5+ day, 16+ hour ago   (231+ words) PEMBROKE — A special pregame ceremony will be held at the Purnell Swett High School football game against Red Springs on Friday, Sept. 11th, to honor the memory of those lost 25 years ago on 9/11, and those who serve in the military or…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (194+ words) “It’s not a final version, it’s only a draft. But we’ll be moving it out of committee into the speaker’s realm for him to schedule public hearings for the community review the document and give feedback.” — Lumbee Tribal Councilman Rudy Locklear,…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (557+ words) We don’t have enough problems trying to educate our 1 million school children in North Carolina, so our esteemed legislators decided they would throw another monkey wrench into things. Hidden deep in the bowels of the 634-page, $34 billion budget lawmakers finally…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (519+ words) The month of September has been home to many historical events over the years. Here’s a look at some that helped to shape the world in Sept. 1926. — The funeral train of actor Rudolph Valentino arrives in Chicago on Sept. 3 after…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (373+ words) RALEIGH — Some cities and towns bear the names of explorers, military commanders, poets or politicians. Others refer to geographical features or landmarks. And some preserve the memory of local customs, industries or historical events. RALEIGH — Some cities and towns…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago   (871+ words) PEMBROKE — Twenty-one candidates are running for seven available seats on the Lumbee Tribal Council in the Tribal election on Nov. 17 after each filed to run during the filing period, which ran from Aug. 17 through 5 p.m. Friday. This includes three districts…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago   (693+ words) Congressman Don Davis was serving food and shaking hands with his new constituents on a recent Saturday in Pamlico County, one of six counties added to his district last October when our legislature, at Donald Trump’s insistence, gerrymandered the 1st Congressional…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (339+ words) A historical marker denoting the Battle of Elizabethtown sits near the site of the battle. ELIZABETHTOWN — The Col. Thomas Robeson Chapter of the Sons of the American Revolution is hosting the 245th Anniversary of the Battle of Elizabethtown on Saturday, beginning…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (278+ words) RALEIGH — Earlier this month, the voters of Missouri decisively defeated a constitutional amendment authorizing an end to the state’s income tax. It was an overwhelming defeat — 17% for, 83% against — for a ballot measure that failed in urban, suburban and rural counties…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (717+ words) Our state’s greatest threat likely won’t come from storms, although we all know the damage hurricanes, floods and ice storms can create. It won’t come from political upheavals or a revolution, although we acknowledge the turmoil that could result. And…...