A new year is upon us and with it, some important changes in state government. As a result of the November election, North ...

North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper will leave the mansion. Sweaters, driving, sports and maybe the Senate are in his future.

Gov. Roy Cooper announced on Tuesday that he reviewed 89 clemency petitions from death row inmates and granted 15 of them.

Gov. Roy Cooper is the first governor in the history of North Carolina’s modern death penalty to commute more than two death ...

One of the inmates receiving clemency had challenged his sentence under the groundbreaking Racial Justice Act of 2009. A ...

WINSTON SALEM, N.C. (WGHP) — On Governor Roy Cooper’s final day in office Tuesday, he commuted the sentences of 15 death row ...

North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper commuted the death sentences of 15 inmates in the state on his last day in office, a move that ...

Gov. Roy Cooper announced he would change the death sentences of 15 people to life in prison without parole as one of his ...

As one of his last acts in office, Gov. Roy Cooper commuted the sentences of 15 people on North Carolina's death row to life ...

In one of his final acts in office, North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper has commuted the death sentences of 15 men convicted of ...

In one of his final acts in office, North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper commuted the death sentences of 15 men convicted of ...

By Reid J. Epstein Reporting from Washington Gov. Roy Cooper of North Carolina is set to leave office on New Year’s Day after two terms that began with his effort to undo the state’s ...