Fayetteville NC

Local and state officials met Friday morning at E.E. Smith High School to discuss strategies aimed at reducing traffic-related deaths

Downtown Fayetteville now has its first chef-driven grocery and corner store in Market Square. Market Square Pantry is a new community minded market, offering things like seasonal fresh produce, easy grab snacks, fresh bakery items and other food and drink options. Market Square Pantry, located at 23 Market Square,...

Fayetteville, North Carolina – A 26-year-old man with a long criminal record is facing multiple felony charges after police say they uncovered illegal drugs and firearms inside a residence in Fayetteville earlier this month. According to the Fayetteville Police Department, officers arrested Matthew Ellis McQueen, 26,...

Wallace police have charged a man in a woman's shooting death that took place on Dec. 14. The Wallace Police Department announced Dec. 16 that Melvin Cruz Morales, 40, of 124 Wallace Mobile Home Park Lane, was arrested in Harnett County. The Harnett County Sheriff's Office and NC State Bureau of Investigation...

A search warrant in a 2021 homicide investigation that produced an arrest four years later shows that a friend of the victim believed he was the person the alleged shooter was angry with when a man was killed in the Summerwind Mobile Home Park. Derames Lamar Freeman, 35, was arrested by U.S. Marshals in Albany, New...

FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. (WNCN) — The family of Evonte McNeill plans to conduct a foot search this weekend in Fayetteville as questions continue to surround his disappearance. McNeill has been missing since November 2023 after he was released from Cape Fear Valley Medical Center following a mental health crisis. His...

The crash shut down all lanes of Yadkin Road at Cimarron Drive.

Three people were arrested following a shooting in Southern Pines at Brookside Park Apartments on Dec. 10 that left one person with non-life-threatening injuries. Southern Pines Police said in a press release on Dec. 19 that Devonta Clark, 29, of Greenville, is facing charges of assault with a deadly weapon with...

A wave of closures is hitting the Moore County craft beer scene as three prominent locations announced they will shutter operations by the end of December: Southern Pines Brewing Company, Hatchet Brewing Company, and the Buggy Factory. This comes on the heels of Southern Pines Brewing’s Air Tool Drive location...

A Pentecostal minister has opened a new barbecue restaurant on South Reilly Road less than a year after moving from Texas to Fayetteville. Nakeya Miller, owner of MillerBoyz BBQ at 594 S. Reilly Road, told The Fayetteville Observer on Dec. 15 that he moved from Dallas to his wife's hometown of Fayetteville around...