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Daily Dispatch/ASHLEY STEVEN AYSCUE Downtown Development Commission director Phil Lakernick takes a swing at knocking a hole in a wal as Mayor Pro-Tem Lonnie Davis waits his turn at a wall breaking for phase one of the Hope VI Main Street Revitalization Project Thursday morning in Downtown Henderson.

The more than 40 distributors who attended the 14th annual meeting of the Airco Distributor Association , held in Memphis, Tennessee, in early October, left the meeting with a renewed enthusiasm and many new ideas, according to Mark Falconer, ADA co-chairman and president of Minneapolis Oxygen Company.

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George Stroumboulopoulos came to the attention of the nation's music fans on MuchMusic, but he got his start in radio.

25 6:31 pm Tweet This! http://mync.com/site/43595/ Winning a Third Place ribbon in the 2008 N.C. State Fair for his Chocolate Pound Cake left Cleveland resident Dan West beside himself with excitment.

An alternative to Halloween is scheduled from 5 till 8 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 31, at Watkins Chapel Baptist Church at highways 39 and 231 in the Emit community.

An alleged armed robbery call turned into a drug bust Wednesday evening after investigators discovered 65 grams of marijuana at the victim's residence on North Spring Branch Road.

The crowd will start gathering early this Saturday morning in downtown Harrells for a day of family fun and entertainment, as well as lots to eat.

Interstate 95 remained closed Tuesday morning after an overnight crash just south of Dunn in Harnett County.

One night, 32 galleries, 39 projects Artist Jesse Walker uses movement, sound and space in his Nocturne piece By ELISSA BARNARD Arts Reporter Sat.

Joey Harris, 31, of Fayetteville, and his wife Katrina Harris, 29, stop at the Murphy House stand for some fried treats - their first stop at the N.C. State Fair on opening day.

An employee with the N.C. Department of Transportation in Harnett County has been charged with cyberstalking after being taken into custody Tuesday on outstanding warrants leveled in Wayne County.

The following driving while impaired arrests were reported by the State Highway Patrol: Corey Brandon Taylor, 21, 1536 British Road, Kinston, Oct.

5 10:52 pm Tweet This! http://mync.com/site/42733/ Dunn, N.C. Officials in the town of Dunn are looking to find a way to keep kids safe on the streets as well as in cyberspace.

Sampson County has received a grant that will establish a medical facility in the northern end of the county to not only aid in job creation, but provide the kind of quality rural health care that local officials said is necessary for small communities to attract - and keep - companies and citizens.

I recently read that "Folsom Jim" Phillips passed away at the age of 99. He grew up near Folsom and, according to the report I read, "his own life was as colorful as the Gold Rush tales he spun for anyone who would listen." He was also instrumental in restoring what is now the Folsom History museum on Sutter Street.

The Rowan County Department of Environmental Management is responsible for operating the Rowan County Landfill, eight recycling/solid waste convenience centers, the Rowan County Recycling and Processing Center and the community recycling education program.

County music star Toby Keith has been voted songwriter/artist of the decade by the Nashville Songwriters Association International.

The Budget, a 119-year-old Amish weekly, dropped its plans to go online because of readers' opposition.

A consultant brought to Salisbury to offer advice concerning a possible downtown event center addressed members of the board of directors of The Blanche & Julian Robertson Family Foundation on Thursday.