The ruling stems from a lawsuit filed in 1994 by five of the state's poorer school systems and parents in those districts. That means Robeson has the highest probability that two people selected at random will be of a different race or ethnic background. There's about a 70 percent chance of that happening to anyone who settles down in Robeson County. Anson County's residents were most likely to describe themselves as a member of only one race, with 99 and a half percent of county residents describing themselves that way. The next nine most diverse counties are Hoke, Durham, Cumberland, Duplin, Scotland, Sampson, Greene, Wilson and Vance.
State law requires year-long suspensions for students caught taking weapons to school.
They say students were unruly and that the principal and some teachers seemed afraid of them. The Foys are both probation officers. The tobacco industry was back on trial Monday, this time accused by New York's largest insurance company of conspiring to conceal the risks of smoking. He said the conspiracy had resulted in an avalanche of insurance claims for lung cancer and other smoking-related ailments. Tobacco lawyers have said their clients never plotted to hide the hazards of smoking.