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Robeson County Sheriff Burnis Wilkins said at a news conference the three men were shot around 9:30 a.m. in a community outside of Maxton, which is about 120 miles (190 kilometers) southeast of ...
The shooting suspect, police said in a news release, had fled the scene by the time officers arrived. Inside the restaurant, officers found an 18-year-old Waffle House employee, later identified ...
Robeson County courthouse in Lumberton, 1948. In the 1980s Robeson County was among the poorest counties in the state of North Carolina, United States.It had a triracial population of about 101,000 people of whom 26 percent were black, 37 percent were white, and 37 percent were Native American (mostly members of the Tuscarora and Lumbee tribes).
Joseph Pierre, Fayetteville Observer. August 23, 2024 at 5:11 AM. A man, accused of a 2023 murder, crashed into a vehicle, killing one person and injuring another during a high-speed chase on ...
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.
Website. www.robesoncountync.gov. Robeson County (/ ˈrɒbɪsən / ROB-ih-sun) [ 1 ] is a county in the southern part of the U.S. state of North Carolina and is its largest county by land area. Its county seat and largest community is Lumberton. The county was formed in 1787 from part of Bladen County and named in honor of Thomas Robeson, a ...
March 29, 2009 (10:00 AM - 10:05 AM.) The Carthage nursing home shooting was a mass shooting that occurred on March 29, 2009, when a gunman opened fire at Pinelake Health and Rehabilitation, a 120-bed nursing home in Carthage, North Carolina, United States. [1] The shooter, 45-year-old Robert Kenneth Stewart, killed eight people, including a ...
Banditry in Robeson County emerged during the later stages of the American Civil War, as free persons of color hid in local swamps to avoid being conscripted for labor to support the war effort and stole food to survive. In 1864 and 1865 local Confederate officials came into conflict with the prominent Lumbee Lowry family, and two of the former ...