Rep. Thomas Wright

Thomas Wright's 2008 conviction will stand. Tuesday, judges denied Wright's appeal of three counts of obtaining property by false pretenses. Full story...

On Tuesday, voters in parts of New Hanover and Pender counties will select a permanent representative for the 18th House District Seat formerly held by Thomas Wright. Full story...

Former North Carolina Rep. Thomas Wright has been found guilty of felony obstruction of justice. Full story...

Day two of former State Rep. Thomas Wright's obstruction of justice trial and his lawyer has declined to present any evidence in defense. Full story...

Former New Hanover Rep. Thomas Wright was back in court today, facing a trial for obstruction of justice. Full story...

Sandra Spaulding Hughes will face Republican Thom Goolsby, a Wilmington attorney, in the general election in November. Full story...

Prison officials brought Wright to Vanceboro just hours after he was found guilty of fraud. Wright pulled in to the Craven Correctional Institution after the judge handed him a six-to-eight-year sentence. The institution is a processing center for new inmates. Full story...

The people previously represented by former state House member Thomas Wright officially have their replacement. Full story...

On Monday former state Rep. Thomas Wright was found guilty of three of the four felony fraud charges that he was facing. He's already in jail, and for now he's at the Craven County Correctional Facility in Vanceboro. Full story...

Former state Rep. Thomas Wright is working his way through the North Carolina prison system. Wright was convicted on three counts of fraud yesterday in Raleigh and sentenced to as much as eight years in prison. Full story...

Former Rep. Thomas Wright has been sentenced between roughly six and eight years in prison after a jury found him guilty of fraud. The crimes are nearly identical to those that led his colleagues in the House to kick him out of office.

• Spaulding Hughes named as Wright's replacement
• Wright defends himself at trial, says letter not for loan
• Thomas Wright story archive

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Five people came forward Thursday night in hopes of filling Thomas Wright's seat in the State House of Representatives. Sandra Spaulding Hughes received the majority of votes. Full story...

Former Rep. Thomas Wright denies that he committed fraud by persuading a state official to write a letter about a nonexistent state grant. Wright also insists he didn't use the letter to take out a $150,000 loan. Full story...

Was Thomas Wright involved in a real estate scam? That's what Wake County DA Colon Willoughby tried to prove during the second day of testimony in the trial of the former Wilmington lawmaker. Full story...

For the third time, evidence detailing the alleged crimes of former Rep. Thomas Wright is before the public. Full story...