N.C. plants may lose 1,300 jobs
BY EMERY P. DALESIO AP Business Writer RALEIGH, N.C. — Daimler Trucks North America warned Thursday that about 1,300 factory jobs could be lost in North Carolina and Oregon, reversing course a...
View ArticleState folds in lawsuit over 'Possum Drop'
By MICHAEL BIESECKER Associated Press Barring a change in state law, the annual New Year's Eve Possum Drop in the mountains of North Carolina will have to carry on without a live animal. The...
View ArticleKathleen Parker: Saving marriage the real battle
WASHINGTON — More than perhaps anyone else in America, David Blankenhorn personifies the struggle so many have experienced over same-sex marriage. First he was agnostic, then he was against it, now...
View ArticleOtis Gardner: 'The Blimp is Back' seems appropriate
Over 60 years ago, Dad was stationed with the Air Wing at El Toro in California. His squadron flew transports, mostly R4Ds. We lived in a rural area around Costa Mesa where I went to fifth and sixth...
View ArticleNCAA should rein in its own excesses, too
Over the past couple of years folks in North Carolina have become painfully aware of the governing body of college athletics, an organization known as the NCAA. Its investigative work into alleged...
View ArticleSaturday is Free Day at Tryon Palace
NEW BERN — Families have an opportunity to enjoy the Governor’s Palace, learn about cooking in the 1770s, mingle with Gov. Tryon’s Craven Militia, make a clay bowl and other activities at today’s...
View ArticleKids get bright smiles
About 21 school-age children wore brighter smiles by the end of the day Friday when they left Kinston Community Health Center’s dental clinic. The children were patients of the 10th annual “Give Kids...
View ArticleUnemployment continues upward trend
While Wall Street celebrates the Dow Jones Industrial Average’s highest close since 2007, job growth isn’t keeping pace with stock prices. The county breakdown of December unemployment rates in North...
View ArticleLCC enrollment changing directions
The Lenoir Community College curriculum enrollment drop isn’t what it seems. The numbers declined 12.6 percent in the fall and 10 percent in the spring, but LCC President Brantley Briley said more...
View ArticleA-G boys overcome Rosewood
AYDEN — Numbers can tell interesting stories. Friday night’s Carolina 1A Conference clash between Ayden-Grifton and Goldsboro Rosewood had plenty. Six ties. Eight lead changes. One...
View ArticleGC boys knock off Tarboro
A lot of futility came to an end for the Greene Central boys basketball team on Friday night. Joseph Biggs scored 23 points and the Rams defeated host Tarboro 88-80 to win its first league game of...
View ArticleKinston boys, girls dominate Farmville Central
FARMVILLE — One Kinston team clinched at least a share of the Eastern Plains 2A Conference regular season title and the other moved a step closer to that same goal. All in all, it was just a typical...
View ArticleTopsail overwhelms SL boys
DEEP RUN — The M.O. of South Lenoir’s boys basketball team this season has been to start out slow then get going late. Against Topsail the Blue Devils once again began cold. But this time, they...
View ArticleGeorge Will: Moral grandstanding won't pay the bills
WASHINGTON — Politics becomes amusing when liberalism becomes theatrical with high-minded gestures. Chicago’s government, which is not normally known for elevated thinking, is feeling so morally...
View ArticleJohn Hood: 'First in Freedom,' an agenda
RALEIGH — If your tenure in our state stretches back no further than the early 1980s, you may not be aware of the fact North Carolina’s license plates used to say “First in Freedom” rather than “First...
View ArticleLetters to the editor for Sunday, Feb. 3
Veterans Ball honors vets with a night of fun When a plan goes together so well, it may be divine providence. It can also reflect kind people in a caring community pulling together. Lenoir County’s...
View ArticleCity's planners need public's insight
Members of the Kinston City Council deserve praise for tackling the blight that has gone unchecked in the city for too many years. They also warrant close watching as they employ the power they can...
View ArticleClark : Teachers fuel school systems
The vast majority of children do not want to be at school. Period. When we examine problems in our schools, we must remember not to look at the problem through our older, hopefully wiser eyes but...
View ArticleHanks : Enjoy some baseball, support heroes
In three weeks, the boys of spring – and future and current American heroes – will be back in Kinston. The Freedom Classic, the brainchild of Kinston/Lenoir County Parks and Recreation Director Bill...
View Article‘Opening Night’
Eight Greensboro families are having extra feet under their dinner tables this week. One of these families also will have 15 extra heads sleeping under its roof — at least for one night. The full...
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