Formerly San Lee FC, city’s new semi-pro team has better facilities and a team hungry to play soccer at a higher level and advance It was a day designed to not only celebrate the return of ...

A Lee County prosecutor voluntarily dismissed murder charges against a local man on Monday, according to court records. Deshon Smith, 19, turned himself in to Sanford police on March 2 after a ...

By Gordon Anderson | gordon@rantnc.com Embezzlement charges against a former administrator of a local charter school brought in 2024 were dismissed by a judge Tuesday after the school in question ...

By Richard Sullins | richard@rantnc.com A capacity crowd filled Lee County’s McSwain Center Monday as experts and residents alike told the Board of Commissioners about the dangers of a ...

When the Sanford City Council approved the Vermillion residential development last July, a familiar set of events played out. Vermillion, to be the county’s largest-ever housing development, will ...

A Sanford man apparently killed himself Tuesday evening after a domestic situation at his home, police reported Wednesday. Officers responded to 1616 Columbine Road in west Sanford around 6:07 p.m.

Staff members from Lee County Library’s main location at Hawkins Avenue provided a tour of the new facility on Bragg Street on Feb. 20. Pictured, from left to right, are Christopher Luettger, ...

The owners of the new Mr. Gatti’s franchise have set July 14 as a tentative opening date. Matt Oborne grew up in Sanford enjoying the Mr. Gatti’s that was located on Horner Boulevard from the 1980s ...

What began as a small, rural airstrip at the northern end of Lee County has blossomed into an economic engine with a $61 million annual impact on the region In 2014, Geoff Myers was living in ...

A 19-year-old Lee County man has been charged with murder after a shooting that left another 19 year old dead and another person injured. Lee County sheriff’s deputies responded to a report of ...

Before there was a United States, what is now North Carolina was home to indigenous tribes for thousands of years. Their stories, traditions and heartache have gone mostly untaught in our history ...