Fuquay-Varina Independent

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Fuquay-Varina Independent
Type Weekly newspaper
Format Broadsheet
Owner(s) Civitas Media
PublisherWendy Welker
EditorJanet Kangas
LanguageEnglish
Ceased publicationAugust 1, 2013;10 years ago (2013-08-01)
Headquarters209 E. Vance Street, Fuquay-Varina, North Carolina
Sister newspapersGarner News, Cleveland Post, Apex Herald and Holly Springs Sun
OCLC number 30539174
Website fuquay-varinaindependent.com

Fuquay-Varina Independent was a weekly newspaper based in Fuquay-Varina, North Carolina. It closed in 2013. [1]

An interview in the paper with former United States Attorney James Proctor, dated November 28, 1984, is cited by Errol Morris in his book about the Jeffrey MacDonald murder case, A Wilderness of Error. Proctor was involved in the investigation of MacDonald, and the onetime son-in-law of District Judge Franklin T. Dupree, Jr., who presided at MacDonald's trial. The Independent is identified as Proctor's "hometown newspaper". [2]

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References

  1. Five Triangle newspapers to close Aug. 1 Archived July 21, 2013, at the Wayback Machine [ dead link ]
  2. Morris, Errol (2012). A Wilderness of Error: The Trials of Jeffrey MacDonald. New York, N.Y.: Penguin Press. pp. 1–4. ISBN   978-1-59420-343-5.