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Wednesday, February 23, 2011

Logan named interim manager for city

As the search for outgoing City Manager Joe Huffman's replacement continues, members of the City Council are putting his current assistant into the role for the time being. Tasha Logan, who has served as assistant city manager for nearly six...

Mini history lesson

Chidi Bowman, a fourth-grade student at School Street Elementary, looks over photographs of famous black Americans that are part of a mini-Black History exhibit in the classroom of teacher Teresa Joyner. Bowman was looking at a photo of baseball pitching...

County officials concerned about plan to shift expenses

Already embattled county budgets would suffer more hits should the General Assembly adopt a budget proposal that shifts millions of dollars in school funding costs to the counties. Under the proposal counties would foot the bill for replacement school buses,...

Teen saves couple from fire

Jonathan Wise was at home with his girlfriend, Paula Locklear, on Sunday morning, watching TV. Dominique Rivers, 16, was across the other side of the Beaver Street cul de sac in the Carraway Creek neighborhood, baby-sitting his nephew at his...

Airman succumbs to injuries

For the fifth time since October, members of the 4th Fighter Wing are mourning the loss of one of their own. And like three of the four Air Force deaths that preceded it, Senior Airman Cody Hendrickson's was allegedly self-inflicted....

Sudents win Human Relations poster/essay contest

The City of Goldsboro and the County of Wayne held the 37th annual Human Relations Banquet and Awards Ceremony on Saturday at Herman Park Center. Winners of the student essay contest were: Grades 10-12 1st, Chantrel Reynolds, Eastern Wayne High...

Lane twins ready to wipe out

All it took were two cases of whiplash and a week's worth of hobbling around, barely able to walk, but on Thursday, Wayne County will find out if the Lane twins' latest adventure was worth it. Appearing on ABC's...