Author Archives: Curtis Media

Thursday morning, firefighters from Rosewood and Wayne County EMS were dispatched to the scene of a single vehicle accident on Perkins Mills Road near Rosewood Road. The 2015 white Chevrolet passenger...

VIRUS OUTBREAK-VOTING MACHINESN.C. judge won’t halt use of touch-screen vote-mark machinesRALEIGH, N.C. (AP) - A North Carolina judge has ruled certain touch-screen ballot-marking machines will ...

August 20, 67, DudleyMrs. Wanda J. Pickett, 67, passed on Thursday, August 20, 2020 Johnston UNC Health Care, Smithfield, NC. Arrangements are incomplete at this time.Services of compassionate and dis...

August 19, 65,James Franks, 65, of 106 Dosia Dr., died Wednesday at his residence.Arrangements are incomplete at Haskins Funeral Home & Cremations, LLC.

Wayne County sheriff’s deputies make a pot-dealing bust during a traffic stop. On Saturday, deputies pulled a vehicle over in the southern portion of the county. During the stop, a passenger in ...

Duke Energy will begin its standard billing practices in North Carolina in the coming weeks, keeping service disconnections for nonpayment suspended until October 2020, a full month beyond its require...

The University of Mount Olive Department of Athletics typically gets their hands dirty on the playing field in practice, games, or in field maintenance, but last week the coaches and staff put down th...

The Wayne County Historical Association and Museum has received $4,000 NC CARES: Humanities Relief Grant from the North Carolina Humanities Council. This emergency grant funding was provided to North ...

AP-NC-JAIL RELEASE-PREGNANT WOMANJudge releases pregnant woman from jail with virus outbreakCHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) - A federal judge in North Carolina has released an inmate who is eight months pregnant...

School is officially in session for all Wayne County Public Schools students. Although remote, on Monday, August 17, 29-schools operating on the Traditional Academic Calendar kicked off their first da...