Parts of the current county courthouse date back more than a century, and officials said the community has outgrown the ...

WorldAtlas writers included Boone, Bryson City and more on a list of the "coolest" NC towns for a 2025 summer vacation.

The Allen County commissioners approved two repair projects for the Allen County Courthouse at the May 30 Commissioners ...

The program will be offered at 1 p.m. June 24.  It is part of the Pro Bono Work to Empower and Represent, or POWER, Act, ...

Through the receivership order, the city will transfer power over local jails to a third-party expert appointed by the federal courts.

On May 14, deputies said they initiated a traffic stop on U.S. Highway 64 in Ramseur, but the vehicle failed to stop and ...

A group of Rankin County citizens said they will start a petition to remove Supervisor Steve Gaines from office, following ...

In fact, violence, death, use-of-force, self-harm, and most other metrics of human misery got demonstrably worse at Rikers in the ensuing decade, despite repeated orders from Swain and recommendations ...

despite repeated orders from Swain and recommendations from a court-appointed monitoring team to improve conditions. "There is no doubt that these less extreme measures have proven futile," Swain ...

NEW YORK (AP) — New York City will no longer fully control its jail system, including the long-troubled Rikers Island complex ...

Prior to its appropriation by communist regimes, International Workers Day — May Day — was first commemorated in honor of ...

Jefferson County Circuit Judge Michael Street presided ... In some of the text messages shown in court, Swain and Chandler were telling each other they loved each other. Others were more hostile ...