at the Wake County jail and facing deportation says that he wants to bring attention to U.S. immigration laws and how they are affecting immigrants who have been raised in America yet cannot obtain citizenship as adults. "I had no control over whether or not I wanted to come to this country, but I'm here, and I'm a contributing member of society," 24-year-old Uriel Alberto, an illegal immigrant from Mexico, said Monday.
Judges to hear Hickory man's innocence claims

Aug 25, 2023 | wral.com | Kelly Gardner

A three-judge panel will hear the innocence claims of a Hickory man who is out on parole after serving almost 24 years of a life sentence for a rape conviction. The hearing for Willie Grimes, 66, begins Monday at the Catawba County courthouse in Newton.
Suspect charged, another sought in fatal shooting at Fayetteville party

Aug 25, 2023 | wral.com | Kelly Gardner

Authorities have arrested a suspect and are looking for another in the death of a Spring Lake man who was shot during a party in Fayetteville Saturday night. Harvey Sangster, 26, of 5506 Quarter Pole Lane, Hope Mills, faces a charge of first-degree murder in the death of Bryce Marcel Lee. Lee was taken to a local hospital, where he died Sunday evening.
Folt installed as UNC-Chapel Hill's first female chancellor

Aug 25, 2023 | wral.com | Leyla Santiago |Bill Herrero |Kelly Gardner

Celebrating its 220th birthday, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill on Saturday installed its 11th chancellor and first female leader. "I am overwhelmed by Carolina warmth and a Tar Heel welcome," Carol Folt, the former president at Dartmouth College in New Hampshire, told an estimated crowd of about 2,500 students, faculty and staff who gathered Saturday in Polk Place on the Chapel Hill campus.
NCCU opens center for student veterans

Aug 25, 2023 | wral.com | Kelly Gardner

A center opened Monday at North Carolina Central University as a way to help the more than 400 student veterans at the university make the transition from the military to college lifeNCCU veterans coordinator and U.S. Army veteran Tomeka Davis says a campus is unfamiliar territory for many veterans, who are accustomed to a structured environment. She says that's often the opposite of what happens in a college classroom.
Perdue wants higher sales tax for education

Aug 25, 2023 | wral.com | Matt Burns |Kelly Gardner |Laura Leslie |Bill Herrero

Gov. Beverly Perdue said Tuesday that her budget proposal for next year will include a temporary sales tax increase to restore education cuts made by the Republican-led General Assembly when they let a similar tax expire last July. The announcement by Perdue, made during a visit to a Greensboro elementary school, comes four months before the legislature returns to town for its budget-adjusting session.
Severe drought conditions impact central NC

Aug 25, 2023 | wral.com | Kelly Gardner |Renee Chou |Edward Wilson

Nearly half of North Carolina is under a drought, and more than a quarter is under severe drought. An assessment of drought conditions released Thursday by the North Carolina Drought Management Advisory Council estimates that 45 percent of the state is experiencing some sort of drought. Of those, 27 counties in the central part of the state are in severe drought, the second worst level in the four-category system used to measure the drought.
Fayetteville asks for federal review of police procedures

Aug 25, 2023 | wral.com | Mike Charbonneau |Kelly Gardner

City administrators in Fayetteville have asked the U.S. Justice Department to evaluate traffic stop practices of police after data showed officers were nearly four times more likely to search a car with a black driver. City Manager Dale Iman sent a letter this week asking for the Justice Department's review of the police department.