Friday, June 29, 2012
916th deploys
Members of the 916th Air Refueling Wing board a KC-135R Stratotanker Thursday afternoon. More than 100 members of the storied Reserve wing are beginning tours in the Middle East and beyond this weekend....Published: Jun 29, 2012 1:46 PM Full Story
Many not happy with court vote
Barbecue plates weren't the only thing being chewed up by Thursday's lunch crowd at Wilber's Barbecue Restaurant -- so was the Supreme Court's hour-old 5-4 decision preserving a requirement of President Barack Obama's health care plan that requires Americans to...Published: Jun 29, 2012 1:46 PM Full Story
Yep. It's going to be a hot one
The National Weather Service has issued a heat advisory for today and an excessive heat warning for 6 a.m. Saturday until 11 p.m. Sunday for central North Carolina, including Wayne County, where dangerously hot conditions are expected. Temperatures are forecast...Published: Jun 29, 2012 1:46 PM Full Story
Workshop set for teachers, and parents
MOUNT OLIVE -- The seventh annual Wayne County Public Schools Summer Institute will take place at the end of next month, providing an opportunity for educators as well as parents to attend a free series of workshops in preparation for...Published: Jun 29, 2012 1:46 PM Full Story
Airmen get invite to fireworks
Some will watch them from their back porch. Others will see them explode above a North Carolina battleship. And many more will view, on television screens, the many fireworks displays that have become an Independence Day hallmark. But for...Published: Jun 29, 2012 1:46 PM Full Story
Thoughts from a different generation
TYLER DAVIS, 21 On the negative attention the Act has received in the media "I've found that those who are angry about it to be most people who didn't really understand it very well. I was reading about the cost-benefit...Published: Jun 29, 2012 1:46 PM Full Story
First Pentecostal Church holding Celebrate Freedom event Sunday
First Pentecostal Holiness Church in Goldsboro will have a special Celebrate Freedom event Sunday at its 9 and 10:45 a.m. services. The speaker will be Army Chaplain James Ward Jr., a Greensboro resident who has recently returned from a...Published: Jun 29, 2012 1:46 PM Full Story