Heidi Perez-moreno

More than 70 people crowded into the Robeson County Partnership for Children's office in Lumberton on Friday to urge the group to allow the public school district to maintain Shining Stars, a pre-K program that serves low-income children and children with... See more

During a visit to North Carolina in September, President Donald Trump said the state is full of 'blood-soaked killing fields.' 'Nobody used to think of North Carolina as a dangerous state, criminally dangerous,' Trump said during a rally in Gastonia. 'It ... See more

When the nonprofit that owned much of the former St. Andrews University campus filed for bankruptcy early this year, its leaders hoped to work with creditors to keep some of the property. But under an agreement inked this month in federal court, the Scotl... See more

North Carolina is taking over Rowland's troubled finances 'to make sure bills get paid and citizens continue to get services they need,' the state treasurer's office said this week. The Local Government Commission, an arm of the treasurer's office that ov... See more

Kelly Jones says he is always thinking about ways to ensure students in Columbus County Schools have the resources they need to succeed. Jones, the district's arts education director, has seen the number of students drop 15% over the last decade as famili... See more