Autryville News

In 2006, when one of her professional advisers invited her to a luncheon hosted by the Cumberland Community Foundation, Flora Cornelia "Neill" Bullock Wilkins had had little or no connection with the organization.

By Doug Clark Assistant Editor A midday fire sent no less than seven fire deparments to the 200 block of Marion-Amos Road, just east of Roseboro, Wednesday to contain a fire that had engulfed a house in the area.

The Sampson County Sheriff's Office has issued an Amber Alert for missing 4-year-old Marlon Ramon Torres.

Before she died in 2007, Flora Cornelia Bullock Wilkins gave $10,000 to the Cumberland Community Foundation for the creation of an endowment fund.

The last two Sampson County residents federally indicted as part of a oeOperation Juiced Outa have now been sentenced, bringing to a close a comprehensive methamphetamine investigation that blanketed the county and took a sizable chunk out of the production and distribution of the drug in Sampson.

Hollerin' Contest event organizer Wayne Edwards holds the mic for Ermon Godwin, who many attributed with preserving the tradition of hollerin' over the years.

Arrests 6/3 a 'A Jermelle Levar Smith, 29, of 304 Turlington Street, Clinton, was charged with failure to heed light or siren and a red light violation.

A cold, wet spring could reduce volumes of some Fourth of July staples, but for the most part, shippers expect strong demand for promotable supplies of high-quality fruits and vegetables.

Arrests 5/28 a 'A Shalanda Carlton, 21, of 315 Community Road, Warsaw, was charged with injury to personal property .

A Sampson County man was arrested for the manufacture of methamphetamine and placed under a $500,000 secured bond Wednesday evening after the State Bureau of Investigations, the Sampson County Sheriff's Special Investigations Division, sheriff's officers and the State Probation and Parole Unit converged on his home just outside of Salemburg, ...

When melon shippers track where their product goes, the trail no longer stops at the retail or wholesale level.

Two Maxwell Road residents were arrested for possessing marijuana and heroin in a Thursday night drug bust that took place within 100 yards of Clement Elementary School.

Mona Bonaparte delivers an impassioned plea at the April 15 event opposing further expansion of the federal government.

With the future of Sampson County's Western District Park programs up in the air, the Board of Commissioners continue to contemplate what path is best to take to ensure availability to all residents who utilize them.

Sampson Regional Medical Center CEO David Masterson, center, and SRMC trustee Jim Matthews are greeted by Autryville town clerk Diane Autry Wednesday morning, just prior to a scheduled public forum at town hall.

Two Midway High students have been charged in connection with an explosive device that detonated before school last month.

Hope Mills police said a tornado touched down on Interstate 95 near exit 40 Friday evening.

Clinton fire Chief Philip Miller puts his mouth to a walkie talkie and calls dispatchers, but there's no answer.

From left Autryville fire Chief Jackie Faircloth, Capt. Lee Sudia, U.S. Congressman Mike McIntyre, Pittman Horn and Autryville mayor Patricia Williams show off a check the congressman presented to the Fire ...

It clearly stated that she was traveling at the posted speed limit when she ran off the road.