Kidnap victims are still missing

Two Goldsboro men were kidnapped at gunpoint Sunday night after the vehicle in which they were traveling was stopped by suspects who used a blue light to pull them over, deputies with the Wayne County Sheriff's Office said today....

Published: Jan 30, 2012 1:46 PM Full Story

County netted 468 jobs in 2011

Expansion at 15 Wayne County companies created 605 jobs and made $56.3 million in new investments in the county during 2011. Those gains were offset somewhat by the closing of four companies and the loss of 137 jobs for...

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Game summit planned for this weekend at Wayne Community College

Britt Griffith of the SyFy channel's "Ghost Hunters" program and officials with Penny Dreadful Productions, an Atlanta-based production company, will make the keynote presentation this weekend at the seventh annual Carolina Games Summit at Wayne Community College. Building on the...

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Gastroenterologist joins Wayne Health's new clinic

As a child growing up in Virginia, Stewart Futch was a typical boy, scoping out frogs in his backyard. His mother, a career nurse, always encouraged him to enter medicine. But perhaps what really sealed his fate was being named...

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Ceremony recognizes Tuscarora Council's newest Eagle Scouts

Nearly 70 young men gathered at the Southern Bank Auditorium on Mount Olive College's campus Sunday to be recognized for earning the rank of Eagle Scout during the Tuscarora Council's annual recognition event. The four-county council also honored three...

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Inmate in court to void death penalty

A Goldsboro man on death row for the 1989 murder of a co-worker during a robbery was scheduled to be in Wayne County Superior Court today seeking reprieve under a 2001 state law that prohibits anyone who is mentally...

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