AUTRYVILLE — With a strong desire to build Autryville back up and bring new visitors into their hometown, Debra Baxley and her partner Amy Brewer held a grand opening earlier this month for their business Wild Magnolia Florist.

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A Roseboro woman is missing and considered in danger, as her husband is being sought for questioning in the disappearance, as well as on warrants in connection with a vehicle stolen out of Bladen County, according to Sampson County Sheriff’s authorities.

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CLINTON — The Clinton Police chief is moving toward retirement, and city officials have initiated the process to find his successor, hiring Mercer Group Associates to assist in finding the next chief.

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TURKEY — The town board voted recently to raise water rates in the town, a response to a recent study

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A suspect shot in an officer-involved shooting in Newton Grove has been identified as a Clinton man, who has now had felony warrants issued on him for allegedly breaking into a woman’s residence, committing sexual acts on her and taking the victim at gunpoint from the home, Sampson County Sheriff’s authorities said Thursday.

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