Heidi Pérez-Moreno

3 weeks ago | cityviewnc.com | Heidi Pérez-Moreno

This story was originally published by the Border Belt Independent. A Fayetteville man convicted of murder in Robeson County eight years ago has been exonerated, according to the North Carolina Innocence Inquiry Commission. A three-judge panel voted unanimously on Wednesday to clear Clarence Roberts, 49, who in 2017 was convicted of second-degree murder and assault with a deadly weapon in the case of Joshua Floyd Council.

3 weeks ago | theassemblync.com | Heidi Pérez-Moreno

About two months ago, a Greensboro-based advocacy group got a call from two Durham residents who had seen unfamiliar vehicles looping around their Northgate Park neighborhood. They saw law enforcement officers with their faces covered, and they thought they knew what was happening: an ICE raid. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement put three men in handcuffs and drove them away, the pair said. They sent in video of someone wearing a Customs and Border Protection badge.

1 month ago | robesonian.com | Heidi Pérez-Moreno

James H. Marshburn Contributed photo | NCDOT ❮ ❯ James H. Marshburn had worked as a trooper for the North Carolina Highway Patrol for less than two months when he got a call on Sept. 19, 1964, about suspicious activity on a southbound lane of Interstate 95, about five miles north of Lumberton.

1 month ago | borderbelt.org | Heidi Pérez-Moreno

By Heidi [email protected] H. Marshburn had worked as a trooper for the North Carolina Highway Patrol for less than two months when he got a call on Sept. 19, 1964, about suspicious activity on a southbound lane of Interstate 95, about five miles north of Lumberton. When Marshburn and another trooper arrived at the scene of a stolen car, they encountered two convicts who had escaped a work detail in Raleigh.

1 month ago | borderbelt.org | Heidi Pérez-Moreno

By Heidi [email protected] and Columbus counties are expected to see significant growth in the next five years, newly released projections show. Bladen County’s population is projected to grow 5.7% by 2030, according to a February report by the N.C. Office of State Budget and Management. Columbus County’s population is projected to grow 4.5%. If the projections hold true, each county would gain more than 2,000 new residents.