Richmond County News

Another textile company plans to expand its Richmond County operations, offering some measure of economic relief for a region with a jobless rate above the state average.

It sounds more like a movie than real life: a juvenile court officer and a judge steal babies and sell them all over the country.

Deputies with the Richmond County Sheriffa s Office arrested two men on drug charges after entering their home to serve a tax warrant on Nov.

A former Richmond County resident spoke to over 20 members of the Chamber of Commerce at a planning conference on Tuesday to re-energize and plan for the upcoming 2010 calendar year.

Vonda Scott works in the sewing room of Therafirm and sews a lace piece to the top of compression stockings.

Falling temperatures are driving more homeless to find shelter in Richmond County.

Bryan Stewart Richmond County Daily Journal Two Hamlet men were apprehended on Nov.

While the prevalence of diabetes in Richmond County has increased, the mortality rate has decreased slightly, but is still 31 percent higher than the state average, according to statistics released by FirstHealth.

Columbus County authorities are investigating a suspicious fire that happened early Sunday morning.

A North Carolina-based yarn company is expanding and plans to add 135 jobs over the next three years.

A company that makes fiber-based yarns for the textile industry plans to expand in Richmond County, officials said Monday.

Three years ago Robert Lee founded the Richmond County Landlorda s Association with just 22 members.

Lauren Alter, M.D., used to think that she would spend her life as a musician. She even left college to pursue a career in music, eventually playing viola for seven years with the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra.

During Monday night's Richmond County Board of Commissioners meeting, commissioners came face to face with a harsh reality.

Thursdaya s release of North Carolina School Report Cards shows many of the individual schools of the Richmond County School system making progress in instruction and student performance, even as some long-term challenges continue to persist.

Rohanen Primary third grade teacher Haley Hall tabulates the votes of the third grade mock Rockingham mayoral election the school held Friday morning.

Monday nighta s Richmond County Board of Commissioners meeting has a busy agenda including discussions on leash laws, the Ellerbe wastewater regionalization project and inland ports.

A big part of my job as Editor of the Daily Journal is to act as gatekeeper of the letters to the editor.

The Humane Society of Richmond County animal shelter passed its annual state inspection on Friday.

Local law enforcement agencies say they will maintain use of non-lethal Taser guns despite a warning released from the Arizona-based stun gun company on Oct.