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Charlotte, Greensboro pick mayors as NC local elections held

July 26, 2022 GMT

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — More than a dozen North Carolina municipalities or counties are choosing new elected officials, with some picking party nominees for the fall.

Voting precincts were slated to be open in these areas from 6:30 a.m.

Early voting begins for July 26 city, county elections in NC

July 7, 2022 GMT

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Early in-person voting began on Thursday for the July 26 local elections for positions to serve in over a dozen North Carolina municipalities or counties.

Police: Man killed in crash while fleeing police

March 28, 2022 GMT

SANFORD, N.C. (AP) — A North Carolina man was killed in a crash while fleeing officers early Monday, police said.

Sanford police said officers were called to the Fastee Mart on Lee Avenue around 12:30 a.m.

Police: Pregnant woman wounded in road-rage shooting in NC

March 13, 2022 GMT

SANFORD, N.C. (AP) — Authorities in North Carolina say they are investigating a suspected road-rage shooting that wounded a pregnant woman.

The Raleigh News & Observer reports that the incident occurred Tuesday at a Circle K near Sanford, which is about 50 miles (80 kilometers) southwest of Raleigh.

NC court orders new trial for man convicted in death as teen

March 11, 2022 GMT

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — A North Carolina Supreme Court decision on Friday will allow a man convicted as a teenager in the death of a cab driver more than 25 years ago to have a new trial.

N. Carolina man charged in wife’s death; daughter unharmed

January 6, 2022 GMT

SANFORD, N.C. (AP) — A North Carolina man has been charged in connection with the death of his wife after authorities tracked him to Tennessee, where they found his daughter unharmed after she was reported missing, police said.

Ex-Fort Bragg worker pleads guilty to federal bribery charge

December 8, 2021 GMT

WILMINGTON, N.C. (AP) — A North Carolina man pleaded guilty on Tuesday to taking bribes while working at Fort Bragg, a federal prosecutor said.

Court documents show Edward Wade Crisco of Sanford was a flooring technician assigned to the public works unit at Fort Bragg, according to the U.S.

North Carolina woman killed, sister injured in ATV accident

October 11, 2021 GMT

SANFORD, N.C. (AP) — A woman was killed and her sister injured after the ATV they were riding fell from a railroad bridge they were crossing, the N.C. State Highway Patrol said.

According to a report from the patrol, two women were riding the vehicle on a railroad bridge over U.S.

Defiant Trump defends virus record in 1st post-COVID rally

By JILL COLVIN and JONATHAN LEMIREOctober 12, 2020 GMT

SANFORD, Florida (AP) — Defiant as ever about the coronavirus, President Donald Trump on Monday turned his first campaign rally since contracting COVID-19 into a full-throated defense of his handling of the pandemic that has killed 215,000 Americans, joking that he was healthy enough to plunge into the crowd and give voters “a big fat kiss...

Police: Cash, drugs found after fatal Kentucky plane crash

April 26, 2019 GMT

HENDERSON, Ky. (AP) — Kentucky State Police say a plane that crashed, killing two North Carolina men, was carrying drugs and cash.

Authorities believe the plane was stolen or used without permission from the owner.

Automotive supplier to create 109 jobs in Sanford

Matthew Burns, WRAL.com senior producer/politics editorAugust 29, 2018 GMT

A Japanese company that provides industrial furnaces and heat protection equipment to the automotive and industrial machinery industries plans to open an operation in Lee County, officials said Tuesday.

Two charged in murder of woman found dead outside Central Carolina Hospital

Janine Bowen, WRAL.com editorAugust 25, 2018 GMT

Two people have been charged in connection with the death of a Sanford woman found dead in a parked car outside Central Carolina Hospital on Thursday afternoon.

Sanford police were called to the hospital at 1135 Carthage St.

Primary election lesson for GOP: Don’t cross the president

By LISA MASCARO and MEG KINNARDJune 13, 2018 GMT

WASHINGTON (AP) — Don't cross President Donald Trump.

That's the lesson many Republicans are drawing from Rep...

Lee County High School student arrested after knives, gun, ammunition found in his car

WRAL.comMay 31, 2018 GMT

A Lee County High School student was arrested Wednesday afternoon after knives, a gun and ammunition were found in his car.

A school resource officer spotted two hunting knives in the student's vehicle in the school parking lot at 1708 Nash St.

Sanford woman shoots, kills home intruder

WRAL.comJuly 14, 2017 GMT

The Lee County Sheriff’s Office is investigating after a Sanford woman shot and killed an intruder Thursday morning.

Deputies said a woman at 320 S. Plank Road grabbed her pistol after hearing somebody jiggling her door knob just before 11 a.m.

34-year-old charged with attempted murder in shooting on Sanford porch

WRAL.comDecember 14, 2016 GMT

The Lee County Sheriff’s Office has issued an arrest warrant for the person accused of shooting a Sanford man on his front porch over the weekend.

Zacharus Jovon Foxx, 34, of 5312 Swann Station Road in Sanford is charged with attempted murder, first-degree kidnapping and robbery with a dangerous weapon in connection with the Saturday shooting of Ronald Monta McLaughlin.

Man wanted in Virginia rape arrested in Sanford

WRAL.comNovember 17, 2016 GMT

A man wanted in connection with an October rape in Virginia was arrested Thursday in Lee County.

Roberto Carlos Flores Sibrian, 26, was arrested at a construction site on Horner Boulevard in Sanford and charged with rape and aggravated sexual battery.

AP: Carolinas politicians get payouts from broker

By MICHAEL BIESECKER and MITCH WEISSDecember 17, 2014 GMT

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — Soon after taking office, North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory and U.S. Rep. Mark Sanford of South Carolina accepted six-figure stock payouts from an online mortgage broker accused by regulators of deceiving its customers.