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Hat's off: Court reverses trooper firing over lost headgear

by Associated Press
| February 18, 2020 10:30 AM

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 through the courts.

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