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A new digital-based case filing system is being piloted in four North Carolina counties, including Wake, Johnston, Lee, and Harnett.

Superior Court Judge Allen Baddour signed the legal stay dated Thursday. In November, Baddour had set thresholds that the state would have to meet regularly over the next decade.

That fills a vacancy next month when Judge Richard Dietz moves to the state Supreme Court. On Thursday, Cooper announced his pick of Allison Riggs, the co-leader of the Southern Coalition for Social Justice in Durham.

North Carolina government is appealing a judge's order that demands by certain dates many more community services for people with intellectual and development disabilities who otherwise live at institutions.

Two seats were up for grabs this year, and Republicans won both.

A review of campaign finance reports with the State Board of Elections shows the four general election candidates seeking two positions and affluent political action committees have spent at least $15 million combined.

A local judge's ruling could pave the way for sweeping changes to how North Carolina provides services to people with intellectual and developmental disabilities.

The state Court of Appeals says it will begin revealing whether petition rulings are unanimous or 2-1 votes. That will happen the day the order becomes public. The names of the judges on the panel and their individual votes will follow 90 days later.

The Democratic majority held the prevailing opinions Friday in a pair of cases involving youths who committed murder, rape, or both. It agreed that sentences that required the offenders to serve 45 or 50 years before a possible release were the equivalents of having no chance at all and are thus constitutional.

A federal judge has ordered the North Carolina state employee health plan provide “medically necessary services" for transgender people linked to gender confirmation. U.S. District Judge Loretta Biggs ruled Friday it was unlawfully biased for the State Health Plan to exclude coverage for such treatments.