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Click here for a free download of the latest Adobe Flash Player. by STUART WATSON / NewsChannel 36 E-mail Stuart: SWatson@WCNC.com Posted on November 20, 2009 at 10:17 PM RALEIGH, N.C. -- When the North Carolina courts ordered a former death row inmate to be released, many Carolinians wanted to know one thing: "How can this happen?" How can an ...

State Attorney General Richard Blumenthal filed a formal petition on Monday asking the U.S. Supreme Court to rule on whether an appeals court wrongly upheld new Federal Aviation Administration flight plans.

A federal judge Friday ordered the Obama administration to free a long-held Guantanamo captive who fled his native Algeria years ago and kicked around Europe as a construction worker for a decade before his capture in Pakistan.

But is dishonesty really a crime? By Matthew McClearn One wonders how Conrad Black and Jeffrey Skilling would fare as cellmates.

Larry "Bill" Elliott died in Virginia's electric chair Tuesday night, nearly nine years after the murders that landed him on death row.

This is an undated family photo of former Coffee County Sheriff C.F. "Neil" Grantham holding his grandson Sean.

More than 150 years after the U.S. Supreme Court issued the notorious Dred Scott decision affirming slavery, a Maryland city unveiled a plaque Tuesday to educate visitors about the opinion and the local man who wrote it - and to quell a local controversy.

Amtrak riders passing through New London, Conn., can catch an odd sight in an otherwise picturesque New England setting: a fancy corporate center standing next to a street grid emptied of nearly all its buildings.

Gates: Pentagon to review internal policies A A Nov. 19: Defense Secretary Robert Gates announces a DOD review of procedures and policies in an effort to prevent incidents such as the shootings at Fort Hood from happening again.

The runners-up to Merriam-Webster's 2009 Word of the Year , with definitions from the publisher's collegiate dictionary and, when applicable, the news event or story that generated the interest in the word: - Emaciated : To cause to lose flesh so as to become very thin.

The commission Gov. Joe Manchin tasked with reforming West Virginia's judicial system came to a series of politically savvy suggestions in their report released this week.

This photo made Nov. 4, 2009, shows death row inmate Danielle Simpson. Simpson volunteered for execution and in recent weeks changed his mind and hoped the U.S. Supreme Court would spare him from a trip to the Texas death chamber Wednesday, Nov.

In 2006, long before there was an Obama administration determined to impose a command-and-control federal health care system, a young orthopedic surgeon walked into the Goldwater Institute here with an idea.

Michigan's ban against racial preferences in public university admissions and government hiring will be put to the test in a federal appeals court three years after voters had their say.

A group of black Connecticut firefighters hopes to block promotions for white firefighters who won a discrimination case before the U.S. Supreme Court.

The District of Columbia has decided not to appeal a court ruling that found its police checkpoints in a high-crime neighborhood were unconstitutional.

Tuesday, November 17, 2009 at 5:08 p.m. Read more: National , Politics , Defense of Marriage Act , U.S. Supreme Court , Congress , Marriage , Gay , Same Sex Marriage , DOMA BOSTON a ' Gay married couples suing the government over a federal law that doesn't recognize same-sex unions say there is "no legitimate or plausible" reason for having a ...

The Obama administration is opposing former Gov. Don Siegelman's appeal of his felony corruption conviction before the U.S. Supreme Court, arguing that federal prosecutors presented enough evidence to prove bribery.

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia has said in a speech at Ohio State University the Constitution is best treated as an original document within the context of its historical creation, not as a text subject to modern reinterpretation.

More than 150 years after the U.S. Supreme Court issued the notorious Dred Scott decision affirming slavery, a Maryland city has erected a plaque to educate visitors about the decision and the local man who wrote it.