Sunday, April 28, 2013
Clipping to cut cancer
Kids and adults alike gathered to have their heads shaved in the parking lot next to The Flying Shamrock on North John Street to raise money for the St. Baldrick's Foundation to fund childhood cancer research. The event began...Published: Apr 28, 2013 1:50 AM Full Story
A peck of pickle fun
MOUNT OLIVE -- In the center of Mount Olive beside a cage of hungry brown-haired goats, 4-year-old Kylee Whaley laughs as a clumsy goat thrusts its head through the fence boards and nibbles the food cupped in her tiny...Published: Apr 28, 2013 1:50 AM Full Story
Officials: Aycock future in hands of legislature
FREMONT -- The irony of Thursday's meeting to discuss the potential darkening of the Charles B. Aycock Birthplace while hundreds of school children ran around the grounds, exploring the historic site's 19th century history wasn't lost on the dozens...Published: Apr 28, 2013 1:50 AM Full Story
School volunteer becomes a father figure
Daniel Weeks has no children of his own at Goldsboro High School. But for many students there, he has become a father figure. The youth director at Bethel Church spent more than 375 hours at the school this past...Published: Apr 28, 2013 1:50 AM Full Story
The F-15E's brushes with fame
2004 -- Twenty-one 4th Fighter Wing F-15Es participate in a flyover for President Ronald Reagan's funeral. 2007 -- Former child star Barry Williams, who played Greg on "The Brady Bunch," gets a ride in a Seymour Johnson Air Force Base...Published: Apr 28, 2013 1:50 AM Full Story
N.C. Pickle Festival also celebrates new citizenship
Surrounded by family and friends, a group of 60 men and women raised their right hands and repeated the pledge of allegiance. But unlike a school classroom or government meeting, the crowd's repetition didn't sound like the standard drawl...Published: Apr 28, 2013 1:50 AM Full Story
More than 200 walk for MS, raising nearly $30,000
More than 200 people took part in the MS Walk sponsored by the Greater Carolinas Chapter of the National Multiple Sclerosis Society at Herman Park on April 20. Walk MS, presented by Biogen Idec, is an opportunity for individuals...Published: Apr 28, 2013 1:50 AM Full Story
He did not make it home
A deployed Air Force aviator is caught, by his comrades, watching a video inside a room used for mission planning. His 11-month-old son had just learned to walk. "I think he had just gotten it in the mail," the airman's...Published: Apr 28, 2013 1:50 AM Full Story
Strike Eagle: The specs
Mission The F-15E Strike Eagle is a dual-role fighter designed to perform air-to-air and air-to-ground missions. An array of avionics and electronics systems gives the F-15E the capability to fight at low altitude, day or night, and in all weather....Published: Apr 28, 2013 1:50 AM Full Story
A record of success
It's Election Day 2005 and Phil Smith is in the cockpit of one of the F-15E Strike Eagles circling the skies over Iraq. "It was pretty much to let the Iraqi people know, 'Hey. Don't be afraid to go to...Published: Apr 28, 2013 1:50 AM Full Story
In memoriam: Those who lost their lives in a Strike Eagle
* Capt. Francis "Piston" Imlay -- Imlay, a pilot assigned to the 391st Fighter Squadron, was killed March 28, 2012, when his aircraft crashed near a base in Southwest Asia. * Capt. Mark "Pitbull" McDowell -- McDowell, a pilot assigned...Published: Apr 28, 2013 1:50 AM Full Story
Only minutes left to save 17 comrades in arms ...
The blue sky had been consumed by the kind of gray that seemed to energize the insurgents operating near Coalition positions nestled in a valley not far from the Afghanistan/Pakistan border. A mortar attack had already unfolded -- a result,...Published: Apr 28, 2013 1:50 AM Full Story
Communities in Schools of Wayne County earns national accreditation
Communities in Schools of Wayne County has received national accreditation and is among the first to accomplish this of the nearly 200 local affiliates in the CIS network in 25 states and the District of Columbia. "Accreditation for us...Published: Apr 28, 2013 1:50 AM Full Story
Cherry honors volunteer of the year
Six awards were presented Thursday at the 10th annual Volunteer of the Year luncheon at Cherry Hospital. Four were the regular in-house recognitions, explained Tanya Rollins, director of special services, with two additional state awards incorporated this year from...Published: Apr 28, 2013 1:50 AM Full Story