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Ready to Relay: Teams are set for battle against cancer

If you see Santa and his elves around the Christmas tree in the summer, Dorothy and all her friends from "The Wizard of Oz" or Scooby-Doo's van, you know you're in the right place for some serious fundraising to...

Stamp Out Hunger aids local families

Wayne County postal workers collected twice as much food as expected during their recent Stamp Out Hunger food drive. Postal workers had hoped to collect 16,000 pounds of food this year, but when it was weighed, the total was...

Man shot along city street

Goldsboro police do not yet have a suspect in the investigation of a shooting death outside a residence in the 100 block of Ervin Drive late Tuesday. Doral Deangelo Best, 42, died lying in a ditch in front of...

Council to seek money to widen Berkeley

The city of Goldsboro's Berkeley Boulevard widening project could receive a nearly interest free $636,187 loan through Wayne County. The county is administering loans from North Carolina's Eastern Region Trust Fund. The money would not speed up the project,...

Candid camera: Wildlife style

A Tri-County Electric Bright Ideas grant has given a class of seventh-graders at Wayne Country Day School the opportunity to combine a study of environmental and ecological science with North Carolina history. Cathie Hooks said her students set up...

City has plenty set for summer

Summer in downtown Goldsboro kicks off this week with the first of the annual Center Street Jams on Thursday evening. The band Spare Change will lead off the concert series. Also, on Saturday, the grand opening of the downtown...

No changes in final results from primary

No surprises or changes turned up during Tuesday morning's canvass of the May 6 primary. "It went fine," Wayne County Elections Director Rosemary Blizzard said. "Everybody balanced out. Nobody showed up. It was just us, and we were done...