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As summertime brings opportunities for East Carolina University students and community members to spend their free time, live acts and bands performing at summer shows at the State Theatre discuss
Jeanie Ditty, who is accused of killing her 2-year-old daughter in 2015, was released from jail last week on unsecured bond.
The dead man was stabbed in the head during a prison brawl. He had been in prison for the murder in 2008 of a high school athlete in Duplin County. A jury deadlocked on whether the accused stabber is guilty. Police investigators in 2016 failed to collect a bag of bloody clothes after a fatal stabbing at a North Carolina prison, and that triggered a chain of events that likely will lead to the dismissal of charges — and freedom — for the prisoner who was charged with murdering his fellow inmate. That’s the upshot of a ruling issued this month by the N.C. Court of...