Children waited months—sometimes more than a year—for assessments they were legally entitled to receive much sooner, according to the complaint filed in federal court.
Sarah Nagem
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Judge Dismisses Lawsuit in Fayetteville Police Shooting of Jada Johnson
View This Email In Your Browser Good morning. A federal judge dismissed a civil rights lawsuit filed by the family of Jada Johnson, who was shot and killed by a Fayetteville police officer in 2022 while experiencing a mental health crisis. U.S. District Court Judge James C. Dever III ruled that officers did not use […]
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New Fayetteville City Council Members Will Be Sworn In Today
View This Email In Your Browser Good morning. Three new members of the Fayetteville City Council will be sworn in at 6 p.m. today at the Seabrook Auditorium on Fayetteville State University’s campus. Stephon Ferguson (District 1), Antonio Jones (District 3), and Shaun McMillan (District 8) won seats on the council in the November election. […]
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Fayetteville’s I-295 Outer Loop is Complete
The Fayetteville Outer Loop was officially declared complete on Tuesday. The ceremony marked the end of a 26-year construction project.
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How FSU Is Preparing Educators for the AI Future
View This Email In Your Browser On an October day inside Fayetteville State University’s Science and Technology Building, the future of North Carolina’s classrooms took shape: a circle of teachers, laptops open, wrestling with prompts, prototypes, and the possibilities of artificial intelligence. It marked the launch of the AI Literacy Bootcamp, a first-of-its-kind collaboration between Fayetteville […]
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How Rural N.C. Lowered Overdose Deaths—But Will Struggle to Keep Pace
After years of fighting rising rates of overdoses, communities have been reversing the trend.
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Cumberland County Schools Teachers and Staff Will Get Pay Raise
View This Email In Your Browser Good morning. Cumberland County Schools employees will see one of the largest pay bumps in the region after the Board of Education approved a major increase to local salary supplements last week. North Carolina pays teachers’ salaries, but counties offer additional money to recruit and retain workers. The Cumberland […]
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Fayetteville leaders to discuss contract for long-awaited downtown tower
View This Email In Your Browser Good morning. The Fayetteville City Council will hold a public hearing today to consider a proposal from a Florida-based developer to revive long-stalled plans for a tower atop the Hay Street parking deck. The downtown plan calls for a seven-story apartment building with 124 units and a six-story hotel with 119 […]
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A Genius Among Us
Nabarun Dasgupta, a senior scientist at UNC-Chapel Hill and expert on fatal drug overdoses, was awarded a 2025 MacArthur Fellowship. The so-called “genius grant” comes with an $800,000 prize.
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Cancer risks and explosion hazards detected near Cliffdale Landfill
View This Email In Your Browser Good morning. At a tense community meeting, Fayetteville residents learned that hazardous gases detected near the Cliffdale Landfill have exceeded North Carolina’s cancer risk thresholds for indoor air—and may pose an even more immediate threat of explosion. State investigators at the Oct. 22 meeting shared early results from soil-gas […]
