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Tuesday, December 18, 2007

County's namesake

News-Argus/Greg Sousa Wayne County commissioners John Bell, Bud Gray, Jack Best, J.D. Evans, Efton Sager and Andy Anderson pose in front of the Spirit of Wayne County with 916th Air Refueling Wing Commander Col. Fritz Linsenmeyer. For more information...

Paramount Theater has new director

The almost-completed Paramount Theater has a new director. Sherry Archibald, former Downtown Goldsboro Develop-ment Corp. promotions coordinator and current Habitat for Humanity development director, will direct programs and manage the theater once construction is complete. She will earn $49,000 a...

Armed robbers caught; one still at large

Police caught two men under the crawl space of a house using dogs yesterday afternoon, but are still looking for one more in connection with an afternoon armed robbery. Three men stormed into Hudson Insurance Agency on North John Street...

City Council will rule on request for new club

Goldsboro City Council heard four people speak Monday night about rezoning Superior Court Judge Jerry Braswell's property to allow for a possible bar. Braswell asked council to change the zoning at the site, located on the west side of South...

County gets its own KC-135

For those gathered inside a hangar on Seymour Johnson Air Force Base Monday, the ceremony that brought them together was about more than a few words painted on a KC-135R Stratotanker. But each would tell you that the words, themselves,...

Police ask neighbors to look for missing man

Goldsboro police want residents of the Quail Park area to check storage sheds and other hiding places for a missing, injured man, an investigator says. Investigator Dwayne Dean said Masonic Deonta Harvey, 25, was last seen in the area of...

City holiday sanitation schedule

The City of Goldsboro will observe Christmas holiday on Monday, Dec. 24, Tuesday, Dec. 25, and Wednesday, Dec. 26. Sanitation services scheduled for Monday, December 24, will be serviced on Wednesday, Dec. 26, 2007. Sanitation services scheduled for Tuesday, Dec....

Live nativity scene at Selah Church

GRANTHAM -- The Selah Christian Church and the Grantham community will present a drive-through live nativity Friday and Saturday Dec. 21-22 at the church. Organizers will place directional signs on U.S. 13 South and Stevens Milll Road to lead motorists...

WCC holiday schedule

Wayne Community College, including its education center at Seymour Johnson Air Force Base, will close for the holidays on Friday at 4 p.m. and reopen on Jan. 2 at 8 a.m. The WCC library will close today at 5 p.m....

Public record

Common law robbery Thomas Dawson of Saulsberry Drive told police he was getting tools from his truck while parked in the 1300 block of Franklin Court when three black men jumped into the back of the truck with him, assaulted...