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The North Carolina Supreme Court has upheld the funding model Greenville used for its now-discontinued red-light camera enforcement program. The 5-1 decision Thursday reversed an earlier ruling from the state Appeals Court.

The North Carolina Supreme Court will decide in the months ahead whether a cost-sharing agreement that funded Greenville’s red light camera enforcement program complied with the state constitution. Justices heard an hour of oral arguments on the topic Wednesday.

The North Carolina Supreme Court will decide in the months ahead whether a cost-sharing agreement that funded Greenville’s red light camera enforcement program complied with the state constitution. Justices heard

More than one year after the N.C. Court of Appeals struck down Greenville's red-light camera enforcement program as unconstitutional, the N.C. Supreme Court has agreed to hear Greenville's appeal.

The N.C. Supreme Court has agreed to hear Greenville’s appeal of a lower-court ruling against the city’s red-light camera enforcement program. Greenville ended its program last November, eight months after the state Appeals Court ruled the program unconstitutional.

During a public hearing on term length Monday, two residents spoke out against increasing Hope Mills commissioner terms to four years.

Plaintiff has sufficiently alleged a town policy that violates his right to free speech: a ban on livestreaming a traffic stop by police. At the motion-to-dismiss stage, the town has not shown that the alleged policy is sufficiently grounded in and tailored to strong government interests to survive First Amendment scrutiny. However, plaintiff has not ...

The N.C. Supreme Court could decide in the weeks ahead whether to hear Greenville’s legal defense of its red-light camera enforcement program. That’s despite the fact that the city shut down the program in November. Red-light critics filed paperwork with the state's highest court Wednesday.

Nearly two months after Greenville shut down its red-light camera program, the city continues to defend the program in court. Greenville filed paperwork Wednesday asking the N.C. Supreme Court to consider the issue.

A lawsuit alleging that the Pinehurst Village Council violated the state’s open meetings law has been dismissed, but the plaintiffs plan to appeal the decision.