The Democratic justice's late Tuesday rebuke refutes the election protests of her opponent, Appellate Court Judge Jefferson Griffin, who trails Riggs in the state's Supreme Court race by just 734 ...

(The court typically has a 5–2 conservative majority, but with Riggs recused, Earls is the only liberal sitting for this case.) She forcefully rejects the majority’s decision to maintain the ...

"We never really broke up… I didn't want to play anymore shows when our bass player Audie Pitre was killed by a drunk driver," said Riggs. "I didn't want to live in that sadness forever.

The GOP is trying to overturn a closely watched North Carolina Supreme Court election where two recounts show Democratic Justice Allison Riggs holding on to her seat, with 734 votes putting her ...