Tuesday, May 6, 2014
Deal is reached on new schools
The Wayne County Board of Education and Wayne County Board of Commissioners have reached a compromise over how to finance and construct two new middle schools. The deal ends a months-long, and sometimes terse, war of words between the...Published: May 6, 2014 1:46 PM Full Story
Man with Goldsboro ties pleads to two counts, second-degree murder
RALEIGH -- Ray Rouse IV pleaded guilty Monday to two counts of second-degree murder in the death of an elderly couple in Raleigh. Rouse, 35, also pleaded guilty to drunken driving. He was sentenced to between 10 and 13...Published: May 6, 2014 1:46 PM Full Story
At the polls
Chief judge Blair Elliot and poll worker Bobby Jones insert a ballot into an electronic counter from a curbside voter this morning at WAGES on Royall Avenue. Wayne County voters took to the polls today to cast ballots in...Published: May 6, 2014 1:46 PM Full Story
Teen to face murder charge
Greene County investigators had to look no further than the Wayne County Jail to locate a Goldsboro teen they say is guilty of a Greene County murder. Derejay Williams Speede, 17, of 129 Mill Creek Road, is being held...Published: May 6, 2014 1:46 PM Full Story
Gurley to retire to take seat on commission
County Republicans nominated Joe Gurley, the longtime director of the Wayne County Emergency Services Department, Monday night to fill the unexpired term of former county commissioner Steve Keen. Keen represented District 4 on the board of commissioners until he...Published: May 6, 2014 1:46 PM Full Story
Council eyes city budget
No increase in utility or solid waste treatment fees. No funding for WAGES. And no new taxes -- unless, of course, the city's $18.9 million Parks and Recreation bond passes today. The Goldsboro City Council got its first look...Published: May 6, 2014 1:46 PM Full Story
Former GHS principal Burden named to seat
The Wayne County Board of Education Monday night appointed retired Goldsboro High School principal Patricia Burden to complete the unexpired District 3 term of the late Thelma Smith. There was no public discussion by the board, or comments from...Published: May 6, 2014 1:46 PM Full Story
Woman, passenger robbed at gunpoint
Goldsboro police are investigating an armed robbery that took place in the 600 block of Isler Street just after 9 p.m. Monday. According to a Goldsboro police report, Andrea Shanquel Broadie, 23, of Hugh Street, gave two men a...Published: May 6, 2014 1:46 PM Full Story
Kinston man is facing drug charges after stop
A Kinston man faces drug charges in Wayne County following a traffic stop Monday. Braxton Hunter Spence, 20, of 3536 En Dickerson Road in Kinston, is charged with possession with intent to sell and deliver methamphetamine and possession of...Published: May 6, 2014 1:46 PM Full Story