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Moore County Sheriff Ronnie Fields said the elderly Aberdeen couple shot to death at their Roseland Road home on Friday were âpillars of our community.â âThey were both widely known and loved,â Fields said of D.P. and Mary Lou Black. âTheir deaths have been a tremendous loss for us all.â D.P. Black, 91, owned Blackâs Paving and Construction, a business he and his wife ran together for more than 50 years. Pam Dowd, who worked for D.P. Black in the 1980s, said her former boss would âgive you the shirt off his back.â âIf you needed a job, heâd give you a job,â she said. âAnd if he didnât have any jobs available, heâd get you to wash his truck or do yard work at his house just so youâd have some money in your pocket. He was always helping people.â ....
COVID-19 cases are surging in the state and now average more than 6,000 per day. N.C. Gov. Roy Cooper used his executive powers to issue a 10 p.m. to 5 a.m. statewide curfew that began last Friday. The mandate requires restaurants, bars, entertainment venues and personal care businesses to close at 10 p.m. Anyone traveling to and from work, picking up food or taking care of a family member is excluded from the order. Now more than ever we need help with enforcement from our local partners to fight this raging pandemic, Cooper said. Taking steps now to protect our communities by enforcing safety precautions will help reduce transmission of the virus and save lives. ....