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Grants are available from the state to help with local animal shelters. The Animal Welfare Section of the Veterinary Division of the N.C. Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services is accepting applications from local governments for grants from the Animal Shelter Support Fund. Information on the grant funds and the application process can be found on the Animal Shelter Support Fund page of the AWS website at: https://www.ncagr.gov/divisions/veterinary/aws/ShelterSupportFund. “Shelters can...
A Duplin County man who kidnapped his estranged wife and killed another man will spend 27 to 34 years in prison. Demecus McMillan, 29, was sentenced by Superior Court Judge Tiffany Powers Monday in Bladen County. He was arrested in August 2021 after shooting and killing Christopher Clemmons, 21, and kidnapping Tasheena Shandelle McMillan, 30, at a home on Lighter Knot Road in the Kelly community of Bladen....
Chancy Askew will not face the death penalty for the 2018 killing of Trooper Kevin Conner. Askew entered a guilty plea today in Brunswick County Superior Court as testimony began in his trial for the 2016 shooting of Jerome Parrott. Askew shot Parrott to death in a pool room in the Green Acres community. He was charged in that killing after he was indicted for Conner’s death in...