Rockingham News

As anyone can tell by brown lawns in Richmond County, the soil is dry even though one drought index has the county in a normal zone.

Six incumbents and one political newcomer filed to run for office in municipal elections Monday.

Greg D. Sanders, 44, 138 Jordyn Lane, Marston, was shot dead with a blast from a shotgun Friday, said Capt.

Richmond County is looking to sell a 40,000-square-foot industrial building on Enterprise Drive in Rockingham.

Peter Williams/Daily Journal Cliff Gaumond trades some paint with the wall between turns one and two.

The Leak Street Alumni Association would like to replace S.O.S. with the 21st Century Program formerly administered by the Rockingham Housing Authority, should state funding for S.O.S. indeed be pulled.

Tom MacCallum Richmond County Daily Journal Two suspects have been arrested on charges they abducted two children from a home in East Rockingham, said Capt.

The 2009 municipal filing period will begin officially on July 6, at 8 a.m. at the Richmond County Board of Elections office.

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Bryan Lee, firefighter at East Rockingham Fire Department, showers Cub Scouts Friday morning with a fire hose at the end of a program on fire safety for the Central N.C. Council Cub Scout Camp being held at the N.C. National Guard Armory in Rockingham.

The First Baptist Church of Rockingham is pleased to announce the appointment of a new Senior Pastor, Dr.

A Rockingham teenager has been arrested in connection with the rape of a child, police said.

Richmond County native John Robbins Wester will take the post as the 115th president of the North Carolina Bar Association Saturday in a ceremony at the 111th Annual Meeting of the NCBA at the Grove Park Inn in Asheville.

Burning is illegal in Rockingham, and it can be dangerous. Rockingham Police Department said a 44-year-old man set fire to trash on Armstead Street, Rockingham.

Charles R. Jenkins, a professor and retired provost at the University of North Carolina at Pembroke, will become the school's interim chancellor July 1. Jenkins, appointed today by UNC President Erskine Bowles, succeeds Allen Meadors, who announced last week that he was leaving to become president of the University of Central Arkansas, his alma ...

Tom MacCallum Richmond County Daily Journal Five people have been arrested in four cases by the Richmond County Sheriffa s Office on charges they have been involved with illegal drugs, Capt.

KFC Associate Manager Melinda Arnette and General Manager Vickie Thompson are pictured with Scottish Food Systemsa President Tom Broome.

An arrest has been made in connection with the on-going investigation of the Rockingham Housing Authority.

Published: Thursday, June 18, 2009 at 6:57 p.m. Last Modified: Thursday, June 18, 2009 at 6:57 p.m. RALEIGH People who say they smoke marijuana to relieve chronic pain asked House members Thursday to legalize its possession and cultivation for medicinal use, but a bill discussed in committee isn't likely to be considered again this year.

The Richmond County Historical Society has turned over ita s stake in the old Rockingham train depot to the City of Rockingham.