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  2. The Robesonian takeover - Wikipedia

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    takeover. Coordinates: 34°38′15″N 78°59′59″W. On February 1, 1988, two armed Tuscarora men, Eddie Hatcher and Timothy Jacobs, took hostages in the offices of The Robesonian newspaper in Lumberton, Robeson County, North Carolina. At the time, Robeson experienced a significant level of drug trafficking and increasing public distrust of ...

  3. List of newspapers in North Carolina - Wikipedia

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    Observer-News-Enterprise, The: Newton: Catawba: 1955 Daily Horizon Publications [3] Richmond County Daily Journal [note 7] Rockingham: Richmond: 1931 Daily Champion Media [32] [42] Robesonian, The: Lumberton: Robeson: 1870 Daily Champion Media [32] Rocky Mount Telegram: Rocky Mount: Edgecombe/ Nash 1995 Daily Adams Publishing Group [3] [20 ...

  4. Robeson County, North Carolina - Wikipedia

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    Robeson's homicide rate grew to four times worse than the national average [151] and the county had the highest numbers of drug-related arrests in the state in 1985 and 1986. [152] In February 1988, two Tuscaroras held the staff of the county newspaper, The Robesonian , hostage to protest local corruption. [ 153 ]

  5. The News & Observer - Wikipedia

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    2688-8807. OCLC number. 46320400. Website. www.newsobserver.com. The News & Observer is an American regional daily newspaper that serves the greater Triangle area based in Raleigh, North Carolina. The paper is the largest in circulation in the state (second is the Charlotte Observer).

  6. Ruth Dial Woods - Wikipedia

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    Ruth Dial. 1938 (age 85–86) Pembroke Township, Robeson County, North Carolina. Nationality (legal) American. Occupation (s) educator, activist. Ruth Dial Woods (born 1938– June 8, 2023) was an American educator and activist. A member of the Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina, she was the first woman to serve as the associate superintendent of ...

  7. The Daily Times (Salisbury, Maryland) - Wikipedia

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    0331-2739. OCLC number. 9958506. Website. delmarvanow.com. The Daily Times is a morning daily English-language (broadsheet) publication based in Salisbury, Maryland, United States, and primarily covers Wicomico, Worcester, and Somerset counties, and regional coverage across the Delmarva Peninsula. It has been a Gannett publication since 2002.

  8. Hubert Stone - Wikipedia

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    Hubert Stone. Walter Hubert Stone (died February 11, 2008) was an American law enforcement officer who served as the Sheriff of Robeson County, North Carolina from 1978 to December 1994. Stone was raised in Robeson County, and in 1953 became a municipal police officer. He served as police chief of Fair Bluff from 1954 to 1957, when he was hired ...

  9. Julian Pierce - Wikipedia

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    Occupation (s) chemist, attorney. Julian Thomas Pierce (January 2, 1946 – March 25/26, 1988) was an American lawyer and Lumbee activist. Born in Hoke County, North Carolina, he became the first person in his family to go to college and worked for several years as a chemist at shipyards in Virginia before obtaining his Juris Doctor degree.