RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — A North Carolina appeals court has said for a second time that a woman convicted of killing her lover should receive a new trial, declaring that text messages and photos from her ...

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Griffin, a Republican, has asked the North Carolina Supreme Court to force the state Board of Elections to throw out more than 60,000 votes that he claims, in part, are invalid because voters ...

For the past 81 days, North Carolina’s democracy has unraveled thread by thread, ensnared in a high-stakes legal labyrinth. At the center of this crisis stands Jefferson Griffin, the defeated ...

The North Carolina Supreme Court dismissed an appellate court judge's legal effort to overturn his electoral defeat on Wednesday, allowing the election protests to proceed in the trial court.

The North Carolina Supreme Court rejected an effort from Republican Jefferson Griffin to expedite his appeal to toss out more than 60,000 ballots in a hotly contested judicial race. The state’s ...

RALEIGH, N.C. -- The North Carolina Supreme Court dismissed on Wednesday a request by the trailing candidate in an extremely close race for a seat on this same court to rule now on whether well ...

North Carolina Supreme Court Passing for Now on Ruling if Ballots in Close Race Are Valid RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — The North Carolina Supreme Court dismissed on Wednesday a request by the trailing ...

A political war has erupted over a state Supreme Court race in North Carolina more than two months after Democrats appeared to narrowly clinch the seat. Justice Allison Riggs, the Democratic ...

North Carolina's GOP-led Supreme Court has refused to certify Justice Allison Riggs' narrow victory after opponent Jefferson Griffin objects. | Credit: Illustration by Julia Wytrazek / Getty ...