3 charged, including 2 teens, after sweepstakes casino and parked cars struck by gunfire in Raleigh: Police

RALEIGH, N.C. (WNCN) — Three people, including two teenagers, are facing charges after an occupied business and vehicle were hit by gunfire in Raleigh last month, police said Friday. According to the Raleigh Police Department, officers responded to a report of a shooting in the 800 block of Rock Quarry Road around 11:30 a.m. on … Read more

17-year-old charged with underage drinking in Nash County crash that seriously hurt 14-year-old bicyclist: Police

NASHVILLE, N.C. (WNCN) — A teenage driver is accused of underage drinking in a crash that seriously hurt a teenage bicyclist in Nash County, police said Friday. According to the Nashville Police Department, officers responded on Wednesday just before 3 p.m. to a crash involving a vehicle and a bicycle on South First Street near … Read more

‘The show must go on,’ Trump says at White House correspondents’ dinner rescheduled after shooting

By JOCELYN NOVECK President Donald Trump addressed a huge roomful of journalists Friday night at a correspondents’ dinner rescheduled from April after a shooting upended the first edition. Said the president: “As I said three months ago, the show must go on.” Trump entered the ballroom to polite applause, and was thanked for his support … Read more

Supreme Court litigator gets 6 years in prison for tax evasion case after gambling millions on poker

By MICHAEL KUNZELMAN WASHINGTON (AP) — A prominent Supreme Court litigator was sentenced on Friday to six years in prison for evading a multimillion-dollar IRS tax debt and engaging in mortgage fraud, a case that cast a spotlight on his secretive lifestyle as a high-stakes poker player and featured trial testimony from a Hollywood movie … Read more

Biden drops lawsuit seeking to block release of recordings of his interviews with a ghostwriter

By MICHAEL KUNZELMAN WASHINGTON (AP) — Joe Biden on Friday dropped a lawsuit in which he sought block the release of audio recordings and transcripts of his interviews with a memoir ghostwriter before the Delaware Democrat was elected president, paving the way for the material to be released to a Republican-led congressional committee. Biden’s attorneys … Read more

‘The show must go on,’ Trump says at White House correspondents’ dinner rescheduled after shooting

By JOCELYN NOVECK President Donald Trump addressed a huge roomful of journalists Friday night at a correspondents’ dinner rescheduled from April after a shooting upended the first edition. Said the president: “As I said three months ago, the show must go on.” Trump entered the ballroom to polite applause, and was thanked for his support … Read more

Judge who forced Trump DOJ to back down on NYT subpoenas not done with them yet: report

The Justice Department made a major retreat this week, withdrawing its controversial subpoenas against New York Times journalists intended to root out a leak. But the federal judge who strong-armed them into backing down isn’t finished with them quite yet. According to Lawfare’s Anna Bower, U.S. District Judge Arun Subramanian of New York issued an … Read more