David Culbreth is always on the lookout for technological advances that will save school coaches time from certain aspects of their work so they can devote more of it to their students and families. His latest discovery is the Turf Tank Two, which tackles the arduous task of lining athletic fields for play and turns it into a job for one person and one machine.

The North Carolina General Assembly has penned a 21st-century version of the Hans Christian Andersen classic “The Emperor’s New Clothes.” State Senate Bill 452 has completed the stripping of power from the N.C. High School Athletic Association that began four years ago as a personal crusade by Sen. Tom McInnis, a Republican who represents Cumberland and Moore counties, and his two top helpers, Sens. Todd Johnson, R-Union, and Vickie Sawyer, R-Mecklenberg, as well as the rest of the Republican majority in the state House and Senate.

Incidents of violent juvenile crime in Cumberland County increased 30% between 2021 and 2022, according to data from the N.C. Dept. of Public Safety. Community stakeholders in Cumberland County are …

The Cumberland County Board of Commissioners met Monday morning for a short meeting and approved disaster contracts, funded the county’s juvenile crime prevention, and recognized nonprofit organizations that were recently awarded fiscal recovery funds by the county.

The Alzheimer’s Association invites Cumberland County and area residents to participate in the Walk to End Alzheimer’s on Oct. 28 at Segra Stadium, 460 Hay St.

When a loved one is experiencing a mental health crisis, families often go to their local emergency room for help. This can set off a cascade of events that most people are unaware of and, quite frankly, blindsided by. NC Health News regularly receives emails and calls from families in different stages of this process who are either in shock about what’s happening or angered by the treatment — or lack of treatment — their loved one is receiving.

Eggs Up Grill, a breakfast, brunch and lunch restaurant, will open a location in Hope Mills in December. Located at 2951 Town Center Drive in Traemoor Village Shopping Center, the restaurant is the first Eggs Up Grill planned in the Fayetteville market for franchise partner Stephanie Poole, joined by Brittney and Lauren Poole, according to a news release.

A quiet Starbucks was transformed into a lively community as military spouses and their children gathered Friday afternoon to make new friends and form connections with their military family community.

Here are the scores from Friday night’s slate of high school football scores for Cumberland County Schools.

With just hours left for Congress to come up with a funding deal, government observers say a government shutdown seems likely. This will mean certain non-essential employees will be furloughed, services will cease and more.

A man and woman have been charged with cruelty to animals after seven horses were seized from Witts End Quarter Horses, according to the Cumberland County Sheriff’s Office. The seized horses included a 3-month-old foal that “sustained felony-level injuries,” according to a news release.

The Cumberland Community Foundation celebrated a historic year of giving and grantmaking and honored Mary Lynn McCree Bryan Leadership Award winner Linda Devore at its annual gathering of supporters and volunteers Thursday. 

With cases of Covid-19 on the rise in Cumberland County, Cumberland County School officials continue to take precautions to limit the virus’ spread among students. Cape Fear Valley Health reported 108 COVID-related visits to its children’s emergency department between Aug. 27 and Sept. 16. Before August, the reported cases were “none to two per day.” 

Mixed signals and confusion over enforcement of Fayetteville’s no-camping ordinance have some in the city’s homeless community decrying the lack of response to their plight. 

Fayetteville native Juliana Morehouse-Locklear grew up idolizing the competitors in Miss USA and other traditional beauty pageants. It made sense: her own mother, Lynn Morehouse, earned Miss …

The NCWorks Career Center in Fayetteville and Fayetteville State University’s department of adult learning will sponsor the Military Affiliated Job and Resource Fair, according to a news release.

WHITE LAKE — This is where he would want to be, with a nearing sunset washing the tiny, benign waves ashore and leaving the summer solstice behind. This was home. This was the lake Tim Kinlaw loved all his life.

Most Cumberland County schools rescheduled Friday night’s games to Thursday because of the threat of stormy weather caused by Tropical Storm Ophelia. In addition, two games that remained …

The Community Action Committee for Fort Liberty met for its monthly meeting Wednesday morning. These meetings are aimed to convey information from Fort Liberty leadership to those living and working …

The American Rescue Plan is a $1.9 trillion federal COVID-19 stimulus package approved in 2021. It includes provisions such as tax credits, unemployment benefit extensions and small business grants.  As part of that program, Cumberland County received a total of $65,168,690 between June 2021 and June 22

The 82nd Airborne Division Headquarters will deploy from Fort Liberty to Eastern Europe this fall, the U.S. Department of the Army announced Friday.  

Standout performances by athletes at Cape Fear and Pine Forest earn them Athlete of the Week honors.

To say the Cape Fear High School 2023 women’s tennis season got off to a rocky start goes beyond understatement. For openers, this year is Cape Fear’s turn to have its courts refurbished by Cumberland County Schools, which meant moving home matches to the courts at Arnette Park.

The nearly $800,000 in opioid settlement funding that the Cumberland County commissioners allocated this week will be used over the next two years to combat the county’s opioid crisis. 

On a Friday night in late July, Axe to Grind got a visit from the local police. Zaidoon Al-Zubaidy, co-owner of the Hamlet cafe, was presenting a local band in the back room. When he learned there were officers out front, he joked with his staff that a night out isn’t successful until the cops are called, but still, he was concerned. He had a packed house, and he didn’t want a scene. …