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Monday, August 25, 2008

WCC honors 11 Adult High School students

Wayne Community College's Adult High School Program has honored 11 students for outstanding academic achievement in the summer 2008 session. The scholars list, for students who have completed at least two courses in the eight-week session with an "A"...

Boys and Girls Club team captures state honors for movie invention

Members of the Boys and Girls Club's Team Goldsboro pasted pictures inside their sunglasses and headed to Raleigh. The five teens, on a mission to promote their idea, knew the theoretical invention they named "Veyez" was doable, and they...

MOC professor recognized

Lenard Moore, assistant professor of language and literature at Mount Olive College, is one of five individuals and one organization selected to receive the 24th Annual Raleigh Medal of Arts given by the City of Raleigh Arts Commission for...

More heroin being seized in Wayne County than normal

Between the Goldsboro Police Department and Wayne County Sheriff's Office, three alleged heroin dealers have been arrested over the past month. Over the past few years, Wayne County arrests of heroin dealers have been relatively uncommon and spaced far...

Thousands of students head back to classrooms

Wayne County students gathered their bookbags, donned new clothes and headed out the door today as the county school district opened its 2008-09 school year this morning. News-Argus/Bobby Williams Jinger Haskett, left, a first-year kindergarten teacher at Brogden Primary...

One killed in crash with car Sunday

A 21-year-old dirt bike driver died early Sunday morning after colliding with a car on U.S. 13 South, according to a report filed by investigators with the state Highway Patrol. Matthew Ryan Graham, of 1940 U.S. 13 South, was...

Republican AG candidate challenges Cooper's record

Two issues motivated Republican Asheboro attorney Bob Crumley to throw his name into the pot for the state's top law enforcement position earlier this year. One is the poor handling of the state's crime lab, he said. The other,...