Raeford News

By Earl Vaughan Jr. Fayetteville Observer RAEFORD - Leon Hope has resigned as head football coach at Hoke County High School after two seasons.

Jaydin Lynne Maurer was born Sept. 23, 2009, at Raeford, N.C., to Christopher Stephen and Vicki Lynne Maurer, Raeford, N.C. She weighed 6 pounds, 12 ounces, and was 21 1/2 inches long.

Employees of a Raeford home health care company say they haven't been paid in more than a month, and the state Department of Labor has launched an investigation into nine wage complaints.

Two Fayetteville school buses were involved in separate crashes Thursday morning.

Published: Thursday, October 15, 2009 at 1:13 p.m. Last Modified: Thursday, October 15, 2009 at 1:13 p.m. The Davidson County Public Library received three first-place Best of Show Awards at the Biennial N.C. Library Association Conference held at the Greenville Convention Center.

Scotland County Farm Bureau Insurance announced it recently added a new agent a ' Sandra Bullard-Lee. A native of Raeford, Bullard-Lee worked for Abbot Laboratories for years, until they closed.

Marcia Magiera, the Realtor selling the long-dormant House of Raeford property in Athens, said Monday a deal should be finalized on a new buyer within a week.

Jim Walker of the Pee Dee Antique Club talks to Congressman Larry Kissell about a tractor that was on display.

A state panel is recommending that health-care providers in Moore and Cumberland counties be allowed to provide medical services in neighboring Hoke County.

A Midway High student is still listed in critical condition after a collision last week sent her to UNC Hospitals in Chapel Hill.

Trio charged with break-ins Three were charged with breaking into a vehicle and a building, both on Blakely Road, according to a sheriff's report.

Several years ago a group of ladies living in the Deercroft community in Wagram got together and began quilting.

The attorney representing a Southern Pines man in a civil suit claiming that District Attorney Maureen Krueger's office destroyed evidence related to a 2008 arrest failed to appear in court Friday.

RAEFORD Rescue personnel and law enforcement officers from Hoke, Robeson and Cumberland counties continued a search Monday night to recover the body of a 45-year-old man who appears to have drowned in a private pond near Hobson Road, off U.S. 401 near Raeford.

Authorities are continuing their search for a popular Raeford barber who is feared drowned.

Hoke County Sheriff Hubert Peterkin says his deputies have arrested a Raeford man on rape charges.

RAEFORD, NC, August 26, 2009 /Cambridge Who's Who/ --Tracy Joe Dice, Mobile Training Cadre & Contractor for Eagan, McAllister Associates, Inc.

A Raeford man charged with running down five people -- killing one of them -- in a drive from Fayetteville to Fuquay-Varina in April 2004 has been found incompetent to stand trial.

Two people were arrested in the parking lot of the Kangaroo convenience store in Vass Thursday on charges of trafficking in controlled prescription pills.

Three individuals were arrested Tuesday at a beauty salon on U.S. 1 South and almost 20 pounds of marijuana seized by law enforcement officials.