In one of his final acts in office, North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper commuted the death sentences of 15 men convicted of first-degree murder to life in prison without the possibility of parole on ...

North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper is leaving his job after eight years in which the southern Democrat picked his moments against ...

North Carolina Gov. Josh Stein announced measures to protect reproductive health care providers and patients via a new ...

One of the inmates receiving clemency had challenged his sentence under the groundbreaking Racial Justice Act of 2009. A ...

By Reid J. Epstein Reporting from Washington Gov. Roy Cooper of North Carolina is set to leave office on New Year’s Day after two terms that began with his effort to undo the state’s ...

Democratic North Carolina Gov. Josh Stein issued an executive order Thursday that he believes will further protect ...

Former U.S. Representative Dan Bishop has quietly ended his defamation case against Jeff Jackson’s campaign for attorney ...

Republicans are refusing to accept North Carolina Supreme Court Justice Allison Riggs' narrow victory in November ...

Gov. Roy Cooper (D-North Carolina) the day after a hurricane on Sept. 6, 2019, in Wilmington, North Carolina. (Elijah Nouvelage for The Washington Post) When Roy Cooper was narrowly elected North ...

HE WAS 82 YEARS OLD. IN NORTH CAROLINA, GOVERNOR ROY COOPER RETURNED HOME TO NASH COUNTY TO GIVE HIS FAREWELL ADDRESS THIS MORNING. THE 67 YEAR OLD DEMOCRAT WAS ALL SMILES AS HE REFLECTED ON HIS ...

In some of his first post-gubernatorial remarks on state politics, Roy Cooper condemned Judge Jefferson Griffin’s ongoing ...

Gov. Roy Cooper announced on Tuesday that he reviewed 89 clemency petitions from death row inmates and granted 15 of them.