Monday, April 7, 2014
Checking on Mount Olive library
MOUNT OLIVE -- Since November, Mount Olive residents have listened in anticipation as the sound of hammers and drills rang out from the interior of the old Belk building at Chestnut and Main. And Steele Memorial head librarian Melanie...Published: Apr 7, 2014 2:08 PM Full Story
Officials eye prison
The old two-story story brick building at the shuttered Wayne Correctional Center survived Hurricane Hazel in 1954. Whether it survives Wayne County's dream of turning it into a jail remains to be seen. And if it does, it could...Published: Apr 7, 2014 2:08 PM Full Story
Mount Olive officer clipped at checkpoint
MOUNT OLIVE -- A Mount Olive police officer narrowly escaped injury recently when the driver of a pickup truck suddenly accelerated as the officer was preparing to arrest him at a traffic checkpoint. The officer's name was not disclosed...Published: Apr 7, 2014 2:08 PM Full Story
Man shot in back on Ash Street
A Dudley man was shot in the back early Friday morning in the Save More parking lot located at 1903 E. Ash St. Reginald Donnell Price Jr., 23, of 103 Barnwell Road, Dudley, reported that he was shot in...Published: Apr 7, 2014 2:08 PM Full Story
County to begin retreat, talk goals
Wayne County commissioners are expected to spend all day Tuesday talking about the county budget, their search for a new county manager, and state legislative issues during a planning retreat at Walnut Creek Country Club. The retreat, which will...Published: Apr 7, 2014 2:08 PM Full Story
Driver hurt in bus crash
SEVEN SPRINGS -- A Wayne County Public Schools bus driver was charged with failure to yield after a two-vehicle accident early this morning in the area of the intersection of N.C. 55 and Drummersville Road near Seven Springs. Ken...Published: Apr 7, 2014 2:08 PM Full Story
WCC students inducted into honor society
Wayne Community College's Upsilon Chi chapter of Phi Theta Kappa, the international honor society for two-year colleges, has inducted 41 students into its membership in its spring 2014 ceremony. Phi Theta Kappa members represent the top 10 percent of students...Published: Apr 7, 2014 2:08 PM Full Story
UMO student art show April 17
MOUNT OLIVE -- The opening reception for the annual spring Student Art Show is Thursday, April 17 from 4 to 6 p.m. at the Teresa Pelt Grubbs Fine Arts Gallery and Laughinghouse Hall Student Gallery. The show will be...Published: Apr 7, 2014 2:08 PM Full Story
Forum on 'prison complex' held
The second forum on the "Prison Industrial Complex" put last week by the African-American Caucus of the state Democratic Party drew a much larger crowd than the first forum held in February. Wayne County Sheriff Larry Pierce and Maj....Published: Apr 7, 2014 2:08 PM Full Story