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The mother-in-law of Fayetteville State University’s chancellor-elect served on the school’s Board of Trustees until the day before he was elected. Darrell T. Allison, who is scheduled to become chancellor at FSU on March 15, is facing questions about how he was chosen for the position. Some FSU alumni are opposing his selection. Brenda Timberlake, who was an FSU trustee and was still listed as one on the school website Wednesday afternoon, was asked during a telephone interview if she is Darrell Allison’s mother-in-law. “That’s true,” she said. A university spokesman released a...

The Rev. Brian Thompson and his family were riding in his black Cadillac Escalade about eight years ago when a siren interrupted their Sunday afternoon drive. Thompson, the pastor at Simon Temple AME Zion Church on Yadkin Road, had finished three church services that morning. The family had just stopped for ice cream and were headed down McPherson Church Road when the patrol car with two white police officers pulled him over. The officers approached on each side of the SUV with their hands on their guns, Thompson said. “I was looking back over my shoulder (in the mirror),” he said, “My...

Troy Williams is an African-American conservative, a former Cumberland County sheriff’s deputy who believes in following the facts, not emotion. He writes a regular Opinion column as part of The Fayetteville Observer Community Advisory Board. He has traditionally been wary of attributing to racial bias problems that could just as easily be explained by other factors. “Racism gets a lot of press,” he wrote in a recent column, “and an important question becomes: Are we preventing it or perpetuating the problem? It’s easy to call someone a racist these days, and white people tend to be...

Two boys who had been missing since Friday have been found, officials said. The boys, Dwight Clarke III, 8, and his 9-month old brother, Sebastian Hagler, were believed to be with their mother, Joleah McMillan, according to statements issued Friday and Saturday by the Fayetteville Police Department. A statement issued by the department Sunday night said McMillan also had been located and was safe, but did not provide details about how she or the boys were found. “The juveniles are no longer considered missing,” the statement said. “There is no additional information to release at this t...

LUMBERTON — Two Robeson County men are accused of being cruel to animals, officials said. The men were arrested Monday after separate investigations, according to statements released by the Robeson County Sheriff’s Office. Nehemiah Pate, 25, of Pembroke is charged with 12 counts of misdemeanor cruelty to animals. Bail was set at $2,000. Antreal M. Henderson, 25, of Red Springs is charged with abandonment of an animal and cruelty to animals. Bail was set at $2,500. Investigators were called to the 100 block of Ottmus Road in Pembroke on Monday after someone in the community reported that ...