HAMLET — Council members on Tuesday reviewed the city’s water and sewer rates since last summer’s rate increase.

HAMLET — Box jumps, wall balls, bench press, deadlifts and kettle-bell swings are just a few exercises local first responders will be doing in the High Intensity Training class that Richmond Community College will be offering this spring at the Rockingham Rescue Squad. 

HAMLET — Police say they found two men with meth during a welfare check.

ROCKINGHAM — A Durham man is in the Richmond County Jail awaiting extradition to South Carolina, accused of human trafficking.

Body-worn cameras were supposed to serve as a silent witness in confrontations between police and civilians and usher in a new era of public confidence in law enforcement through transparency. 

LAURINBURG — Investigators in Scotland County have arrested three men and are looking for three others they say are responsible for a recent regional crime spree.

HAMLET ― Police say a man caught on camera leaving a stolen car at a gas station stole his getaway vehicle in another state.

HAMLET— Investigators are using social media once again to help identify a suspect.

By making it easier to sue for retaliatory arrests, Supreme Court justices could pump the brakes on “contempt of cop” cases where citizens’ cross words and surly attitudes lead to low-level criminal charges.

HAMLET — A week after learning she had an outstanding warrant, a woman has turned herself in.

Nancy Ingram, of Hamlet, turned herself in at the Richmond County Magistrate’s office around 11 a.m. Saturday and was served by the Rockingham Police Department, according to Detective Capt. Randy Dover.

Ingram is charged with a single felony count of harboring a fugitive. Investigators believe she was helping 22-year-old Edward McNair Sloan — accused of shooting a man outside the Richmond County Soup Kitchen on Oct. 24 — hide prior to his arrest the following day.