The Cumberland County Sheriff’s Office has identified the man who was killed in a shooting late Monday night on Belhaven Road as 32-year-old Jermaine Hailey of Raeford.
The Fayetteville City Council remains divided on whether a high-tech gunshot detection system is a good investment to improve public safety. On Monday night, the council was deadlocked 5-5 on a motion to provide staff members with definitive direction on a $200,000 contract with ShotSpotter to employ the technology.
SPRING LAKE — Dozens of missing town vehicles cited in an audit report released earlier this year were the result of careless and unsystematic recordkeeping, interim Town Manager Joe Durham …
Methodist University held a ribbon-cutting ceremony for the naming of its state-of-the-art nursing building honoring a longtime Fayetteville executive in the savings and loan industry.
SPRING LAKE — The Spring Lake Board of Aldermen is expected to swear in Dysoaneik Spellman as the new police chief during tonight’s meeting. The town in August announced Spellman as the next police chief after a two-month search. He was appointed interim police chief when former chief Troy McDuffie retired for the second time in 2021.
Fayetteville is receiving nearly $40.5 million in federal pandemic aid to help the city recover from the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, and $5 million of that will go to businesses that were burdened by …
Another business day was done at Nathan’s Auto Repair alongside Carvers Falls Road, just off of Ramsey Street in north Fayetteville. But this Sept. 15 afternoon would be different for Nathan and Cindy Page, as this would be their last day in the automotive repair business after 41 years.
The Fayetteville City Council on Monday will revisit the execution of a contract for a gunshot detection system for the Police Department. Reconsideration of the contract is listed under other business on Monday's regular meeting agenda. The council meets at 7 p.m. in the council chambers at City Hall.
The International Folk Festival shifted into high gear Saturday with just about everything that might be expected from a street fair promoting a distinctive cultural theme. The Parade of Nations …
An information session to talk with residents about the three bond packages that will be on the Nov. 8 ballot for Fayetteville residents drew a small crowd Friday. The education and information …
With a taste of cool autumn weather in the air, Fayetteville is taking it to the streets this weekend. Cultural artistry and cuisines from around the world will be celebrated Friday through Sunday during the 44th annual International Folk Festival at Festival Park and throughout downtown.
After 19 months on the job, Darrell Allison was officially installed as the 12th chancellor in the long history of Fayetteville State University on Friday.
Downtown will be all dressed up for the coming Christmas season with 200 new red- and gold-trimmed bows along Person Street and an even taller holiday tree at the Arts Council of Fayetteville-Cumberland County.
The Cumberland Community Foundation on Thursday evening awarded grants and scholarships totaling $684,060. One will enhance Fayetteville State University graduation rates, and the other will help two local nonprofit organizations establish and grow their own endowments.
Two teenagers have been arrested in Durham in connection with the shooting death of a man outside his Fayetteville apartment, according to the Fayetteville Police Department. Timothy Renae Nava, 18, and Nizer Marquise Bennett, 19, each is charged with first-degree murder,
As chairman of the Cumberland County Board of Commissioners, I am fortunate to interact with various groups and entities. My fellow commissioners and I hear their needs, requests and complaints. The …
A motorcycle driver who was fleeing from police at speeds above 125 mph was killed in a collision on North Reilly Road on Thursday, according to the Fayetteville Police Department.
After two years when the parade passed us by, it’s looping back again. The International Folk Festival — and its signature Parade of Nations — will return to downtown Fayetteville this weekend.
The former Spring Lake finance director and accounting technician pleaded guilty Wednesday to embezzling more than $500,000 from the town between 2016 and 2021, the U.S. Attorney’s Office …
With commitments of $450,000 each from the city and the county, a spokesman for a planned museum chronicling local Black culture says he’s ready to start shaping the specifics of the project.
The culinary arts program at Fayetteville Technical Community College is training aspiring chefs and restaurant managers in part by serving up gourmet lunches and dinners to the public, giving students hands-on experience preparing meals.
You never had to ask Todd Lecka about his life. Or wonder if there were regrets along the way. “I have lived a good life,’’ Lecka always would say of his days that took him …
DUBLIN — Proclaiming their company to be a “good neighbor,” executives and technicians of the Chemours Co. met with people who live near its Fayetteville Works site on Tuesday night and said a planned expansion would be good for the economy and not harmful to the environment.
The Fayetteville Police Department is asking for help identifying a man they say robbed a gas station at gunpoint last week. The robbery happened around 1:30 a.m. on Sept. 14 at a gas station on …
Fayetteville Mayor Mitch Colvin met with five members of the City Council on Monday to discuss committee assignments and their role as chairs of those committees. "It was a meeting with the …
