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SPRING LAKE - The town of Spring Lake has scheduled a community forum Tuesday to discuss the recently released in-house audit review committee report.

WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama is awarding Vice President Joe Biden the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

A juvenile petition has been filed in connection with a video depicting a Douglas Byrd Middle School student attacking another student on Tuesday, a spokesman for the Cumberland County Sheriff's Office said.

Joe Dyer knew this church, and just about everybody who worshipped here for more than 60 years.

Lies and life insurance policies factored into an investigation into a woman's murder in November, culminating in the arrest of two men by Fayetteville police Thursday.

ST. PAULS - Sanderson Farms has started production at its new $155 million chicken processing plant and wastewater treatment facility in Robeson County.

Allison Elrod, a freshman at Auburn University, where she is studying interior design, has been named to the Dean's List for the Fall 2016 semester. Allison is a graduate of Village Christian Academy. Her parents are Ron and Kittie Elrod.

The Cumberland County Board of Elections reported Thursday a handful of voting irregularities that will require further investigation.

By Paul Woolverton

The Fayetteville Observer filed a court motion Thursday seeking to have a judge dissolve or at least modify a gag order in the case involving Mike Lallier, a prominent car dealer and former chairman of the Fayetteville Public Works Commission.