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ROBESON COUNTY, N.C. (WBTW) — A murder-suicide Friday afternoon claimed the lives of two people outside of Lumberton, the Robeson County Sheriff’s Office said. Deputies responded to the 100 ...
Aug. 11—MAXTON — Investigators with the Robeson County Sheriff's Office are said to be investigating the death of a 38-year-old Pembroke woman who apparently was murdered early Friday morning.
Jul. 28—ROBESON COUNTY — The driver of a motor vehicle died Wednesday night after veering off the road and striking a tree, according to the N.C. State Highway Patrol. The crash took place at ...
In February 1988, two Tuscaroras held the staff of the county newspaper, The Robesonian, hostage to protest local corruption. [153] In March, Lumbee judicial candidate Julian Pierce was murdered under disputed circumstances, and the father of basketball player Michael Jordan was murdered in Robeson in 1993. [154]
The newspaper attracted national attention when on February 1, 1988, when two Native Americans entered the newspaper's offices armed [8] and took 20 hostages. [9] The stand-off lasted ten hours; Timothy Jacobs and Eddie Hatcher [10] hoped to attract attention to the plight of American Indians, and later, after their arrest, had a local civil rights attorney deliver a letter to Mikhail ...
Robeson County courthouse in Lumberton, 1978. 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).
Mar. 16—LUMBERTON — A 44-year-old Maryland woman lost her life in a three-vehicle collision Tuesday on Interstate 95 outside of Rowland, according to the North Carolina State Highway Patrol.
The inmate was arrested on a charge of driving while intoxicated and a parole violation from an earlier case, according to Newburyport News. The cause of death was hanging, using a "anti-suicide" bedsheet. The inmate was on suicide watch, according to Newburyport News. Jail or Agency: Rockingham County Department of Corrections; State: New ...