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LUMBERTON — Robeson County’s longest pending murder case came to a close this week— 19 years after the victim, a 24-year-old student at The University of North Carolina at Pembroke, was killed. Dane Locklear Jr., 45, pleaded guilty Tuesday to second...

Scowl-field and Fitz-Cryin’ over at NCPolicywatch have been engaged in tickle fights ever since the nation’s highest court split on North Carolina’s voter ID law.   It’s a blow against racism, we’re told, that no one will be able to verify anybody’s...

ElectriCities service area. (Photo: ElectriCities.) By Dominique Cantelme From the May/June 2013 issue In April, South Carolina’s unemployment rate dropped to 8 percent, its lowest in five years. That same month saw North Carolina’s unemployment...

The origins of the 55,000 member Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina are unclear. Many think the Lumbee are descendants of Sir Walter Raleigh’s Roanoke Island “Lost Colonists” of 1587, the first permanent English settlers in North America. A new group of...

It's amazing how the justice system fails sometimes, and fails epically. Quote: RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina's longest-serving death row inmate and his younger half brother walked out as free men Wednesday, three decades after they were convicted...