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A COVID-19 outbreak among five employees in the J.B. Allen Courthouse suspended criminal court proceedings from Wednesday to Friday. Senior Superior Court Judge Tom Lambeth announced Friday he would reopen courts Monday after consulting with the health department and judicial leadership team. The Alamance County Detention Center is still dealing with a worsening outbreak now affecting 81, including 62 inmates and 19 staff. “We will still not be able to bring any inmates to court from the jail, but will handle any inmate matters remotely,” Lambeth wrote. Support local journalism today and...

Times-News The petition against closing Alamance County District Court to spectators and reporters has been dismissed by the North Carolina Court of Appeals after county courts released an order allowing limited access. “It doesn’t shock me, it's sort of a way of side-stepping a delicate issue,” said Mark Prak, a Raleigh based media lawyer who has represented the Times-News in the past. “We're in a pandemic and if there's judicial proceedings, there's got to be a way for the public to see them, and the press is the public's surrogates in most cases." Reporters were turned away from Di...