Kelly Column: Healthy Super Bowl favorites
Buffalo chicken, onion rings and pizza … all staples for a great Super Bowl party. Try making them a little lighter on the waistline this year by giving these recipes a try. Your guests will never...
View ArticleCommunity leader becomes Casino dealer / Names in the news
Community leader becomes Casino dealer A financial representative for 35 years with Northwestern Mutual Life and a life member of the Million Dollar Round Table, John Marston is becoming a Casino...
View ArticleRoundup: Frink boys win middle school title
Taji Moore scored 17 points and Frink Middle School defeated Greene County 51-47 Tuesday to capture the middle school conference championship. Rujon Walters and Kris Wooten added 14 points each for...
View ArticleSL sweeps Richlands
DEEP RUN — Jeremy Barnett didn’t have to say much to his South Lenoir boys basketball team following its narrow victory against Richlands on Tuesday. His body language spoke for him. Jonte Midgette...
View ArticleKinston boys, girls handle Beddingfield
Lydia Rivers crammed a week’s worth of production into four quarters and helped keep the Kinston girls basketball team unbeaten in the Eastern Plains 2A Conference. Rivers, a sophomore center,...
View ArticleA journey complete
DEEP RUN — David Combs has been a journeyman since graduating from Southern Wayne High School in 2006. Now the head baseball coach at South Lenoir, the two-sport star feels his journey is over....
View ArticleDisabled N.C. man accused of killing father
(AP) -- A disabled veteran has been accused of killing his 71-year-old father after a fight at a home in western North Carolina. Forty-four-year-old Michael Stephen Walker of Etowah is charged...
View ArticleScouts' future uncertain if ban on gays is dropped
DAVID CRARY, AP National Writer (AP) -- The Boy Scouts of America's proposed move away from its no-gays membership policy has outraged some longtime admirers, gratified many critics and raised...
View ArticleSuperior court decisions
The following decisions were reached in Lenoir County superior court in June, 2012. The presiding judge was the Hon. Marvin Blount. Matters may be resolved as the result of a guilty plea or...
View ArticleRestaurant ratings
The following restaurant inspection results were provided by the Lenoir County Health Department: Rightway 1050 W. New Bern Road, Kinston Score: 96 Inspection date: 11/6/12 Observations: Several...
View ArticleSevere weather update from National Weather Service
FROM THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEWPORT/MOREHEAD CITY NC: 2:55 PM WED JAN 30 2013 ...STRONG WIND GUSTS THIS AFTERNOON THROUGH EARLY THURSDAY... A SHARP COLD FRONT WILL APPROACH THE REGION...
View ArticleKinston High teacher resigns amid investigation
Nearly 30 Kinston High School students allegedly gave money to their teacher who promised a presidential inauguration trip that never happened. Students were charged $300 for the trip, although some...
View ArticleAlleged murderer costs Greene County a $31,188 medical bill
SNOW HILL — A Greene County Jail inmate, locked up on a murder charge, has created a whopping bill for the county’s already-drained budget. In going over revisions of the budget at the last county...
View ArticleColumn: ’Tis the season for selling steaks from a truck
Jobs of any kind are turning into a rare commodity. Whenever I see a grown man dressed as the Statue of Liberty in front of a Rent-A-Center I don’t mock — I salute. I salute not out of some jingoistic...
View ArticleFamily Literacy offers different GED experience
When Kia Foye started hanging with the “wrong crowd” in middle school, she didn’t realize how much it would jeopardize her education. She went from Rochelle Middle School to an alternative school,...
View ArticleEast Carolina Council, local Boy Scouts leaders react to possible gay ban lift
After Supreme Court action in 2000 and an affirmation of the ruling in July last year, the Boy Scouts of America are again having a discussion: Should gay scouts and leaders be admitted into the...
View ArticleCouple arrested after alleged false report, assault on deputy
You could call it a cautionary tale of allegedly pointing fingers in the wrong direction. Saturday at 4:15 p.m., a Lenoir County Sheriff’s Office deputy responded to a disturbance on the 2600 block of...
View ArticlePicks of the week
CASINO NIGHT/Kinston Lenoir Community College Foundation is sponsoring its first Casino Night from 7 to 10 p.m. Friday in the Waller Building’s Culinary Arts Center on the LCC campus. Tickets are $50...
View ArticleAlbum reviews: Ben Harper/Charlie Musselwhite and Count Basie
New album: Get Up! Artist: Ben Harper and Charlie Musselwhite Label: Concord/Stax Rating: 4 stars out of 5 Charlie Musselwhite and Ben Harper have spent their careers perfecting all types of...
View ArticleJ.Locke coming to Vernon Park Mall
A concert Saturday at the Vernon Park Mall promises singing, dancing and something for everyone. The big name is J.Locke, a North Carolina native who has generated interest around the country and on...
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