Tabor City News

With criminal investigations and some unsavory allegations swirling around him, state Sen.

A 47-year-old man told the Carolina Journal state Sen. R.C. Soles sexually assaulted him when he was 13.

Submitted by WWAY on 23 October 2009 - 5:18pm. Yam Festival full of sweet potatoes Tabor City is hosting the 39th Annual Yam Festival through the weekend, however you won't find any yams there, only sweet potatoes.

A year or more ago, it became trendy for publishers of daily and weekly newspapers to write columns about the future of newspapers.

Event hosts Joe Garrell and Kathy Foxworth expect the gala, billed as the social event of the year, to be the forerunner of a guild.

British police say a sculptor whose inflatable artwork blew away and killed two people in a 2006 accident has died.

Shallotte police charged the following people and investigated the following incidents during the past week.

Neighbors of North Carolina state Sen. R.C. Soles Jr. made dozens of emergency calls in recent years telling police they heard gunshots, screams and loud arguments coming from his home and law office.

A sheriff says a North Carolina state senator shot one of two intruders at his home and hospital officials say the man is in fair condition.

If there were a "Profiles in Courage" tome for journalists, W. Horace Carter of Tabor City would have to be included.

For Melissa Peterman, life after "Reba" is something to sing about. Hopefully, it'll be somebody else doing the singing.

A few days ago one of the lions of North Carolina newspaper culture died: Horace Carter.

Kristol, 89, was the political writer and publisher called the godfather of neoconservatism.

Horace Carter died Wednesday in Wilmington at the age of 88, having lived a long, full and successful life as a newspaper editor and publisher and businessman.

W. Horace Carter, a North Carolina newspaper publisher whose crusades against the Ku Klux Klan earned a Pulitzer Prize, has died.

A North Carolina newspaper reports that a 76-year-old man who shot and killed a 15-year-old home invasion suspect told investigators he chased the robbers to stop their getaway car.

Tristan Patterson ran as a Democrat in 2008 for the Alamance County Board of Commissioners and didn't get too far.

North Carolina authorities say two men burned after a lit firecracker dropped inside the truck they were riding in initially made up a story about being attacked with the explosive.

Submitted by WWAY on 8 September 2009 - 5:26pm. Questions surround Allen Strickland's money trail We're learning more Tuesday about the finances of 17-year-old Allen Strickland, a Tabor City teenager with ties to State Senator RC Soles.

Though he says there is no conflict of interest, District Attorney Rex Gore has handed off the investigation into the Aug.