Rodrigo Cruz, a 16-year-old high school student preparing for deportation, walked into an immigration office in Charlotte on Tuesday with a $155 bus ticket to Mexico and walked out with permission to stay temporarily in the United States.

Rodrigo Cruz, a 16-year-old high school student preparing for deportation, walked into an immigration office in Charlotte on Tuesday with a $155 bus ticket to Mexico and walked out with permission to stay temporarily in the United States.

Statements made by eight former and current Winston-Salem police officers to a citizens committee looking into the police investigation of a 1995 beating of a pregnant woman should not be released to the public, the N.C. Court of Appeals ruled Tuesday.