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In October 1955, Olympia had a new culinary sensation: the Seaburger, a fried patty made of fresh fish, shrimp and meat fried to a golden brown served on In October 1955, Olympia had a new culinary sensation: the Seaburger, a fried patty made of fresh fish, shrimp and meat fried to a golden brown served on a toasted hamburger bun with tartar sauce.

Community protesters disagree with a special prosecutors decision not to file charges against Lt. Jeffery Hash, who shot and killed Jason Walker.

A burglar found standing in the bedroom of a Fayetteville home as a woman slept early Saturday fired off a shot before running away, police said.  The home invasion was reported at 5:18 a.m. after an Ellington Street resident who was awake in the front room of his home heard a noise in the sunroom, according to the Fayetteville Police Department. When the resident entered his bedroom where his wife was sleeping, he found an intruder there and yelled. Startled, the burglar discharged a firea...

A vehicle jumped the curb at Eutaw Shopping Center on Bragg Boulevard on Friday afternoon and smashed through the window of a vacant shop there, a witness said.  Mike Starling, an employee at Hayes Hobby House directly next door, said he was in the front of his shop talking with customers when he saw the white Kia SUV pull into a parking space then suddenly lurch forward.  “It just jumped the curb and went between two support posts and through the window,” Starling said.  Starling said t...

One person was arrested and the getaway vehicle seized in an armed robbery of a Fort Bragg Road gas station last month, according to a news release Wednesday from the Fayetteville Police Department.  Samuel Jamall Gibbons, 29, of Fayetteville, is charged with two counts each of robbery with a dangerous weapon, conspiracy to commit robbery with a dangerous weapon and possession of stolen property.  Police allege Gibbons was the driver of a black sedan captured on surveillance camera carrying a...

A gunman made off with cash and smokes early Sunday, the Fayetteville Police Department said Tuesday.

RALEIGH — A Harnett County newborn who died in November had “extensive” bleeding of the scalp and brain resulting in his death, an autopsy released Monday revealed.  Christopher Joseph Riddle, 28, of Blenheim, South Carolina, is charged with murder in the Nov. 23 death of his 6-day-old son Tristen Gabrial Riddle. According to the autopsy report, the 6-pound boy born Nov. 17 by emergency cesarean section, had contusions on his neck, jaw and forehead, fractures to his skull, extensive blee...