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3 weeks ago | 
wral.com | Derek Medlin |David Crabtree |Keith Baker
Pope Francis delivers Mass to more than 20,000 at Madison Square GardenPope Francis in 2015 drew huge crowds across Washington D.C., Philadelphia and New York City during his six-day trip to the United States. Joe and Yvette Zaninni, of Chapel Hill, were among local Catholics who travel north for the weekend. The Zaninnis, who have been married 47 years and work with young married couples at St. Thomas More Catholic Church, traveled to Philadelphia for the World Meeting of Families.
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Jan 14, 2025 | 
sanfordherald.com | Derek Medlin
CAROLINA TRACE — FirstHealth of the Carolinas recently recognized the Carolina Trace Fire Department for its completion of training as part of the system’s medical first responder program. Carolina Trace firefighters underwent several weeks of training to align their efforts with protocols that guide medical care in the FirstHealth EMS System. FirstHealth has provided EMS services in Lee County for the last three years and also provides EMS services in Chatham, Montgomery and Richmond counties.
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Dec 10, 2024 | 
sanfordherald.com | Derek Medlin
FirstHealth Fitness is helping kick off 2025 with a bang with the inaugural Sanford Resolution Run & FirstHealth Fitness Fest 5K. Scheduled for 9 a.m. Saturday, Jan. 11, 2025, the resolution run is a partnership between FirstHealth Fitness, Visit Sanford NC and Downtown Sanford, Inc. “We are thrilled to be hosting our first resolution run in downtown Sanford,” FirstHealth Fitness — Sanford facility director Rance Bryant said.
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Mar 26, 2024 | 
sanfordherald.com | Derek Medlin
PITTSBORO — FirstHealth Family Medicine – Chatham is moving to a new location and is accepting new patients. Beginning April 1, Claire Repine, D.O. and Roger Diaz, PA-C, will see patients at Northwood Landing at 40 Ramseur Road, Suite 102 in Pittsboro. Dan Barnes, D.O. and president of FirstHealth Physician Group, said the new clinic space will allow FirstHealth to better serve the people of Pittsboro and Chatham County.
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Sep 27, 2023 | 
sanfordherald.com | Derek Medlin
PITTSBORO — FirstHealth of the Carolinas is welcoming another new team member to our family medicine staff in Chatham County. Roger Diaz, PA-C, is an experienced provider joining James Liffrig, M.D., and Claire Repine, D.O., to continue providing exceptional care to patients of all ages in Chatham County and neighboring communities. Diaz has 14 years of patient care experience and serves in the North Carolina Army National Guard as a lieutenant colonel.
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Aug 25, 2023 | 
wral.com | Derek Medlin
A 19-year-old Lumberton man was charged late Tuesday in the fatal shooting death of a Connecticut man who was working at the Robeson County fair. Terrence Devon Paige is charged with first-degree murder and attempted robbery with a dangerous weapon. According to police, Paige shot and killed 53-year-old Edward M. Reiner, of New Milford, Conn., Monday night after a fight behind a convenience store across the street from the fair.
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Aug 25, 2023 | 
wral.com | Jodi Leese Glusco |Derek Medlin
Snowflakes flew across parts of the northern Triangle early Tuesday, but totals weren't enough to create any major problems on the roadways. A band of precipitation crossed the central part of the state just before dawn, and with air temperatures in the mid-20s, some of those raindrops froze, dusting sidewalks and grassy areas with snow during the early-morning hours. Several counties along the North Carolina-Virginia state line delayed school start times by two hours.
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Aug 25, 2023 | 
wral.com | Janine Bowen |Derek Medlin |Candace Sweat |Zac Gooch
A 19-year-old from Charlotte was killed and another person was injured early Sunday in a shooting at Winston-Salem State University, school officials said. The shooting happened at about 1:20 a.m. Sunday in the area of Lot W, near Wilson Hall and Gleason-Hairston Terrace. School officials placed the campus on lockdown from 1:30 to 4:50 a.m."Something just didn't feel right and we were driving onto campus and I saw the alarms and I had got the text message alert," said one student.
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Aug 25, 2023 | 
wral.com | Derek Medlin
The number of ballots cast so far in North Carolina's early-voting period topped 2 million on Thursday, according to the state Board of Elections. At a 9 p.m. count, 34 percent of registered voters, or 2,087,461 people, had voted in person. Another 165,847 votes were cast by absentee ballot. Early-voting numbers have far outpaced the same numbers from 2008. Four years ago, more than 2.4 million people voted early in person and 2.6 million when all non-Election Day voting was counted – both records.
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Aug 25, 2023 | 
wral.com | Derek Medlin |Kelly Gardner |Michael Joyner |Bryan Mims
Jacksonville police have charged a Hope Mills couple who they say kidnapped a woman and forced her to work as a prostitute. Robin Applewhite, 36, and Samantha Rivard, 29, both of 3668 Applegate Road, were arrested Sunday after Jacksonville police responding to a complaint of possible prostitution at Baymont Inn & Suites found a woman who said she was forced to travel from Cumberland County to Jacksonville and was being held in sexual servitude.
