February 10, 2012
FAYETTEVILLE — The two people accused in the 2009 slaying of 5-year-old Shaniya Davis pleaded not guilty to charges in separate appearances in Superior Court on Thursday.Mario Andrette McNeil, 31, and Shaniya's mother, Antoniette Davis, 27, are each...
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February 6, 2012
A Harnett Central High School graduate and a former 82nd Airborne soldier were killed Saturday in Daytona Beach, Fla., in what police there called a murder-suicide.
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February 4, 2012
Deputies used a Taser on a woman who wouldn't surrender to them after she cut into a McDonald's drive-through line and then refused to move her car without being served, according to the Cumberland County Sheriff's Office.
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February 2, 2012
A retired statistics professor testified in the ongoing Racial Justice Act hearing Wednesday that a study indicating racial bias in North Carolina's capital murder trials is sound.
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February 1, 2012
FAIRMONT — The cause of a Friday fire that burned a chicken house and killed 21,000 chickens hasn't been determined, authorities said Tuesday.The fire was reported at 6:33 a.m. in one of four chicken houses on the 1500 block of Bailey Road in Fairm...
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FAYETTEVILLE — A researcher testified Tuesday that a Cumberland County prosecutor in Marcus Reymond Robinson's 1994 murder trial was three times more likely to dismiss black potential jurors during jury selection for capital cases than people of oth...
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January 25, 2012
FAYETTEVILLE — The state chapter of the Sierra Club is launching a campaign today to call attention to a controversial method of drilling for natural gas known as fracking.
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January 21, 2012
FAYETTEVILLE — Two Fayetteville parents were charged Friday with starving their 6-month-old child to death and failing to care for his severely emaciated twin brother, according to court records.
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FAYETTEVILLE — A Cumberland County judge Friday tossed out a Fayetteville woman's three drunken driving convictions after lawyers argued the cases had been mishandled.Superior Court Judge Mary Ann Tally ruled that Jennifer Milanese's three driving w...
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January 19, 2012
FAYETTEVILLE — A crippling injury to a North Carolina high school wrestler has increased concern for the safety of wrestlers around the state.
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January 14, 2012
FAYETTEVILLE — Lawyers continued their opening skirmishes in Cumberland County Superior Court on Friday on whether convicted murderer Marcus Reymond Robinson of Fayetteville should be taken off death row because of racial bias in the court system.
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January 13, 2012
A Fort Bragg soldier will be on probation for three years and must serve 90 days in jail for his role in a crash that killed his cousin.Senior Resident Superior Court Judge Gregory Weeks sentenced 27-year-old Dominic Cordale Tearry, of the 1100 block of S...
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NEWTON GROVE -- A 9-year-old boy died during the weekend when a soccer goal tipped over and hit him on the head, according to his family.Juan Junior Escalera, of the 300 block of Three Pines Lane in Wade, died at Betsy Johnson Regional Hospital in Dunn on...
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January 12, 2012
SHANNON -- An N.C. Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services regulator tipped off employees of a Butterball turkey facility that law officers were planning to raid the facility as part of an investigation into animal cruelty, according to a search w...
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January 10, 2012
The flu has made only sporadic appearances in North Carolina this winter but reported cases are on the increase.
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FAYETTEVILLE — A former soldier with Fort Bragg ties was charged Monday with trying to join a terrorist organization.Craig Benedict Baxam, 24, of Laurel, Md., is accused of attempting to provide material support to al Shabaab, an al-Qaida-linked gro...
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A 53-year-old man has pleaded guilty in connection with a fraud case involving the Federal Crop Insurance Program, a news release from U.S. Attorney Thomas G. Walker said.
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January 7, 2012
FAYETTEVILLE — A Fayetteville woman was charged Friday with 37 counts of sexually molesting a 12-year-old and photographing the acts, authorities said.
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January 6, 2012
FAYETTEVILLE — Narissa Nida, an employee at Noelyne Ltd. salon, was on the phone at the front desk late Thursday morning when she heard a loud crash.It was the sound of a Chevrolet Traverse plowing through the entrance of the salon at 3073 Boone Tra...
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LUMBERTON (MCT) — A man trying to force his way into a Maxton mobile home in an apparent home-invasion robbery attempt was shot dead during a struggle, according to the Robeson County Sheriff's Office.Derrick Ray Chavis, 27, of Contour Lane in Maxto...
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January 5, 2012
BUNNLEVEL -- Laverne Bain likes to look at birds through her kitchen window.This time, one was looking back: A big, baldish critter with stubby wings and a long, bowed neck.
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January 4, 2012
A Fort Bragg Green Beret charged with trying to carry explosives onto a plane in Texas told investigators he was unaware that C-4 was in his carry-on bag.
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January 3, 2012
FAYETTEVILLE (MCT) — The Fayetteville woman said she had insured her home through Allstate for 27 years and had never filed a claim.So she was startled when the insurer contacted her several weeks ago to say it wouldn't be renewing her policy.The re...
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December 30, 2011
RAEFORD — Hoke County sheriff's deputies raided the Butterball turkey facility in Shannon on Thursday after learning of secretly recorded video that showed birds being kicked, beaten and thrown.
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December 29, 2011
A 2-year-old girl who was taken by her father after her mother was shot to death has been returned to Cumberland County, authorities said Wednesday.Juliana Laticia Reyes, who was found early Tuesday outside a shopping center in Newport News, Va., is with...
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