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By order of Superior Court Judge Wayland Sermons, the Beaufort County Detention Center was reopened for operation at 12:00 p.m. on September 13, 2013. The Sheriff’s Office immediately began to return inmates to the facility in a systematic repopulation process.
Published: Saturday, September 14th, 2013 @ 10:20 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Mr. Gillespie Carl "Bud" Stallings, age 87, a former resident of Griffin-Hodges Road, Old Ford community Washington, died Wednesday, September 11, 2013 at Ridgewood Manor in Washington.
Published: Saturday, September 14th, 2013 @ 9:12 am
By: Announcements
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Diane Marie Clark Horton, 65 of 3845 Camp Leech Road, died Friday, September 13, 2013 in Vidant Beaufort Hospital.
Published: Saturday, September 14th, 2013 @ 9:07 am
By: Announcements
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George Washington Jones, 93, of Washington, formerly of Vandemere, died on Thursday, September 12, 2013 at the River Trace Nursing and Rehabilitation Center.
Published: Saturday, September 14th, 2013 @ 9:04 am
By: Announcements
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Lt. Col. (ret) Kenneth Brown Wheeler, 70, of Greenville and Bath died Thursday, September 12, 2013.
Published: Saturday, September 14th, 2013 @ 8:55 am
By: Announcements
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We will offer this allotment of three with more to come; some old, most new, but all quite informative, and, moreover, necessary to understanding that in North Carolina, there is a wiser path to govern ourselves and our People.
Published: Friday, September 13th, 2013 @ 5:38 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Internet commerce is the ultimate creative destroyer: the Web's immediacy, flexibility, and ability to eliminate the fixed costs of "brick-and-mortar" outlets has humbled a multitude of traditional commercial enterprises. It draws modern entrepreneurs the way new finds of gold drew adventurers in...
Published: Friday, September 13th, 2013 @ 5:35 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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Two management professors in the College of Business retired on the exact same day this fall, ending more than four decades of combined teaching at East Carolina University.
Published: Friday, September 13th, 2013 @ 3:15 pm
By: ECU News Services
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We've got a unique situation here in Moore County. We are one of the most reliably Republican counties in the state. Yet, our only local paper is owned and operated by the same Democrat operatives who owned and operated The Raleigh News & Observer for years.
Published: Friday, September 13th, 2013 @ 3:13 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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Governor Pat McCrory has requested a federal disaster declaration to help 16 counties and the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians recover from this summer's heavy rains, landslides and severe flooding.
Published: Friday, September 13th, 2013 @ 2:45 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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On September 11, 2013, the Beaufort County Sheriff’s Office Drug Unit arrested Leo Gordon Huggins, age 61, of 690 Old Pamlico Beach Road in Belhaven.
Published: Friday, September 13th, 2013 @ 1:34 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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William Earl Lewis, Jr., age 50, passed away Friday, September 13, 2013 at Jefferson Memorial Hospital in Jefferson City, TN.
Published: Friday, September 13th, 2013 @ 11:05 am
By: Announcements
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The Barker-Moore House, also known simply as the Barker House, is currently home to the Edenton Historical Commission and is open to the public for tours.
Published: Friday, September 13th, 2013 @ 9:07 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Mrs. Evelyn West Bell, 51, of 1042 Pamlico Beach Road, Belhaven, died Wednesday, Sept. 11, 2013, at Vidant Pungo Hospital, Belhaven.
Published: Friday, September 13th, 2013 @ 8:45 am
By: Announcements
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Mr. Kenneth Brown Wheeler, 70, of Greenville and Bath, died Thursday, Sept. 12, 2013.
Published: Friday, September 13th, 2013 @ 8:24 am
By: Announcements
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Mrs. Veda Bryan Tetterton Johnson, age 97, a resident of Aurora, N.C., died Thursday, September 12, 2013 at Grantsbrook Nursing Center in Grantsboro, N.C.
Published: Thursday, September 12th, 2013 @ 11:13 pm
By: Announcements
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Rob Christensen of the News & Observer recently published an article in which he claims to uncover "the truth" behind 10 "myths" about North Carolina state government.
Published: Thursday, September 12th, 2013 @ 11:04 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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Don't look now, but North Carolina's long-maligned highway system is showing signs of significant improvement.
Published: Thursday, September 12th, 2013 @ 10:56 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Joey Perry goes through several pairs of tennis shoes each year. It's easy to do when you're responsible for every painted inch at Bagwell Field in Dowdy-Ficklen Stadium.
Published: Thursday, September 12th, 2013 @ 10:53 pm
By: ECU News Services
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In a unanimous opinion, the state's second highest court struck down as unconstitutional a state law prohibiting registered sex offenders from accessing social media sites such as Facebook.
Published: Thursday, September 12th, 2013 @ 9:58 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Washington-based organization, Angels N Camo is one of 250 finalists in Toyota's 100 Cars for Good program, which will award vehicles to 100 nonprofit organizations based on votes from the public beginning Oct. 1, 2013.
Published: Thursday, September 12th, 2013 @ 9:31 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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I have to award the state elections board a split decision on their Watauga and Pasquotank county rulings yesterday.
Published: Thursday, September 12th, 2013 @ 8:20 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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I spoke with a well-placed Tea Party activist based in The Second Congressional District who confirmed for me what has been one of the region's worst kept secrets for some time: Renee Ellmers is getting a primary opponent.
Published: Thursday, September 12th, 2013 @ 6:59 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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Lifelong Learning! Come and learn!!
Published: Thursday, September 12th, 2013 @ 6:55 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Among recent headlines, the student government at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill deliberately cut the budget of College Republicans to prevent the group from bringing two speakers to campus, Fox News contributor Katie Pavlich and filmmaker Ann McElhinney, whom student government...
Published: Thursday, September 12th, 2013 @ 6:44 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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100,000 new residents call North Carolina home each year. From 1990 to 2010, our population grew by 44 percent and vehicle travel increased 63 percent.
Published: Thursday, September 12th, 2013 @ 5:43 pm
By: Tom Campbell
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Mr. G.C. “Bud” Stallings, age 87, a resident of 487 Griffin-Hodges Road, Old Ford community, Washington died Wednesday, September 11, 2013.
Published: Thursday, September 12th, 2013 @ 3:48 pm
By: Announcements
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A friend of mine recently sent me an article from Area Development, one of many magazines that issues annual ratings of state business climates. According to Area Development's 2013 index, North Carolina is the fifth-best state in the nation to do business.
Published: Thursday, September 12th, 2013 @ 2:59 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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"We have the opportunity to transform our culture of government through a top-to-bottom assessment of efficiency, effectiveness and more than anything else, a culture of customer service." These were the most important words of Governor Pat McCrory's inaugural address.
Published: Thursday, September 12th, 2013 @ 2:58 pm
By: Thom Goolsby
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The N.C. Department of Health and Human Services is highlighting programs across the state that aim to reduce the prevalence of suicide as part of National Suicide Prevention Week.
Published: Thursday, September 12th, 2013 @ 2:53 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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They filed a lawsuit against Governor McCrory for signing common sense election reforms into law, and now have they want to pull the Civitas Institute into their lawsuit like some kind of co-conspirator.
Published: Thursday, September 12th, 2013 @ 1:37 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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Word is out on the street that Charlotte area pastor - and Southern Baptist Convention player - Mark Harris will formally announce his campaign for US Senate on October 2.
Published: Thursday, September 12th, 2013 @ 8:25 am
By: Brant Clifton
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A settlement touted by North Carolina Attorney General Roy Cooper on Sept. 3 as a “win” for investors victimized by two questionable developments on the North Carolina coast promises to provide only pennies-on-the-dollar restitution to those who lost money in the transactions.
Published: Wednesday, September 11th, 2013 @ 9:25 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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