Faison News Archives

On the heels of the Rural America Listening Tour stop in Hamlet, led by Secretary of Education Arne Duncan and Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack, North Carolina residents are given insight into the promising future of rural education.

Sampson County commissioner Malachi Faison, right, inquires about animal control issues during a discussion at the board's meeting Tuesday night.

The U.S. Army Corp of Engineers says research conducted by the U.S. Navy may be insufficient to qualify two North Carolina sites selected as a location for a proposed practice landing field.

Area officials oppose North Carolina drivers having to pay a toll for driving to Virginia, which could happen if a proposed highway and bridge widening project is approved.

The probation department was the focus of an internal investigation after two probationers were charged with killing Eve Carson, the student body president at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

An administrative law judge has ordered that two North Carolina probation officials demoted last year regain their supervisory jobs with back pay.

Two officials who were demoted last year during a shake-up in the state's probation system have been reinstated to supervisory positions, WRAL News has learned.

Area county commissioners attended several days of workshops and seminars last week on building sustainable, "green" local government during the 102nd North Carolina Association of County Commissioners annual conference in Hickory.

Two of four teenagers involved in a Saturday night wreck on Harmony Church Road remain hospitalized this morning, one in stable condition the other critical.