Lee County News

April 16 is a day that many of us will unlikely forget any time soon. That's the day that a series of tornadoes tore through the Carolinas. Perhaps the lasting image for most people, though, is of a Lowe's Home Improvement store in Lee County, which was reduced to rubble. Today, the store reopened. Full story...

Lee County School Superintendent Jeff Moss is under fire for allowing students in his district to write letters to lawmakers protesting possible cuts in state education spending. Full story...

Cindy Busick's home and belongings were destroyed by the tornado. The EF4 tornado lifted her house and splintered it across a rural neighborhood in Sanford, NC. Cindy was amazed to still be alive. “I flew a football field length in a bath tub,” said Cindy, who had clutched to her little dog in the tub as the tornado tore through her home. “People have found documents with our names on it 70 miles away." Full story...