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Currituck County and its Tourism Development Authority want North Carolina’s highest court to consider a dispute involving local occupancy taxes. The state Court of Appeals ruled against the county in March.

A hospital involved in a certificate-of-need legal dispute is asking the full North Carolina Court of Appeals to rehear a case involving a proposed emergency department in Buncombe County. But a competitor and the state Department of Health and Human Services want the court to publish its original decision.

Mission Health is urging North Carolina’s second-highest court to publish a recent decision in a certificate-of-need dispute. Publication would give the decision authority as a legal precedent.

The state Court of Appeals has ruled in favor of the city of Raleigh in its pay dispute with 37 police officers.

The outcome of a legal dispute over a new hospital emergency department in Buncombe County could depend on a state law requiring a public hearing. The state Appeals Court will decide in the months ahead whether the absence of a public hearing jeopardizes the certificate of need for a new Mission Health emergency department in Candler.

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — A North Carolina judge wasn’t careless while sentencing a man to life in prison without parole for the murders of two law enforcement officers during a

The North Carolina Court of Appeals ruled that Kevin Salvador Golphin will remain in prison for life without parole for the killing of two law enforcement officers when Golphin was 17.

A North Carolina judge wasn't careless while sentencing a man to life in prison without parole for the murders of two law enforcement officers during a ...

A unanimous three-judge panel of the state Court of Appeals has upheld a life sentence without parole for Kevin Salvador Golphin, one of two brothers who killed two law enforcement officers in Cumberland County in 1997.

Five county school boards and trustees at one state community college are dropping their court appeals for refunds of money paid to the state retirement system in pension-spiking cases. If they had won their legal battle, refunds would have totaled more than $434,000, not counting at least five years of interest.