Spring Lake News

Beginning July 1, sheriff's deputies will no longer be stationed in the town of Spring Lake full-time. Spring Lake aldermen voted Monday to fund the town's police department in the coming year, rather than pay the Sheriff's Department nearly $1.2 million to patrol the town full-time. The Cumberland County Sheriff's Department has placed four ...

SPRING LAKE Embattled Town Manager Larry Faison stepped down Monday night after the Board of Aldermen voted to ask for his resignation.

A man wanted in the murder of a soldier who had recently returned from Afghanistan has been extradited to North Carolina.

Published: Tuesday, June 16, 2009 at 1:32 p.m. Last Modified: Tuesday, June 16, 2009 at 1:32 p.m. The City of Thomasville has announced the hiring of a new police chief.

Few can remember when times were this difficult in the General Assembly. The state's annual revenues have taken a nosedive since Gov.

The interim chief of an eastern North Carolina town's police department says the best way to recover from the scandal of two officers being indicted may be to close the department and start over.

North Carolina officials are coaching local counterparts on how to tap some of the millions available to save energy and create jobs under the federal stimulus package.

Cumberland County authorities arrested a man in connection with a soldier's March 29 death.

Soldiers at Fort Bragg are deployed to some of the most dangerous places in the world to defend America, but the Army won't allow the troops to go to more than 70 locations in central North Carolina because they're considered unsafe.

Concerned residents of Spring Lake got together Thursday evening to discuss their ailing police department which is being probed by the state bureau of investigation.

A citizens group that formed after a North Carolina town's police chief resigned and two officers were arrested is meeting with the department's new leader.

An alleged murder-for-hire plot has been uncovered in Spring Lake involving an officer from the town's police department.

Jittery residents of the small town of Spring Lake are waiting to see whether more charges will be brought in an investigation of police corruption.

Jittery residents of this small North Carolina town are waiting to see whether more charges will be brought in an investigation of police corruption and asking why town leaders didn't deal with problems years earlier.

Something good happened in Spring Lake Town Hall on May 18. It's been a while since we've been able to report that.

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Town officials on Monday picked former Chapel Hill police chief Gregg Jarvies to head the beleaguered Spring Lake Police Department while they search for a full-time chief.

Gentry Group is turning an office and industrial park in Spring Lake into office, warehouse and flex space supporting civilian defense contractors near Fort Bragg.

The Town of Spring Lake is considering hiring a consultant or a retired police chief to come in and assess the town's police department, according to Spring Lake Mayor Ethel T. Clark.

Residents of Spring Lake came out to a town meeting Monday to ask about the arrests of two police officers and the resignation of the chief.