Cumberland County News

Beginning July 1, sheriff's deputies will no longer be stationed in the town of Spring Lake full-time. Spring Lake aldermen voted Monday to fund the town's police department in the coming year, rather than pay the Sheriff's Department nearly $1.2 million to patrol the town full-time. The Cumberland County Sheriff's Department has placed four ...

A fire at Douglas Byrd Middle School was reported Wednesday night, causing major damage to the gymnasium and cafeteria.

A man sheriff's deputies are calling the "Cigarette Bandit" will appear in a North Carolina court to face felony larceny charges for taking 26 cartons of cigarettes that he stuffed down his pants.

Firefighters battled a blaze late Wednesday at Douglas Byrd Middle School at 1616 Ireland Drive in Fayetteville, officials say.

Elected leaders of a North Carolina town whose police department is in disarray say they won't continue to pay the local sheriff for increased patrols.

Kenneth Andre Kirk's mother knew just what to do when she saw her son's picture on the news.

Doctors at UNC Hospitals are fighting to stop an infection caused by a common bacteria found in lakes before it spreads through the body of a 14-year-old Cumberland County boy.

At least one person is dead after an ammonia leak at a poultry plant in Robeson County.

The Cumberland County Sheriff's Office is investigating a double shooting that killed one man and injured another.

Arson Investigators are trying to determine what chemicals were involved with prank that destroyed a mailbox in Cumberland County.

A Cumberland County grand jury indicted two Camp Lejeune Marines charged in the brutal slaying of an Army nurse whose dismembered, burned body was found in a shallow grave in Sneads Ferry last summer.

A Robeson County sheriff's deputy has been charged with assaulting his girlfriend.

Gov. Bev Perdue on June 19 signed Senate Bill 754, enabling North Carolina schools to use interest-free bonds for school construction, repair and renovation as part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act .

A Marine accused of killing his estranged wife, a former Dubuquer, was indicted by a North Carolina grand jury Monday.

Since the beginning of 2008, at least nine teachers or school employees in central North Carolina have been accused of sexual misconduct with students.

Two Camp Lejeune Marines have been indicted in the killing of an Army nurse whose burned and dismembered remains were found in a shallow North Carolina grave last summer.Cumberland County officials said Friday a grand jury indicted Cpl.

Cumberland County Playhouse's Southern Regional Premiere of Hairspray, the bright, funny, family-friendly, multicultural '60s musical that inspired the film starring John Travolta and Queen Latifah opens on June 25.

Few can remember when times were this difficult in the General Assembly. The state's annual revenues have taken a nosedive since Gov.

It was announced today that Iron Horse Auction Company, Inc. has been chosen to conduct a commercial real estate auction in Stedman, NC, Cumberland County.

An eastern North Carolina town must fire all of its police officers and rebuild the department from scratch in order to recover from the scandal of two officers being indicted, the town's interim police chief says.