Elizabeth Leland
The Miami Herald
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Prison officers used sadistic torture and humiliation on rural road crew, inmates say
Charlotte Observer’s ‘Wrong Side of the Bars,’ a North Carolina prison investigation, looks at how guards allegedly abused inmates with hot sauce. → Read More
Prison officers used sadistic torture and humiliation on rural road crew, inmates say
Charlotte Observer’s ‘Wrong Side of the Bars,’ a North Carolina prison investigation, looks at how guards allegedly abused inmates with hot sauce. → Read More
Prison officers used sadistic torture and humiliation on rural road crew, inmates say
Charlotte Observer’s ‘Wrong Side of the Bars,’ a North Carolina prison investigation, looks at how guards allegedly abused inmates with hot sauce. → Read More
Prison officers used sadistic torture and humiliation on rural road crew, inmates say
Charlotte Observer’s ‘Wrong Side of the Bars,’ a North Carolina prison investigation, looks at how guards allegedly abused inmates with hot sauce. → Read More
Prison officers used sadistic torture and humiliation on rural road crew, inmates say
Charlotte Observer’s ‘Wrong Side of the Bars,’ a North Carolina prison investigation, looks at how guards allegedly abused inmates with hot sauce. → Read More
From solitary confinement, a gang leader used smuggled cellphone to order a killing
Charlotte Observer’s ‘Wrong Side of the Bars,’ a North Carolina prison corruption investigation, looks at how guards contribute to contraband. → Read More
Officers allegedly made inmates put skin-blistering hot sauce on their genitals
Charlotte Observer’s ‘Wrong Side of the Bars,’ a North Carolina prison investigation, looks at how guards allegedly abused inmates with hot sauce. → Read More
How your tax dollars fund sex, drugs and abuse in NC prisons
North Carolina tax dollars fund unethical hiring, prison guard corruption and violence, creating a black market where inmates buy contraband from correction officers. → Read More
Secret gesture, bloody shanks: Did prison officials allow this deadly attack?
Did prison gangs, inmates and prison guards collude in criminal acts including murder? Surveillance from one NC prison shows violent attack. → Read More
Church told woman she had sinned by marrying another woman – and should repent
A year after Kelly Toney and her wife married, she got a letter from the pastor and deacons of her childhood church in Rutherford County, NC, calling their relationship a sin and asking her to “display repentance and abandonment of this area of open immorality.” → Read More
North Carolina doesn’t see a need to protect LGBTQ people. But we found victims whose stories say otherwise.
Despite America’s dramatic shift toward acceptance, LGBTQ residents across North Carolina are routinely singled out for condemnation and discrimination – sometimes even physical violence – because of who they are. They’ve been targeted for years. HB2, nicknamed “the bathroom bill,” has heightened fear. → Read More
Chef says she was called anti-gay slurs, then body-slammed in attack
Police charged two 17-year-olds with misdemeanor assault and have asked the FBI whether they can be prosecuted under the federal hate crime law. → Read More
Death by the river: Controversial DNA clue leads to arrest in coed's murder
Over and over, Mark Carver and Neal Cassada insisted they never saw Ira Yarmolenko or her car. But a forensic scientist said she found matches between the men’s DNA and DNA lifted from Ira’s car. → Read More
Death by the river: Controversial DNA clue leads to arrest in coed's murder
Over and over, Mark Carver and Neal Cassada insisted they never saw Ira Yarmolenko or her car. But a forensic scientist said she found matches between the men’s DNA and DNA lifted from Ira’s car. → Read More
Death by the river: Homicide ruling sends police in search of a killer
Some first responders thought Ira Yarmolenko killed herself. But the person whose opinion mattered – the medical examiner – ruled her death a homicide. → Read More
Death by the river: Homicide ruling sends police in search of a killer
Some first responders thought Ira Yarmolenko killed herself. But the person whose opinion mattered – the medical examiner – ruled her death a homicide. → Read More
Death by the river: Coed murder leaves fisherman defenseless
“There’s a car that’s run off an embankment and there’s a body … laying there!” – a terrified caller to 911. → Read More
Death by the river: Coed murder leaves fisherman defenseless
“There’s a car that’s run off an embankment and there’s a body … laying there!” – a terrified caller to 911. → Read More
Man who fled Ethiopia barefoot offers shoe shines, inspiration
He provides ‘the best shine in the country’ at Charlotte Douglas airport → Read More
Architect given weeks to live has one last plan
Ron Morgan, 73, given only a 20 percent chance of surviving cancer, plans to leave behind the groundwork for a state-of-the-art greenhouse and learning laboratory on Charlotte’s west side and money enough to get it started. → Read More