Inaugural ‘Second Sunday Series’ to feature classic love songs
A collection of love songs, setting the mood for Valentine’s Day, will be performed Sunday by a trio well honed in performance. The first concert of the Second Sunday Series — sponsored by the...
View ArticleOral history event celebrates Black History Month
In days gone by, much time was spent on front porches or in the yard under shade trees telling and listening to stories. These were history lessons of the people, the land, the times, and often...
View ArticleColumn: La Grange man wakes up with body on his face
According to Stevie Wonder, superstition ain’t the way. Far be it from me to question the guy who wrote “For Once in My Life,” but he might have been wrong about the superstition thing. When Tax...
View ArticleLenoir County Schools mulling bus tracking program
Lenoir County Schools is moving one step closer to ensuring student safety — via bus routes, this time. Brent Williams, executive director of operations, and Anthony Mitchell, transportation director,...
View ArticleMan charged in Beulaville homicide investigation
BEULAVILLE — Police in the small town of Beulaville remained tight-lipped Wednesday about the shooting death of a man there Tuesday night. Max Alan Turner, 52, has been charged with an open count of...
View ArticleElections director under fire
Firing a county board of elections director is a legal matter in North Carolina. The law spells out, in specifics, what the county board must do, along with tasks of the State Board of Elections and...
View ArticleLancers open with sweep
It wasn’t easy and it wasn’t pretty, but any way you dissect it, Lenoir Community College’s season-opening doubleheader with the N. C. Wesleyan junior varsity squad was this: two wins. The Lancers...
View ArticleCrafford headed to Air Force
AYDEN — Hunter Crafford wants to earn his wings. He’s going to play football while he does. Crafford, a 2012 graduate of Ayden-Grifton, signed his certificate of intent to play football at the U.S....
View ArticleBaird headed to Wingate
LA GRANGE — Caleb Baird really really wanted to kick a football in college. Wingate University was the only school that really really wanted Baird, so he took it up on its offer. Baird, North...
View ArticleKeyes headed to N.C. A&T
Considering the workload on and off the playing field, being a two-sport college athlete is rare. So is doing so while playing one with a sibling. Denzel Keyes gets to do both. Keyes, a 6-foot-6,...
View ArticleN.C. lawmakers propose 'Opossum Right-to-Work Act'
By MICHAEL BIESECKER and GARY D. ROBERTSON (AP) — With North Carolina's legislature taking up a bill involving the fate of captive marsupials, a pair of lawmakers figured they might as well have...
View ArticleN.C. county sells seized guns to buy ammo
(AP) -- The Currituck County Sheriff's Office plans to trade-in two dozen weapons seized in crimes to buy ammunition. The Virginian-Pilot of Norfolk reports the guns range from shotguns to two...
View ArticleGeorge Will: In politics, power is currency
WASHINGTON — The arguments against a constitutional amendment to require balanced budgets are various and, cumulatively, almost conclusive. Almost. The main arguments are: The Constitution should be...
View ArticleWrong message sent on Medicaid
No one expected North Carolina’s Republican governor and North Carolina’s Republican majority in the General Assembly to agree on everything; but in the first week of the legislative session, the...
View ArticleVikings going for title No. 7
The number “7” has many representations in life, such as luck and completion. For Kinston’s boys basketball team, it represents dominance. The Vikings can claim their seventh consecutive conference...
View ArticleKinstonian wins Gatton award / Names in the news
Kinstonian wins Gatton award Kinston native David Waller was presented the 2013 T. Harry Gatton Award Jan. 12 in Raleigh. The award is given annually by the Raleigh Civil War Roundtable to an...
View ArticleWoman charged with more than 50 felony counts
TRENTON — It didn’t take too long for Jones County law enforcement to track down Samantha M. Bowser, 26, after receiving calls about identity theft from one of her alleged victims. Bowser was arrested...
View ArticleRetail Notebook: Plaza pet store is simply Fin-Tastic
Debbie and Stan Hauter were once avid scuba divers, catching tropical fish to sell. Now they own their own pet store, Fin-Tastic. “I’ve been a diver since I was 16,” Stan said. The couple moved to...
View ArticleSitting down with the mayor
On Thursday, Kinston Mayor B.J. Murphy joined Free Press Managing Editor Bryan Hanks and Columnist Jon Dawson on The Free Press Radio Show to discuss a variety of topics following Murphy’s...
View ArticleDetails emerge in Beulaville homicide case
BEULAVILLE — The three people who best know what circumstances led to a Fountaintown man being shot dead in downtown Beulaville earlier this week aren’t talking. One is dead. Graham Jamie Fountain,...
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