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Stokes County Sheriff Mike Marshall said Friday that the issue of whether the King Police Department should be disbanded is "not an issue for me to decide." "That's something for the city to decide," Marshall said.

Some King residents expressed disbelief Wednesday about what they say is the King City Council's secretive move to possibly have the Stokes County Sheriff's Office provide police service in the city - and effectively disband the King Police Department.

Thursday, Jason Young's defense team got its chance to cross-examine a gas station clerk who said she saw him in North Carolina on the night his wife was beaten to death.

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Officials in King are discussing a plan to disband the Police Department and turn over law-enforcement duties to the Stokes County Sheriff's Office.

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