Stone Walls: “In the midst of an ongoing U.S. Department of Justice cold case investigation into the circumstances surrounding the 1970 murder of James L. Cates Jr., UNC has now announced plans to permanently memorialize James Cates on its landscape. On Friday, Chancellor Kevin Guskiewicz released a statement about the James Cates Memorial, which will be installed by the Pit…

WBTV: “The Wake County District Attorney’s office pursued a criminal investigation into North Carolina Attorney General Josh Stein despite a recommendation that the case be closed, according to a memo obtained by WBTV. The memo, written by a North Carolina State Board of Elections attorney, is the latest revelation in an unprecedented case involving the…

Political Wire: “Lawyers for Rudy Giuliani have been told that he is a target of a criminal investigation in Georgia into election interference by Donald Trump and his advisers,” the New York Times reports. “Earlier this summer, prosecutors questioned witnesses before a special grand jury about Mr. Giuliani’s appearances before state legislative panels in December 2020, when…

WaPo: “Former Louisville detective Kelly Goodlett intends to plead guilty this month to federal charges in connection to the fatal police shooting of Breonna Taylor, in what would be the first conviction in a case that sparked months of racial justice protests in that city and across the country. Goodlett and her attorney, Brandon Marshall,…

Futurism: “After the gigantic BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico back in 2010, researchers have found that in spite of cleanup efforts, residue remained some ten years later. As detailed in a new study, published in the journal Frontiers in Marine Science, researchers found oil residue a decade after the Deepwater Horizon oil spill —…

Slate: “At the end of August, in a courtroom in Virginia Beach, a judge will decide whether to put two books on trial for obscenity. This is a strange sentence to write, and I expect a strange sentence to read, because these days books don’t go on trial for obscenity. Books haven’t really gone on…

WaPo: “For nearly four years, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has pursued an approach to governing that has violated the freedoms of people in our state, inventing whatever enemies would help him in his ambition to be the next Donald Trump. Without warning, last week, he added me to his list. An armed sheriff’s deputy and…

TX Observer: “California-based journalist Kirk Wallace Johnson was driving through the Sierra Nevadas in December 2018 to fish in a river when that “Springsteen song came on about a white shrimper planning to kill a Vietnamese refugee in Galveston Bay over turf. It was such a strange premise for a song that it stuck with me,” he…

HuffPo: “Few details have been made public as to why, exactly, the FBI and Department of Justice felt the urgent need to raid former president Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort on Monday. Reports indicate Trump had been holding onto materials that were supposed to have been turned over to the National Archives. But officials have not commented on what was…

The Assembly: “Ride through downtown, past the Old Guilford County Courthouse and under the 21-story Lincoln Financial tower, and there it sits: a 158,000-square-foot monument to Brutalist architecture, all sharp angles and skinny windows.  “News & Record, Greensboro, North Carolina,” the sign out front of 200 East Market Street declares, though the paper hasn’t been…