On Friday, June 8, Netflix is releasing a revised, expanded version of “The Staircase” — the 2004 documentary series about the murder of Durham businesswoman Kathleen Peterson and the murder trial of her husband, … Watch...
8/22/17 – Defense attorney Jonathan Trapp says North Carolina State University’s decision to conduct a Title IX investigation into a campus party suggests officials suspect more happened than drug and alcohol violations. Watch...
A Cumberland County man filed what he called a “multi-million dollar” lawsuit in the Durham County Courthouse on Monday, alleging that a Fayetteville-based manufacturer was responsible for his wife’s death at work in 2015. Gerard Winfrey announced in a press...
6/12/17 – The family of a 62-year-old woman who died in June 2015 after passing out at a Fayetteville manufacturing plant filed a multi-million lawsuit Monday against the company they say is responsible for her death. Sherion Winfrey collapsed at the Mann+Hummel...
6/12/17 – Attorneys in Durham filed a multi-million dollar lawsuit Monday against Mann + Hummel, based in Fayetteville. The lawsuit claims the company is responsible for former employee Sherion Winfrey’s death, and is suing the company for gross negligence and...
2/24/17 – Novelist Michael Peterson agreed to a plea deal Friday that enables him to maintain his innocence even as he acknowledges prosecutors have enough evidence to convict him of manslaughter in his wife’s death. The district attorney, for his part, insisted...
2/24/17 – Michael Peterson entered the highly anticipated plea Friday that resolves the murder case that has lingered over him for 15 years, but neither he nor his dead wife’s family left the courthouse fully satisfied with the end of the judicial process....
1/31/17 – A Durham teenager was sentenced to between 10 and 13 years in prison Tuesday for a shooting last year at the D-N-G Mart on N.C. 86, just north of U.S. 70 in Orange County. Antuanne Montez Shaw, 18, of 4534 Linden Road, pleaded guilty to attempted...
4/23/15 – During the celebration of UNC’s 2005 basketball national championship, player Melvin Scott and some of his teammates collapsed on the floor. Eight months ago he watched his life collapse around him when he was accused of drugging and raping a...
4/22/15 – Prosecutors have dismissed second-degree rape charges against Melvin Scott, the former UNC basketball guard who played on the 2005 championship team. The charges, filed in late November, were dismissed Monday after prosecutors received results from...
