Law-school students working with Wake Forest University’s Innocence and Justice Clinic are investigating the innocence claim of a former Winston-Salem man who has been convicted twice of killing his lover’s husband in South Carolina. Read the full story »

Famed ESPN and ABC college basketball analyst Jay Bilas spoke at the university on Oct. 7 in Brendle Recital Hall as a part of the Voices of Our Time lecture series. Read the full story »

Mark Hall, a professor of law and public health at Wake Forest University, has been appointed to a federal advisory board that is implementing a part of the Affordable Care Act. Read the full story »

Wake Forest University School of Law Dean Blake D. Morant has been named recipient of the John R. Kramer Outstanding Law School Dean Award from Equal Justice Works. The prestigious award is given annually to a law school dean who has demonstrated leadership in building an institution that nurtures a spirit of public service during his tenure at an Equal Justice Works participating member law school. Read the full story »

Blake Morant, dean of the Wake Forest University School of Law, has received the prestigious Equal Justice Works’ John R. Kramer Outstanding Law School Dean Award. Read the full story »

Winston-Salem police wanted to test additional evidence before Joseph Abbitt was freed from prison on rape charges last year, but the suggestion was not heeded, Police Chief Scott Cunningham said yesterday. Read the full story »

When Joseph Lamont Abbitt was freed last September, he thought that would be the end of the case that sent him to prison for 14 years. Read the full story »

A girl who police say was sexually victimized by a Parkland High School teacher this spring might have been spared if school officials had told law enforcement about an allegation against the same teacher in 2006, the attorney for the girl’s family says. Read the full story »

Federal agents confirmed today that they have seized the operations of Chinqua Penn Plantation in Reidsville as part of a bankruptcy lawsuit involving its owner, Calvin Phelps. Read the full story »

State representative Joshua O’Farrell (D) recently spoke with members of the Newcomerstown Board of Education during its meeting Sept. 13. Read the full story »