ALBEMARLE — A Gibson youngster recently took on her first pageant competition and came home with two crowns.

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LAURINBURG — $406,425.12.

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CHAPEL HILL — When Penelope ‘Penny’ Muse Abernathy was a high school senior in Laurinburg, her school newspaper made a projection: their editor would one day be at The New York Times.

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WASHINGTON — To see it unspool — to watch the jumbled images ricochet, live, across the world’s endless screens — was, as an American, a struggle to believe your eyes. But there it was, in the capital city of the United States in early January 2021: a real-time breaking and entering the likes of which the republic has never seen.

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LAURINBURG — For 50 years, Pastor Kenneth Blease has been serving the congregation at Northview Harvest Ministries. On Sunday, he was presented with the Order of the Long Leaf Pine, the state’s highest award for service given by the governor.

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