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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 ...
Lumberton, NC, in Robeson County, is dealing with flash flooding from Tropical Storm Debby. This file photo of downtown Lumberton was taken during Hurricane Matthew in 2016.
Flood waters wash over Guy Ford Road bridge on the Watauga River as Hurricane Helene approaches in the North Carolina mountains, in Sugar Grove, North Carolina, U.S. September 26, 2024.
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 (/ ˈ r ɒ b ɪ s ə n / 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 .
Nov. 24—LUMBERTON — Almost 19 miles of roadway in Robeson County will be milled and resurfaced, thanks to a $4.5 million contract awarded this week. Barnhill Contracting Co. of Rocky Mount ...
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).
Aug. 25—LUMBERTON — The seven days between Aug. 17 and Monday was the second-deadliest period of the COVID-19 pandemic in Robeson County, as 16 virus-related deaths were reported by the local ...