A protest in Trump Country brings home nation’s race divides

Former NFL football player Vonta Leach, left, who voted for Hillary Clinton, gets his haircut alongside Jamie Locklear, who voted for Donald Trump, at a barbershop in Lumberton, N.C., Thursday, Oct. 26, 2017. Leach has no problem with Trump's supporters: he works out every morning with some, he plays basketball with them, he routinely gets his hair cut next to a friend who happens to be a Trump fan.

County: Time of school board to lead –

The Public Schools of Robeson County Board of Education, not the county commissioners, will have to lead efforts to develop a plan to build new Robeson County schools. That's the opinion of at least three Robeson County commissioners after Senate Bill 554, a bill that would have helped move forward a proposed schools consolidation plan, failed to pass in the General Assembly on July 1 before legislators adjourned until January.