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The Facebook data breach opened a Pandora’s box of concerns for social media consumers. The company estimated that data firm Cambridge Analytica may have had information on about 87 million Facebook users without their knowledge. In testimony before the U.S. Senate, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg promised to do more to…

Immigration remains a hot-button topic, and how it’s tied to U.S. jobs and the economy creates much of the debate. Critics of immigrants, especially undocumented immigrants, say they’ve taken jobs away from American workers. President Donald Trump emphasized that contention – often raised by Republicans – during his campaign with…

FRANKLIN — A former Bladen County teacher has taken the leap into the publishing world with her first book of poetry. Merrilee Bordeaux, who spent 20 years teaching middle school language arts and social studies, recently released “A Song of Life and Other Poems” through St. Clair Publications in McMinnville,…

Editor’s note: The Bladen Journal will no longer publish the “ongoing events” listing. Instead, anyone holding regular events should submit information to the Bladen Journal in time for publication in the community calendar. The deadlines are Wednesday at noon for Friday’s edition; Friday at noon for Tuesday’s edition. Information can…

In many U.S. cities, the writing is on the walls – graffiti vandalism, that is, creating expensive eyesores that are difficult to prevent and damaging to an area’s image. A U.S. Justice Department study found that graffiti discourages people from using mass transit, makes business districts less attractive to shoppers…

Each time the American people think the nation’s opioid crisis can’t get any worse – it gets worse. In 2016, a total of 42,249 people died from opioid overdoses, which comes to 116 deaths every day, according to the United States Department of Health and Human Services. In addition, 11.5…