President Obama, looking every bit the part, on Tuesday night declared the end of the Iraq War for American soldiers, therefore bringing to a conclusion the first such conflict this country has wag...
Ready or not Five years ago Americans were just beginning to understand the devastation that Hurricane Katrina wrought on Louisiana and Mississippi, two states that have yet to fully recover from the event. Pr...
Scandal at UNC-CH Four years ago when the University of North Carolina hired Butch Davis as its football coach, the message was through a megaphone: The university’s administration was ready for the football Tar He...
That is All: How I spent my summer vacation “Vacation, all I ever wanted, vacation, had to get away …” — Go-Go’s While vacationing on the Atlantic coast earlier this month, I saw a shark. He was big and ugly and fast. I was weak and...
A race to better health On Saturday in Pembroke, 100 youths ages 6 to 15 will swim a little, run a little, and ride a bicycle a little — still normal activities for kids in an age of video games and iPods, but less so th...
Killer issue
A recent study has found that the death penalty in this state is too often meted out based on race, but not in the manner that springs first to mind. It is not the color of the defendant that matt...
The noise continues County officials are finding the critics of Robeson County Animal Shelter are as difficult to get rid of as, say, parvo. The Health Department and shelter manager are now being criticized for euth...
It has been a hard year for the state Highway Patrol, whose reputation as a preeminent law enforcement agency has been sullied by the actions of more than a few troopers, but far fewer than many. ...
The loosening of eligibility requirements to receive food stamps will mean about a 50 percent increase in the number of applications at the Robeson County Department of Social Services each month, ...
History was made Monday night when the Public Schools of Robeson County elected two women — Loistine DeFreece and Jo Ann Lowery — to the board’s leadership positions. “Thank you for your vote of c...
Here’s a fish story — and it’s true. Last week Andy Thomossan, fishing aboard the Citation captained by Eric Holmes, caught an 883-pound blue marlin, and his timing could not have been better, as ...
To the Editor, Over the course of the past few weeks, we have been preparing for our summer internships at NASA Kennedy Space Center. We have been receiving countless congratulations and praise. W...
The best decision made by City Council on Monday was probably a no decision. The council debated, sometimes heatedly but mostly confusedly, a businessman’s request for a conditional-use permit t...
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