Law Enforcement

State Treasurer Dale Folwell is recommending a death benefit usually reserved for officers killed in the line of duty be granted to Greensboro police Sergeant Dale Nix, who

The Forsyth County Sheriff's Office announced the arrest of two detention center workers, a food service employee, as well as additional charges for an inmate in connection to alleged identity theft.

Mourners gathered Thursday for the funeral service of Greensboro Police Sergeant Dale Nix.

Hundreds of people gathered in Greensboro Wednesday to honor Sergeant Philip Dale Nix, who was shot and killed on Saturday.

Town officials say officers repeatedly charged a nonprofit to provide security at events, and then pocketed the money. 

A release issued by the town Tuesday said Chief of Police Robbie Jackson had been placed on leave with pay “as the town investigates the Pilot Mountain Police Department.” 

Winston-Salem police asked for more community input during a press conference Wednesday to address a spate of recent violence.

A man who claimed innocence in connection with a 1995 brutal assault in Winston-Salem has died. Kalvin Michael Smith was at the center of a racially divisive case that was one of the region’s most prominent allegations of wrongful conviction. 

Updated on June 23, 2023, at 10:39 a.m.

A central North Carolina sheriff's deputy shot and killed a man during a hostage situation Thursday after the suspect came at deputies with a sledgehammer inside a home, officials said.