RALEIGH (AP) — North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper granted a pardon Wednesday to a man who was once on death row for a shopkeeper’s slaying and spent more than 40 years in prison before he was released.
RALEIGH — North Carolina Senate Republicans pushed a trio of election measures through their chamber on Wednesday, including one that would prohibit counting mail-in absentee ballots that aren’t received by local officials by Election Day.
LAURINBURG — The city of Laurinburg could be getting rid of yard waste in a new way soon.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden wants to imbue Independence Day with new meaning this year by encouraging nationwide celebrations to mark the country’s effective return to normalcy after 16 months of coronavirus pandemic disruption and more than 600,000 lives lost.
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LAURINBURG — School may be out for summer, but high school band director Britton Goodwin says it is almost time to start gearing up and get ready for the upcoming fall Scotland High marching band performances.
LAURINBURG — Back in May, Lisa McLean Grooms, also known locally as “The Cake Lady,” was given what she described as “the honor of being entered into the Greatest Baker Competition,” which was held on Facebook. She did not take the official win, but she feels she got the ultimate win.
LAURINBURG —It was on May 9, 2020, that the community lost one of its well-known members, Kenneth Purcell. A little more than a year later, his family is continuing to carry his mantle.
I want to say how glad I am that I am a part of God’s church. I thank God for the church. And by that, I mean to be connected to and be a member of the body of Christ, God’s church.
If records from the world in general and America, in particular, survive a few more generations, I rather suspect that one item of interest will generate a lot of buzz amongst those future historians:
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