The jury in the Pinelake murder trial did not convict the defendant of first-degree murder, which could have carried a death penalty.
Several of the patients killed during a rampage at the Pinelake Health and Rehabilitation Center in Moore County were shot from a very close range, the former state medical examiner said Wednesday.
A Wilmington man is in jail charged with breaking into a store on N. 4th Street late Monday night.
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