Maydha Devarajan

Good morning. Charles Anthony Pittman, one of the two men who pleaded guilty to setting fire to Fayetteville’s Market House during a protest in May 2020, lost his appeal of his conviction. The Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals issued a ruling on Monday that the case against him stands. We break down the ruling in […]

Good morning. Last summer, the Hope Mills Board of Commissioners created the town’s Homelessness Advisory Committee. But six months later, with the committee set to hold its first-ever meeting on Feb. 11, county commissioners have one problem: three seats are still open, leaving half of the board positions unfilled. The Homelessness Advisory Committee is tasked […]

Good morning. The North Carolina General Assembly’s 2025 legislative session started on Jan. 8 and Cumberland County’s representatives are heading into it with a slate of health topics to tackle, ranging from access to care to water pollution to sexual assault. In today’s lead story, Morgan Casey chatted with several of our local representatives about […]

Good morning. In just a few weeks, Donald Trump will be sworn into office as the 47th president of the United States. And along with a new president comes a new administration and the beginning of a wave of new federal priorities. On Monday, Fayetteville City Council members heard from the city’s lobbyists who advocate […]

Good morning. More than six months ago, the Fayetteville City Council voted to establish a review process for unanticipated events involving city employees that result in the loss of life or serious harm to individuals, including deadly police use-of-force incidents. On Monday, the council stepped back from implementing such a process in an 8-2 vote.  […]

Good morning. During one of my first months living in Fayetteville back in the fall of 2023, longtime local resident (and our senior reporter) Paul Woolverton told me about the spaghetti dinners and Wednesday lunch specials that are signature to our town. But more than simply a good deal, I came to realize spaghetti in […]

Good morning. In breaking news, both the driver who ran a pickup truck over dozens of people in New Orleans and the likely driver of the Cybertruck with a load of bombs that exploded in Las Vegas served in the Army at Fort Liberty. Read more about it here. Meanwhile, the shuttered North Carolina Veterans […]

Good morning. The day Errol Jarman became Spring Lake’s interim police chief in April, his officers told him that the most violent property in town was the Plush Sports Bar, a squat, black-and-gray box with tall tinted windows near the intersection of N.C. 210 and Bragg Boulevard. Today, writes Greg Barnes, the property sits empty, […]

Good morning. Last month, the Fayetteville Salvation Army location announced it would stop providing White Flag shelter services for the city and Cumberland County. A “White Flag” shelter is a heated space for unhoused people to escape extremely cold temperatures. But now, the Salvation Army of the Sandhills could continue to offer White Flag shelter […]