Greg Cote’s Poll Dance is a weekly survey on a topic usually in sports. In today’s 33rd installment: Considering who is gone ...

On Friday, a judge said race did play a role in the trial and death sentence of Hasson Bacote. Bacote was previously sentenced to death for the 2007 death of Anthony Surles during a robbery attempt.

In a 120-page order, Superior Court Judge Wayland Sermons also ruled that race was “a significant factor” in other death penalty cases brought by Greg Butler, the assistant district attorney ...

The court also considered evidence from lead prosecutor Greg Butler who the judge says had a history of unfairly prosecuting Black defendants. "In another capital case, Mr. Butler called a Black ...

when looking at other cases tried by Assistant District Attorney Gregory Butler as well as other death penalty cases in the same prosecutorial district, which at the time included Harnett and Lee ...

Racial bias tainted the decision to strike Black people from the jury pool and to impose the death penalty in the 2009 trial of a Black man in North Carolina, a judge ruled on Friday, part of what he ...

A winter storm warning is in effect from 7 p.m. on Saturday until 1 p.m. on Sunday with an expected 4-8″ in total snow ...

Moments before Jimmy Butler was handed a Golden State Warriors jersey for the first time, he made clear what his motivation ...

A former police officer who performed security duties at a Mercer County high school has been indicted by the February term of the Mercer County Grand Jury on charges including sexual abuse and gross ...

The ruling in the first Racial Justice Act evidentiary hearing in more than a decade will have implications for the death ...