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A Pinehurst man took home more than $400,000 after winning a prize from a $30 scratch-off ticket. Robert Grimone won a $1 million prize after purchasing a $10,000,000 Colossal Cash ticket from the Circle K on Beverly Lane in Southern Pines, according to a statement released by the N.C. Education Lottery. Grimone could have taken the $1 million as an annuity of $50,000 a year over 20 years, but decided instead to take a lump sum of $600,000, the statement said. He took home $424,509 after required federal and state taxes, it said. The lottery’s website does not say what the odds are of winni...

The head of Cumberland County Schools said Tuesday that he believes students will be able to return to school buildings next month even if all teachers have not been vaccinated for COVID-19. Superintendent Marvin Connelly Jr. and school board Chairwoman Alicia Chisolm will write a letter to Gov. Roy Cooper, asking him to declare teachers essential workers so they can be moved higher on the priority list for vaccinations. Connelly told the Board of Education at its meeting that some teachers who are 65 years old or older have already been vaccinated. Residents who are that old and healthcare w...

The gunman in a fatal shooting Tuesday near Raeford Road is being sought by Fayetteville police. The shooting was reported about 11:46 a.m. in the 4800 block of Alamance Road, according to a statement released by the Fayetteville Police Department. When officers arrived, they found a man with multiple gunshot wounds in a parking lot near a vehicle, it said. The man was taken to Cape Fear Valley Medical Center where he died, according to the statement. His name was not released because his family had not yet been notified, it said. The shooting was along a portion of Alamance Road that runs pa...

The Fayetteville Observer As the Fayetteville City Council considers what to do with the Market House, the options for how it might be used could be limited. City Manager Doug Hewett talked to the council at a special meeting Jan. 27 about potential obstacles to repurposing the Market House. The council voted at the meeting not to demolish it and not to leave it as it is. The council’s other two options are finding a new way to use the Market House or move it to another location. The council voted to ask Hewett and city staff members to research those two possibilities.

The Fayetteville Observer More than 21,000 cases of COVID-19 have been confirmed in Cumberland County, but trends related to the disease are going down. The county Health Department reported that 15 county residents died from COVID-19 during the last week of January, according to a statement released by county officials. The state Department of Health and Human Services said a total of 225 deaths in the county were related to the disease. The state DHHS website says 21,278 cases have been reported in Cumberland County. The county remains in the state’s Red Tier of the disease, which means i...