ROWLAND — North Carolina’s Innovative School District has reached out aggressively for grant funds and partnerships, and to the community in its effort to turn Southside-Ashpole Elementary School from a failing school to a high-performing [...]

LUMBERTON — The Lumberton Police Department is investigating recent armed robberies at two local stores, and circulating photographs lawmen hope will lead to arrests. The department released surveillance system images from the robberies at a [...]

LUMBERTON — Democrats will gather Saturday at the Robeson County Courthouse to try again to select someone to fill a vacant Board of Commissioners seat. The Robeson County Democratic Executive Committee for Commissioner District 2 [...]

PEMBROKE — Policy analysts from two of America’s leading think tanks debated the immigration issue Wednesday in front of an audience of about 250 students and faculty at The University of North Carolina at Pembroke. [...]