Court Rejects Basketball Player’s Request for New Sexual Assault Trial Against Former Coach
Miya Giles-Jones contended a juror’s misconduct of asking a witness for a date during the original trial tainted the verdict against her.
Cumberland County sued over $1.3M in unpaid fees for Crown Event Center design
Architecture firm says it’s owed for work it did before the county pulled the plug on the downtown venue.
Cumberland County judge orders demolition of crime-ridden Coliseum Inn
Property near the Crown Coliseum must be razed by Dec. 18. The owners have agreed to tear it down.
City wins $236k judgment against contractor that abandoned tennis and community center projects
Contractor made counter-claim for $12.84 million, but didn’t show up for Monday’s court hearing
Former Hope Mills police officer pleads guilty in fentanyl overdose case
Bradley Hall Rountree sentenced to two years of probation for taking fentanyl from police evidence room
Jury awards $100 judgment in Dogwood Festival defamation lawsuit
Malia Allen must pay $100 to Carrie King for comments made on TikTok. She could owe $10,000 more in lawyer fees
Public invited to celebrate 99th anniversary of Cumberland County’s Historic Courthouse
Opened in 1926, replaced in 1978, was a movie location in 1991
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Stephen Stokes moving from Cumberland District Court to Superior Court
Judge Stokes to fill the seat vacated by Judge Claire V. Hill, who retired in December
Judge considering whether to grant new trial in coach sexual assault lawsuit
A judge anticipates ruling by this coming Tuesday whether to grant a new trial for college basketball player Miya Giles-Jones of Fayetteville in the sexual assault lawsuit she filed against her former high school coach, Thurston Jackie Robinson.
Jury finds girls’ basketball coach not liable in sexual assault lawsuit
Former girls’ basketball coach Thurston Jackie Robinson on Thursday won a civil lawsuit that accused him of illegal sexual contact with one of the players.
Appeals court upholds man’s conviction for murdering wife
Leo George Rubenstahl will stay in prison for the rest of his life for shooting to death his wife, Enelrae Rubenstahl, in their home north of Fayetteville in February 2021, the N.C. Court of Appeals …
Fayetteville’s Blackbeard shipwreck filmmaker fires back in new court case
Fayetteville filmmaker Rick Allen has filed an amended complaint against the state of North Carolina, alleging misuse of his copyrighted footage of the notorious pirate Blackbeard’s shipwreck, the Queen Anne’s Revenge.