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Wednesday, February 6, 2008

Black history exhibit

News-Argus/Bonnie Edwards Wayne County Museum Manager Johnna Nelson shows one of the displays in the Black History Exhibit, which opened Tuesday. For more information see Black history exhibit open at museum....

Officials ask why courts trumped security

In January, after a Mount Olive Middle School student was arrested for carrying an unloaded handgun onto campus, members of the Wayne County Board of Education voiced their concerns about the security situation at several schools. In particular, officials...

25 sought in another drug raid in county

Unseasonably spring-like weather might have influenced the name of "Operation Spring Cleanup," a Tuesday morning drug offender roundup in Wayne County. Police sought 25 people named in warrants for 54 charges throughout the county, an operation conducted by the...

Black history exhibit open at museum

A black history exhibit featuring local artifacts that describe the black experience in Wayne County from slavery to the present opened this week at the county Museum on William Street. Museum manager Johnna Nelson said the items in the exhibit...

Black poets' work featured Friday, Sunday

From staff reports Local actors will perform "Portrait of a People: A Survey of African American Poetry" on Friday at 7 p.m. and again on Sunday at 3 p.m. in the music room on the second floor of the Dogwood...

Public Record

Break-in suspect charged Goldsboro police found a breaking and entering suspect inside an apartment on Harris Streets' Quinn Village after an emergency call, Capt. J.J. Biggins reported in a news release. Tramarcus Lashawn Sasser of Goldsboro shut the door on...