Police

The town of Bethel’s board of commissioners gave approval for the Pitt County Sheriff’s Department to cover certain police operations.

In Durham County, the sheriff’s office has 125 open positions. About 100 of them are at the county jail. WUNC's Will Michaels spoke with Durham County Sheriff Clarence Birkhead about why the vacancies persist.

UNC-Chapel Hill students say university officials have banned their classmate Jamie Marsicano, a second-year law student, from attending class in-person after being arrested on a charge of domestic terrorism at a protest in Georgia last month.

The bill would require sheriffs in the state to cooperate with federal immigration authorities.

The unarmed community response teams are designed to respond to the vast majority of 911 calls, which don't involve violent crime.

A bus carrying 18 students from the historically Black university in Raleigh was stopped on I-85 on Oct. 5. Deputies allege it was weaving in and out of traffic.

Jacksonville Police Chief Mike Yaniero said Thursday that two minors were taken to the hospital with injuries and that one later died after the attack at Northside High School in Jacksonville. He said that a student suspect was arrested shortly after the attack that occurred around 7 a.m.

Joined by more than a dozen current and former law enforcement officers at a news conference in Durham on Monday, Beasley announced new legislative priorities to strengthen public safety and mend the frayed relationship between her party and the police force.

Greensboro police announced in a news release Monday that Matthew Hamilton had been fired from the department because of the indictment.

Douglas Strader was terminated from the Greensboro police department in 2020 after he fired his gun at a fleeing vehicle.