Category Archives: Local News
Stolen Vehicle Crashes Into Kinston Home
An investigation is underway after three people crash a stolen vehicle into a Kinston home.On Friday, officers with the Kinston P.D. responded to the 2500 block of Hodges Road for the report of someon...
Jul 08, 2020
Vehicle Overturns In Front Of EMS Station (PHOTOS)
Tuesday afternoon, Wayne County EMS Station 1 notified the county dispatchers there has been a single vehicle accident involving a rollover in front of their EMS building on Indian Springs Road. The w...
Jul 07, 2020
Board Finds Substantial Evidence To Doubt Foster’s Residency
An election protest filed against a candidate for the Wayne County Board of Commissioners lives on and is heading back to the state.Bevan Foster won the March 3rd Democratic Primary for the District 3...
Jul 07, 2020
PIC OF THE DAY: Helping Out Dad
These two young ladies are truly the apple of their father’s eye. Brandon Gray is a member of the New Hope Fire Department and when that alarm goes off, his 7-year-old twin daughters, Emalyn and...
Jul 07, 2020
ACE TEAM: Heroin Suspect Found Driving With Daughter
A suspect is arrested for heroin and child abuse during a July 4th traffic stop. On Saturday, deputies with the Wayne County Sheriff's ACE Team stopped a vehicle while patrolling the southern area of ...
Jul 07, 2020
Recent Rains Impact N.C. Farmers
(NORTH CAROLINA NEWS NETWORK) — Rainfall has been plentiful this spring and early summer and North Carolina’s farmers have been suffering.Fields have been too wet for the planting of some ...
Jul 07, 2020
Crews Rescue Tree Trimmer (PHOTOS)
After lunchtime Monday, the New Hope Fire Department was dispatched to the scene on Merlin Lane just off Mark Edwards Road. The firefighters found a member of a tree removal service was about half way...
Jul 06, 2020
REMINDER: Free COVID-19 Testing This Week In Seven Springs
The Wayne County Health Department and Wayne UNC Health Care will offer free COVID-19 testing in Seven Springs on Tuesday, July 7, and Thursday, July 9, from 9 a.m. to 12 p.m. Testing will be offered ...
Jul 06, 2020
WCPS Operates Under Interim Budget, Waits For State Figures
It is July, but Wayne County Public Schools has not yet approved an official budget for its new fiscal year. That's as the district attempts to overcome a nearly $5 million fund balance deficit disclo...
Jul 06, 2020
Scholarship Recipient Aspires To Give Back
The ambition to succeed is as American as apple pie and Coca-Cola. Lettie Pate was certainly a testament to that thought. Born in Thaxton, Virginia she was raised in the Episcopal Church, privately ed...
Jul 05, 2020