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In speaking with social activists, there is often a nostalgia for the protest music of the 1960s and 1970s, music that brought together love and protest, a message of revolution and social justice.

It typically took Cam Stubbs two or three Red Bulls, 6-1/2 hours and some loud music pumping on the... A bulldozer clears construction materials used by protesters to make barricades in Taksim Square in Istanbul on Sunday.

Two Sampson County men were arrested on a slew of felony drug charges after a traffic stop by Clinton Police authorities Thursday night yielded heroin, methamphetamine and cocaine, along with various drug paraphernalia and a firearm.

The funeral will be Friday, June 14 at 2 p.m. at Mt. Pleasant Missionary Baptist Church in Clinton.

There is something amusing the more you listen to the protestors in Gezi Park and Taksim Square, and the coverage of these protests.

The Martin Luther King Community Youth Choir Distinct Voices of Praise will be in concert at First Baptist Church, 900 College St., bringing a new style of gospel music to Sampson County on Saturday, June 15 at 6 p.m. There will be a special guest from Kinston to perform also.

ERDOGAN'S FATEFUL MOMENT Mideast Mirror June 10, 2013 Monday Faced with growing domestic challenges Turkey's PM may now have to pursue a more cautious Syrian policy, says Salim Nassar in pan-Arab daily al-Hayat When President Barack Obama wished to address the 325 million inhabitants of the Arab world [in June 2009], he chose Cairo, recalls veteran ... (more)

Bond $5,000; court date was Friday, no disposition of case available. 6/7 - Jerry Thomas Mitchell, 53, 967 Mitchell Loop Road, Roseboro, assault on a female.

Protesters form a human chain to carry watermelons at the Gezi Park of Taksim Square in Istanbul, Monday, June 10, 2013.

Anti-government protests in Turkey have produced a social movement like no other.

In this Sunday, March 17, 2013 file photo an Egyptian activist spray paints a slogan in Arabic that reads "Brotherhood are sheep," next to a logo of the Muslim Brotherhood that reads in Arabic "God is great, thank God, prepare," on the walls of the Brotherhood's headquarters during an anti Muslim Brotherhood protest, in Cairo, Egypt.

I would like to take this opportunity to welcome Elizabeth West as a new member of the Clinton-Sampson Chamber of Commerce team.

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Anti-government demonstrators clashed with police in several Turkish cities overnight and arrest warrants were issued for dozens of people charged with spreading false information on social media about the past week's protests.

No bond set ; court date June 11. 6/3 - William Usher, 50, Pope Road, Clinton, unauthorized use of motor vehicle.

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A Turkish woman takes a photo of graffittis painted by protesrters that mean " Tayyip, son of bitch, resign.

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The 45-year-old is accused of posing as a member of the popular boy band to entice young girls into... Turkish protesters clash with riot police at Istanbul's Taksim Square on Saturday, June 1, 2013.

Residents in the southeastern Virginia town of Smithfield have mixed reactions to the idea that the maker of their famous cured hams may soon be owned by a Chinese company.