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Court date set for deputy's assailant (relevance: 100%, date: Feb 25, 2026)
LOUISBURG -- A suspect accused of shooting a Franklin County deputy, point-blank, is next slated to appear in court this spring.
Jermaine Anthony Branch has been awaiting his court date from a new setting since the end of January.
The evening of Dec. 18, authorities allege the 40-year-old Louisburg man shot Dep. Taylor Lucas before fleeing from arrest on E. River Road near George Leonard Road.

Officer's 'spidey sense' guided her to save a life! (relevance: 92.1%, date: Feb 25, 2026)
FRANKLINTON -- For Lauren Matthews, the line of duty to save a life beats any line on a map.
So, when, emergency dispatchers sent out a call of an unresponsive person, it didn't matter that the call was outside town limits.
"There is no imaginary line for us, we just go and assist anyone we can," said Matthews, who has been in law enforcement for a decade, but been with Franklinton PD for just more than a year.

Everyone is entitled to habeas protection (relevance: 32.5%, date: Feb 25, 2026)
Dear editor:
Mr. Day wrote last week that he is afraid "progressive propaganda" will lead to national chaos. The chaos is already here, but it isn't coming from progressive propaganda, it's coming from the lawless actions of the Trump administration.
Day wishes us to believe that due process is "malleable," and that federal district courts have no authority to intervene in detentions undertaken by Trump or Bondi.

Arrival of first locomotive hints at changes on the horizon (relevance: 12.1%, date: Feb 25, 2026)
Like his brother Augustus, Peter S. Foster received an exceptional education. Franklin County historian Thilbert H. Pearce quoted portions of a letter of Peter's written to his father on March 26, 1840, while he was a student in Raleigh. He and his teacher, who may have been John Y. Hicks of the Raleigh Academy, were excited witnesses of the coming of the first locomotive of the Raleigh and Gaston Railroad to reach the capital city.
According to existing records at William and Mary in Williamsburg, VA, Foster began studies at William and Mary College in 1839.