Legal and Local News

These sites all cover recent developments in the legal world.

Court TV - Live trial coverage, trials in the news, public figures, offbeat crimes and general legal news. Includes some litigation documents and discussion.
Findlaw Legal News - Top legal headlines, and recent news stories by topic. Includes many featured documents in PDF format.
HG Legal News - From Hieros Gamos, this page links to international headlines collected from a broad range of sources powered by Moreover. Also organized by country or continent.
JURIST - Legal News - Provides a constantly updated feed of legal headlines. Recent news items are organized by topic. Also includes links to related research documents and resources, commentaries and discussion forums.
Law.com - Current legal news from American Lawyer Media with many other features that include practice areas, law student sources, CLE, career, and consultants information.
LII's Eye on the Courts - Features quick access to U.S. Supreme Court and New York Court of Appeals cases and selectively provides information on other appellate decisions in the news.
National Law Journal - The leading national legal weekly, a good source of news and information for the legal community, highlighting litigation related coverage.
U.S. Legal News from Lawguru.com - Legal news headlines from a broad selection of news sources including federal agency press releases.

The Herald-Sun - Durham's daily newspaper.
The News & Observer - Raleigh's daily newpaper.
The Chronicle Online - The Duke student newspaper contains today's news and archived issues from March 1993.
Duke Today - Published daily by the Office of News & Communications; intended for the Duke University faculty and staff.
WRAL 5 OnLine - You can read the news or watch a week's worth of news programs from our local CBS affiliate via streaming video.
NBC 17 Online - News and features from our local NBC station. From this site you can easily link to MSNBC.
The Chronicle of Higher Education - Published weekly, The Chronicle is the No. 1 news source for college and university faculty members and administrators. Its online version is Academe Today. A subscription to The Chronicle includes free access to the Academe Today web site and daily electronic-mail updates. Ask at the Reference Desk if you need access to the site and do not have a password.

American Journalism Review Newslink - Comprehensive collection of links to newspapers, magazines, broadcasters and news services.
Library of Congress Collection of Links to Online News Resources - Links to newspapers, periodicals, news resources, foreign news services, historical newspapers, new sources arranged by language, and newspaper indexes.
Online Full-text Journals (Duke Libraries) - Use this search screen to locate the full text of a particular newspaper, magazine or journal title through one of the many databases available through the Duke University Libraries.

Last updated 11/2007 JLB