January 22, 2007 archives

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Monday, January 22, 2007

'A Box Seat' for 'Da Bears'

News-Argus/Greg Sousa Chicago Bears fan Joe Fitzpatrick, 13, enjoys his team’s win over the New Orleans Saints in the National Football Conference championship game from his “box seat” at home Sunday. Joe, a student at Rosewood Middle School, made...

One killed, four injured in shooting

DUDLEY -- One man is behind bars and two others are being sought in a weekend drive-by shooting that killed a 34-year-old Dudley man and injured four others including a 6-year-old girl during a child's birthday party at Durham Lake...

Two teens killed in Johnston accident

KENLY -- Two teenage drivers died and a passenger was injured in a head-on collision Sunday night between Smithfield and Kenly. The drivers were Nicholas Ryan Creech, 16, of N.C. 39, Selma, and Reece Leighton Richardson, 17, of Richardson Road,...

Fremont PD finds gun; teen charged

FREMONT -- Acting police Chief Chris Thigpen might not have the official title, but he's wasting no time in his effort to stamp out crime in the town's drug-infested areas. And that quest has led to the arrest of at...

Resident could get stuck with bill to clean up trash on his property

The bags continued to stack up on both sides of Camp Trailee Road. Bottles, food and pounds of other discarded items were just a few feet away from Dwayne Walraft's home.He never knew the trash was there -- until the...

Accessibility group chairman wants to make life easier for local disabled

In 1993, Joann Robinson was involved in a head-on collision that claimed the life of her 13-month-old son. Doctors held out little hope that she would survive and she spent five months hospitalized in intensive care. She defied the odds...

Public records

Investigations Wayne County sheriff's deputies are investigating these reports: *April She'ron Delcour reported Jan. 18 that someone stole a wallet containing her driver's license, checkbook, debit card and other items from her classroom at Brogden Middle School in Dudley. *Merdith...