Sanford News

The weekend’s off-and-on wet dampened attendance at the festival that is designed to promote North Carolina agriculture, food, wine and, for the first time this year, beer.

Prosecutors had wanted to play the most relevant clips from the video tape, but McNeill overrode the advice of his attorneys and demanded jurors hear the entire tape.

On May 8, Moore County Sheriff's investigators arrested a Sanford man and charged him in connection wtih two February break-ins that occurred in Moore County.

Lee County residents can participate in the largest food drive in the country this Saturday.

A 5-year-old Fayetteville girl was sexually assaulted before she was killed more than three years ago, a medical examiner testified Wednesday.

North Carolina's textile industry received a boost this week as Maersk Line announced plans to add port calls in Panama and Costa Rica to its weekly South Atlantic Express from the Port of Wilmington .

Jurors in the Mario McNeill trial looked visibly uncomfortable Tuesday as they were shown video of crime scene investigators recovering the body of 5-year-old Shaniya Davis.

Sanford Locklear, revaluation coordinator with the Robeson County Tax Office, has successfully completed the 2012-13 County Administration Course offered by the School of Government at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

"It makes you feel young, good inside; you can be a kid for a day," said Sheila Vannoy of Spring Lake, as she waited on a bench at Middle and Broad streets Saturday for the sights and sounds of mini-motorcars, beating drums, and colorful clowns with big-noses and oversized shoes.

MIDWAY BAPTIST CHURCH, 282 Midway Road, Rockingham, will have a Yard Sale and Auction 8 a.m. on Saturday, May 4. Chicken and dumpling plates will be sold for $6 each.

Thursday, the jury deciding Mario McNeill's guilt or innocence watched surveillance video from a hotel where prosecutors say he took 5-year-old Shaniya Davis to rape her before killing her.

The real estate investor Carolyn Grant is due at a sentencing hearing Friday morning, following a years-long saga in which she was sued by clients, shut down by the state government and finally, in November, charged by federal prosecutors.

Moore County Department of Social Services officials are asking the public to put their money, or lack of it, where their mouth is.

Share the Food Foundation is proud to announce that the Foundation raised $150,000 Saturday night at its Gala Benefit Dinner held at the Weathervane Restaurant in Chapel Hill.

Jim and Carolyn Taggart of Sanford, NC celebrated their 70th Wedding Anniversary with a family party in the Governor's Room at Carolina Trace Country Club.

DEAR ABBY: I am a 13-year-old girl and my parents won't let me date. I believe I am mature for my age and won't do anything foolish.

When is a bench more than a bench? When it has a barcode that teaches visitors about North Carolina history.

Central Carolina Community College in Sanford told the three hosts of "The Rant" they would no longer be welcome to use campus facilities to record their show , which aired on the college's FM radio station, WDCC.

Engineer/producer John Davenport is building a new studio, JD Productions in Sanford, N.C., for which API is building a custom 32-channel API Legacy Plus console with Vision automation.

Mobile311, LLC, a software design and development company, is relocating its headquarters from Cary, NC to Sanford, NC.