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The Moore Free and Charitable Clinic in Southern Pines is seeing a steady increase in the number of people seeking medical care as changes involving Medicaid and Affordable Care Act subsidies affect local residents. The clinic serves uninsured patients in Moore County and provides care regardless of a patient’s ability to pay. That mission makes the organization an important part of the community’s health-care safety net, particularly for people who may not qualify for public

A Seagrove man has been sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole for the 2021 murder of Debbie Jo Owens. Jimmy Dale Sheffield received the sentence September 15 in Moore County Superior Court. The sentence followed a first-degree murder conviction, according to Moore County District Attorney Mike Hardin. Owens was Sheffield’s girlfriend and lived with him in an upstairs bedroom at a home on Chriscoe Road in West Seagrove. She was last

A West End man has been sentenced to just under 20 to nearly 25 years in prison for a 2023 impaired-driving crash that killed two people and permanently injured a third on U.S. 1 in Aberdeen. Darren Maurice Lindsay pleaded guilty September 8 in Moore County Superior Court to two counts of second-degree murder, two counts of aggravated felony death by motor vehicle, felony serious injury by motor vehicle and several driving offenses. Those additional