The Field of Honor, a display of American flags arranged in rows on the parade field at the U.S. Army Airborne & Special Operations Museum every fall, was unveiled Monday. Families and friends sponsor flags in honor or memory of loved ones who served in the U.S. military. The 16th annual Field of Honor will be on display through Nov. 12 at the downtown Fayetteville museum.
A Cumberland County sheriff's deputy was hit by a vehicle Monday morning while directing school traffic, according to the Fayetteville Police Department.
The Fayetteville Woodpeckers (60-72) played 15 innings of baseball in Sunday’s regular-season finale after Saturday night’s game against the Charleston RiverDogs was suspended because of stormy weather. Fayetteville closed the season strong, winning both games and securing its first 60-win season since 2019.
Cape Fear Regional Theatre opened its season with “The Play That Goes Wrong,” a show with London origins and an award-winning Broadway pedigree. The production opened Friday night. On Saturday night, it played before a sold-out audience.
In its inaugural season, the Fayetteville Fury won a National Indoor Soccer League championship. Now, the team hopes to duplicate that feat in an outdoor setting. This season, the Fury is fielding an outdoor team — Fury FC — that will play in the United Premier Soccer League in the Premier Division of the Mid-Atlantic Conference.
Fayetteville Fire Chief Mike Hill has been hoping attrition at his perpetually understaffed department would slow down. Not so.
The third annual MilSpo Career Expo, a collaboration of the Center for Economic Empowerment and Development, Women’s Business Center of Fayetteville, and Army Community Service Employment Readiness Program, will be held from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Thursday at Smith Lake Recreation Center, 2922 Smith Lake Road on Fort Liberty.
Not every juvenile in this city is a delinquent. Anyone with any measure of common sense knows that and will tell you so. But you can’t deny that some of our juveniles under the age of 18 are delinquents who have run afoul of the law. That’s why the Fayetteville City Council on Monday is scheduled to consider a youth protection ordinance, otherwise known as a juvenile curfew, to address a recent wave of crimes committed by minors.
In front of the largest crowd of the season at Segra Stadium, the Fayetteville Woodpeckers (58-72, 28-36 second half) erased a pair of one-run deficits before grabbing the winning run in the eighth inning to defeat the Charleston RiverDogs (66-64, 39-23 second half) 5-4 on Friday night.
A second juvenile has been charged with murder in the death of a 19-year-old Hope Mills woman at a gas station on Bragg Boulevard, according to the Fayetteville Police Department.
