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Unless blocked by the U.S. Supreme Court, Alabama will attempt to put a man to death with nitrogen gas Thursday night, a never used execution method that the state claims will be humane but critics call cruel and experimental. Kenneth Eugene Smith, a 58-year-old convicted killer whose 2022 lethal injection was called off at the last minute because authorities couldn’t connect an IV line, is scheduled to be executed at […]

ALAMANCE COUNTY, NC  — A driver accused of a deadly hit-and-run in Alamance County has been arrested states away, according to troopers. The North Carolina State Highway Patrol says the suspect in the hit-and-run that killed Darrin Alston Swann, 19, of Liberty, was taken into custody. His vehicle was side-swiped by a Penske box truck, causing him to swerve off the road into a ditch. He died at the scene. The truck […]

In a case that has drawn international attention, a grand jury in Ohio is considering whether to indict a woman who miscarried at home and disposed of the nonviable fetus. The woman, Brittany Watts, 34, of Warren, Ohio, was arrested in October after passing a fetus in her bathroom and trying to flush the remains down the toilet. The case has been before a Trumbull County grand jury since November. […]

WASHINGTON, N.C. (WNCT) — The Beaufort County Sheriff’s Office and the NC State Bureau of Investigations on Thursday morning were processing the home of the suspect in Wednesday’s potential explosive device found in a vehicle at a shopping center in Washington. Officials said Thursday morning in a media release that the search warrant was obtained based on information gathered during Wednesday’s incident. There is no known threat to the public, said Maj. […]