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Sunday, August 2, 2015

Public schools' Summer Institute set for this week

MOUNT OLIVE -- Wayne County Public Schools is hosting the 10th annual Summer Institute, a free conference for teachers and parents to usher in the new school year. The three-day event will take place in Raper Hall on the...

Arrests made in shooting

With their guns drawn, Goldsboro police Friday night surrounded a house on Brazil Street where two men had fled after allegedly shooting a third man in the leg. Police pounded on the front door and the two men, Fiante...

Legislators talk taxes at chamber breakfast

"We need to avoid all kinds of issues that create a urban-rural conflict," Dixon said. "When we talk about tax redistribution we need to be very careful. We do not want to get into a situation where we are having...

Vote on Muslim cemetery might be delayed

Goldsboro's city planning commission has recommended to delay a vote on a proposed rezoning near Fedelon Trail that would allow the Islamic Center of Goldsboro to construct a cemetery next to its place of worship. If Goldsboro City Council...

Medicaid issue tough, but needs attention, legislators say

There was agreement Friday by Wayne County's five-member legislative delegation that Medicaid reform is perhaps the thorniest issue they face. They agreed as well that it could keep them in Raleigh well past the time they had hoped to...

Goldsboro woman killed by 18-wheeler

A Goldsboro woman died Friday afternoon after she walked into the path of a tractor-trailer at the intersection of N.C. 111 South and Dollard Town Road. Carrol Ann Violette, 75, of 101 Biltmore Drive, was leaving a neighborhood store...

Goldsboro Housing Authority buys property, apartment building

Goldsboro is getting a new -- and refurbished -- low-income housing area. In a deal finalized May 27, the Goldsboro Housing Authority took sole ownership of the Walnut Street Schools Apartments at 508 E. Walnut St., as well as...

Child nearly drowns at Busco Beach

A quick-thinking bystander is being credited with pulling a young child from the waters at Busco Beach and performing CPR until emergency workers could arrive. Little information was available prior to press time Saturday night, but Wayne County Sheriff's...

City Council to meet Monday

Goldsboro City Council members will talk about Goldsboro Country Club, a park, a playground -- and chickens -- when they meet Monday night. Council members will face an agenda that includes nine work session items, three presentations, 10 consent...