FILE - In this Thursday, June 12, 2014 file photo, a North Carolina State Trooper stands guard during the U.S. Open golf tournament in Pinehurst, N.C. On Tuesday, Feb. 18, 2020, an appeals court ruled ...
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — A North Carolina state trooper shouldn’t have been fired for losing his hat and lying about it, an appeals court ruled Tuesday in a case that’s spanned a decade and multiple trips ...
Inside the internal affairs interview room, a 22-year-old North Carolina state trooper was crying. Weeks beforehand, he had lost his department-issued hat. Now the top brass was suspicious about the ...
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Was firing a state trooper who lied about what happened to his hat justified? That was the question before North Carolina’s Supreme Court on Tuesday. Thomas Wetherington, who is ...
RALEIGH, N.C. - A North Carolina state trooper should not have been fired for changing his story about what became of his wide-brimmed hat, the state Court of Appeals ruled Tuesday. The three-judge ...
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — A North Carolina state trooper shouldn’t have been fired for losing his hat and lying about it, an appeals court ruled Tuesday in a case that’s spanned a decade and multiple trips ...