A Superior Court judge is giving the FBI fair warning that too much delay on a hair analysis in the Emily Haddock murder case could render the lab tests inadmissible in court.

The folks at Land-of-Sky Regional Council submitted this news item: Who knew that a snake could help keep the cold away? Through the Retired & Senior Volunteer Program, residents of Laurel Woods Apartments in south Asheville volunteered to stuff and decorate 17 draft-stoppers - aka "draft-constrictors," since the completed ones look like snakes.

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The Harnett County Sheriff's Department confirms to ABC 11 Eyewitness News that they are actively engaged in a search for a missing three-year-old boy.

By Doug Clark Assistant Editor A Cameron man was arrested Tuesday morning in Sampson County and charged with a laundry list of offenses after the man reportedly gave officials a fake name when he was arrested.

A heavily armed 13-year-old boy was shot to death after shooting a Harnett County Officer in the leg Tuesday.

The simple white shotgun shack where Elvis Presley was born is so tiny it could easily fit inside a single room in the opulent Graceland mansion where he spent his final years -- maybe in the Jungle Room with its green-carpeted ceiling.

Professional wrestler Jeff Hardy was indicted by a Moore County grand jury Monday on several drug charges related to a search of his Cameron home last September by law enforcement agents.

The suspect was arrested shortly after the assault. Thirty-three year old Zepplin Lee Hopper of Cameron, North Carolina, is currently being held in the Orange County Jail on a $101,000 dollar bond.

A recent poll found that two of Moore County's towns are among the prettiest in the state.

A class of Vass-Lakeview Elementary School kindergartners took a field trip Thursday -- without leaving the classroom.

An exploding underground gas tank that shot a fireball over 20 feet into the night air Tuesday resulted in two minor injuries and damage to the parking lot of a convenience store.

A Cameron man was arrested in connection with an attempted larceny of a computer at Wal-Mart, located at 1415 Sunset Ave.

Good luck has come around twice for two Moore County residents. Billy Ray and Brenda Doby of Cameron scratched their way to $3 million on the "$200 Million Extravaganza" game, according to a press release from the North Carolina Education release.

Logan Tart, center, practices her song in the Sampson Community Theatre production of a Babes in Toyland,a while a host of youngsters watch and listen.