Celebrate the moms in your life on Sunday, May 12 with these Mother's Day deals including flowers, gift card bonus offers, restaurant deals, retail sales and more!

Mother's Day Deals 2024: Flowers, restaurant, retail and gift card bonus offers

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It's that time of year when your child will be taking end-of-grade tests or EOGs. What are EOGs and how can you help them be better prepared?

End-of-grade tests: Everything you need to know about these annual exams

Student testing 

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Around 8:30 p.m., a Fairmont police officer was attacked by a suspect with a knife. The officer shot and killed the suspect after being stabbed multiple times. 

Person shot, killed by Fairmont police officer after stabbing

Police car, blue lights, at night

Charles Kemp has lived in the little Robeson County town of Fairmont nearly his whole life and each month dutifully writes a town newsletter full of happenings and historic factoids. But there's more to it than that, a greater. purpose and meaning, which has to do with a tragic accident that befell Charles more than fifty years ago.

SEEKING TO TURN IT'S TO PARK RESORT INTO A WEEKLONG TRAVEL DESTINATION, NOT JUST A TWO OR THREE DAY TRIP FOR FAMILIES SPIRIT >> IT IS GOING TO BE SOMEPLACE. WE HAVE BEEN PROFILING NORTH CAROLINA WRITERS. >> SCOTT TELLS THE STORY OF A TOWN NEWSLETTER AND THE STORY OF THE MAN BEHIND THE STORY. >> Reporter: FAIRMONT, A TOWN KNOWN FOR BEING THE QUICKEST ROUTE TO THE BEACH. AND TO SOME EXTENT, FOR THE NEWSLETTER, CHARLES KEMP WRITES EVERY MONTH. >> THERE IS A LOT OF LOVE IN THIS TOWN. >> Reporter: CHARLES LOVES THE TOWN. THOUGH NOT SO MUCH THE TYPE. >> I USE THE HPC METHOD, HOT -- HUNT PACK AND CUSS. >> IT IS A TOWN IN ROBINSON COUNTY OF FEWER THAN 3000 PEOPLE. >> 1907 IS WHEN FAIRMONT BECAME FAIRMONT. >> Reporter: THE NEWSLETTER IS FULL OF FAIRMONT HISTORY. >> HOW MUCH WORK DO YOU PUT INTO IT? >> Reporter: HOURS OF WORK FOR AN EMAIL THAT REACHES MAYBE 2500 PEOPLE. >> WHY DO YOU DO IT? >> I FEEL LIKE I HAVE A PROMISE TO KEEP. >> Reporter: CHARLES AT 18 PLANES TO PALY BASEBALL IN COLLEGE AND DREAMED OF THEN BECOMING A SECRET SERVICE AGENT, INSPIRED BY THIS SECRET SERVICE AGENT. >> I WAS FASCINATED BY THEM. >> Reporter: BASEBALL IN THE SECRET SERVICE. >> BOTH OF THOSE THINGS WERE REMOVED FROM ME. >> Reporter: CHARLES GRADUATED FROM FAIRMONT HIGH, IN MAY, 1964. >> FIVE WEEKS LATER, MYSELF AND FOUR OTHER FRIENDS WENT OUT TO A POND COMMONLY CARDED CALLED THE IRRIGATION POND. WE HAD AN ACCIDENT IN THE WATER. I WAS BETTER. VERY BITTER. >> Reporter: HE WOULD NEVER BE THE SAME. BUT THEN HE MET A DOCTOR AT DUKE. >> PUT ME IN A WHEELCHAIR AND CARRIED ME AROUND TO NINE ROOMS, ONE RIGHT BY THE OTHER. >> Reporter: INTRODUCED CHARLES 29 PATIENTS WHO HAD NEVER WALKED AGAIN. CHARLES BECAME A HISTORY TEACHER AND A TOWN COMMISSIONER, AND A TOWN MAYOR, MORE THAN 40 YEARS OF SERVICE TO FAIRMONT. >> WHEN I LAID ON MY BACK IN THE HOSPITAL FOR 10 WEEKS, I GOT HUNDREDS OF CARDS SENT TO ME, I MADE IT A POINT THAT IF I EVER COULD GET BACK ON MY FEET AGAIN, I WOULD DO WHATEVER I COULD TO REPAY THIS TOWN. >> LOVE OF TOWN, AND OBLIGATION TO THAT DOCTOR. THE ONE WHO CARRIED CHARLES TO THOSE NINE ROOMS. >> AND HE SAID, GO HOME AND DO SOMETHING VALUABLE. YOU HAVE EARNED IT. >> Reporter: AND CHARLES HAS KEPT IT, THAT PROMISE, AND SO HE DUTIFULLY WRITES HIS FAIRMONT NEWSLETTER, FOR HOURS EVERY MONTH. BECAUSE IN A SMALL WAY, 2500 READERS, THE NEWSLETTER IS PART OF THE PROMISE ALSO. >> I USED TO FEEL BAD BECAUSE I HAD NO SHOES. UNTIL I MET A MAN WHO HAD NO FEET. I LIVE MY LIFE THAT WAY. >> SO MANY LESSONS WE CAN TAKE FROM THAT STORY. >> AND SO EMOTIONAL AND PASSIONATE ABOUT HIS WORK. >>> IN THE PAST, HE SERVED EIGHT YEARS AS MAYOR OF FAIRMONT, HE IS NOT MAYOR NOW,

Fairmont man spends life repaying town for its love 

The Robeson County Sheriff's Office and the Fairmont Police Department are looking for a man who has been missing since Jan. 15.

Law enforcement searching for missing Robeson County man

James McBryde

What began as a project that could go into effect during the 2020-21 school year is actually going into effect later this year in Robeson County.

Robeson County Schools to immediately close four schools, repurpose fifth

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A Fairmont firefighter was struck by a vehicle while responding to a crash on NC Highway 41, Robeson County officials said.

Fairmont firefighter hit by vehicle while responding to crash

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Four Lumberton residents were arrested Wednesday in the deaths of two people whose bodies were found in a field south of Fairmont earlier this week, the Robeson County Sheriff's Office said.