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The Robesonian. 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 ...
Website. robesonian.com. The Robesonian is a newspaper published in Lumberton, North Carolina, Tuesday through Friday afternoon and Saturday and Sunday morning. [3] The Robesonian traces its heritage back to 1870, [4] when it was established by W.S. McDiamid, a Baptist preacher. [5] The Robesonian was previously owned by Heartland Publications ...
Malcolm Gray McLeod (May 29, 1914 – June 3, 1987) was an American law enforcement officer who served as the Sheriff of Robeson County, North Carolina from 1950 to 1978. . Born in Lumberton, he worked as a service station operator and a grocery salesman before deciding to run for the office of sheriff in 1950, pledging to modernize the office and crack down on bootleg
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 colonel who ...
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.
Democratic. Spouse. Barbara Brayboy. Horace Locklear (November 27, 1942 – May 5, 2024) was an American politician and attorney who served in the North Carolina House of Representatives from 1977 until 1983. A member of the Lumbee tribe, he was the first Native American to practice law in North Carolina .
Jun. 4—The City of Lumberton hosted the Dixie Youth World Series at the Dr. Raymond B. Pennington Complex in both 2018 and 2019. This summer, the city will host once again. The 2022 Dixie Youth ...
Carroll was born in San Francisco, California. [1] He married Polly Holcolin Burgess in December 1941 [3] and had two sons, Thomas III and Bruce. [2] He died from a heart attack in 1964 and was buried at Arlington National Cemetery. [2] His widow Polly died in 1993. [9]