Darryl Ford, chief deputy of the Scotland County Sheriff's Office, talks about staffing shortages at the local jail. (Photo by Tony Wooten) For three months last year, C.C. shared a small cell with ...

Sara Graham's cousin, Sheron Moore, and grandmother, Helen Eller, attend vigil in Lumberton on Monday, August 10, 2026. (Photo by Heidi Perez-Moreno) Kirsten Locklear Oxendine was working her shift as ...

Jillian McPherson-Edge, chair of the Columbus County Board of Elections, suggested during a meeting in May that the county reduce its number of early-voting sites from five to one ahead of the ...

Columbus County Sheriff Bill Rogers won the Republican primary on Tuesday, which almost assuredly means he will serve for the next four years. Rogers, who has been sheriff since 2023, won 42.57% of ...

The Columbus County sheriff resigned on Wednesday for the second time in 10 weeks, bringing to a close one chapter of a tumultuous period that has highlighted racial divisions in this rural county in ...

Nathan Renaudin (left), project manager at Resource Environmental Solutions, explains to Secretary of the N.C. Department of Environmental Quality Reid Wilson (right) how a field off West Bladen ...

East Columbus Jr.-Sr. High School teacher Martin Dee Migue goes over chemistry problems with students Ian Martin and Alejo Pena-Garcia before exams. (Photo by Les High) Martin Dee Migue had been ...

If Richard Sceiford ever dreamed of donning a hard hat, it would have been for a stage role as a construction worker. But the lifelong thespian now spends much of his day in a work zone in downtown ...

Angie Lowery, a citizen of the Lumbee Tribe, stands outside her home in Robeson County. (Andrew Jones/KFF Health News) This story is republished from KFF Health News. Soybean fields surround Angie ...