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October 22, 2009
Local labyrinths’ paths cross boundaries of faith and tradition
Patricia Bell had seen a number of labyrinths during her travels as a magazine editor, particularly in Europe. The Landfall resident also has walked the winding paths in Wilmington - at Lower Cape Fear Hospice and Church of the Servant. “It’s just very peaceful,“ she said about labyrinths, which go back thousands of years and have become a meditative tool for people from various walks of life.
College faces accreditation issues
St. Andrews Presbyterian College in Laurinburg could lose students because of accreditation problems.
October 21, 2009
Progress Energy joins industry in pledge to make electric vehicles a reality
The pledge builds on existing actions to help prepare the market for full-scale commercialization and deployment of PEVs by aggressive action in five focus areas: charging infrastructure, customer service, customer education, incentives and conversion of utility fleets.
Charlotte heroin deaths on rise in ‘09
Heroin overdoses and deaths in Charlotte have more than tripled since last year, a concern to authorities who want to prevent a repeat of the city’s drug battles of the early 1990s. Local officials are particularly concerned that gangs, most of which are connected to Mexican drug organizations, are aggressively targeting teenagers.
Escaped Robeson County inmate caught Tuesday night
Sheriff Sealy said Herman Locklear, 52 was apprehended Tuesday night at an apartment near Maxton.
October 20, 2009
NC State Fair hangs on to fans
On a sunny Monday afternoon with temperatures in the low 60s, parked cars stretched down both sides of Hillsborough Street near the N.C. State Fairgrounds. There were lines to buy miniature doughnuts and fried cheese, to ride in a tiny helicopter and to squeeze a cow’s udders.
Anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan to speak in Brunswick County
Peace activist Cindy Sheehan will give a speech Monday at Brunswick Community College that likely will include much more than ending America’s wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and aim at a broader concept than that of an anti-war agenda.
October 17, 2009
Former Brunswick sheriff Hewett released from prison
Former Brunswick County sheriff Ronald Hewett has been released from prison and sent to an undisclosed halfway house. Hewett was released from Butner Federal Correctional Complex near Raleigh on Thursday and transferred to a community corrections facility, Bureau of Prisons spokesman Edmond Ross said.
October 16, 2009
Sweepstakes parlors generate mixed reaction
As sweepstakes game parlors, operating as a legal makeover of video poker and Internet electronic games, sweep the state, some local governments are taking steps to stem the tide.
October 15, 2009
Ghost hunters search for paranormal activity
Mick Barraza believes in ghosts. He said he has seen them in action. Years ago, Barraza was in bed asleep when he heard his stepson’s tricycle being ridden in the house. Wondering what the boy was doing up so late at night, Barraza got up to check. “With my own eyes,“ he said, “I saw the tricycle going around in circles.“
October 14, 2009
Prisoner escapes deputy’s custody in Pembroke
Robeson County Deputies are searching for man who escaped while being taken to a Pembroke courtroom Wednesday morning.
Shingle Tree Acres residents pleading for basic amenities
Not far from the hustle and bustle in southwestern Brunswick County, where new golf courses and wealthy subdivisions line U.S. 17, sits a decades old community lacking basic needs.
October 13, 2009
Manners help make Miracle on the Hudson
Nine months after skidding to salvation on the icy Hudson River, passengers of Charlotte-bound Flight 1549 have their say in a book being released today, one that contains an intriguing hypothesis: A key reason that evacuation of the jetliner went so smoothly was because it was largely populated by Southerners.
October 09, 2009
Hospital enacts tighter restrictions for visitors because of flu
Southeastern Regional Medical Center will not allow anyone under 18 to visit hospital
Homecoming queen has made significant strides since car crash
It’s hard to keep up with South Columbus High School’s homecoming queen as she speeds around its hallways in her wheelchair, leaving a trail of talk and laughter on her way to class. Senior Brionna Spivey beat out five other girls in the homecoming court when her fellow students chose her to be their queen earlier this month. But Brionna, who turns 17 on Monday, has already beaten much tougher odds.
October 08, 2009
Lumberton to start voluntary recycling
Residents can now choose whether or not to recycle
Winston-Salem Dell plant to close in 2010
From Day One, the Dell Inc. computer-assembly plant in Forsyth County had an expiration date. The local community and 905 employees learned yesterday that the date will be around Jan. 31 — nearly four years and four months after the plant opened with great fanfare and promise in October 2005.
October 07, 2009
UNCP biodiesel program received federal grant
The University of North Carolina at Pembroke has received $750,000 for a biodiesel research program.
Brunswick schools won’t renew McGee’s contract as superintendent
The Brunswick County school board announced late Tuesday that it will not renew the contract of Superintendent Katie McGee. School board member Bud Thorsen made a motion to begin the search for a new superintendent. All but one board member, Scott Milligan, backed the motion.
October 06, 2009
Swine-flu shot faces PR fight
Bert Curcio is more afraid of the flu shot than the swine flu itself. He won’t be showing up when health departments, doctors’ offices and other clinics begin offering the first vaccinations against the new H1N1 influenza in coming days.
October 05, 2009
Coyotes invading Cape Fear region of North Carolina
Reports of wildlife now come in from every North Carolina county, officials say.
October 04, 2009
Escaped kidnapping suspect re-captured
Robeson County Sheriff’s deputies re-captured a kidnapping suspect who escaped from the county jail Tuesday night.
October 01, 2009
McIntyre announces $50 million for Lumbee River EMC
U.S. Representative Mike McIntyre announced Thursday that the Lumbee River EMC has received a $50,000,000 federal loan for its operations and service.
New rest area is the N.C.‘s first ‘green’ one
The Northwest North Carolina Visitor Center and rest area, which will open today beside U.S. 421 northbound, is the state’s first green rest area.
So, what to do with all that plastic?
Starting Thursday, tossing plastic bottles into the garbage can with the rest of your household trash will be against state law. But this leaves many town residents asking the question, “What am I to do with my plastic bottles?“
Ex-Brunswick County Sheriff Hewett expected to leave prison early
Former Brunswick County Sheriff Ronald Hewett is expected to be released early from federal prison and sent to a halfway house in Wilmington. Hewett, 46, is projected to get out of prison Jan. 12, more than two months before the conclusion of his 16-month sentence for obstructing justice.
September 30, 2009
Robeson County deputies arrest jail escapee
Early Sunday morning, authorities re-captured a man who deputies say used a medical excuse to escape from the Robeson County Detention Center last week.
Police target drivers who ignore stopped buses
The lights flashed on the school bus, indicating it was about to stop. The red “stop” arm came out as the bus slowed to a halt on South Kerr Avenue near Franklin Avenue. But Loretha Jenkins, of Andrews, S.C., who approached in the opposite direction in a white Ford Explorer, kept going.
September 29, 2009
NASA teams up with lcoal schools to offer unique learning, working opportunities
Federal grant brings space agency into Robeson County classrooms.
Your panhandling permit, please?
During the down economy, panhandling-related offenses are on the rise in Raleigh. So far this year, police have arrested 212 people on charges, such as panhandling without a permit, loitering and pedestrian interference.
