LAURINBURG — For many years, Scotland County residents have gathered together to march up Main Street in recognition of Martin Luther King Jr. Day. Not this year — instead, the march became a caravan.

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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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