Changes in store for the Post Office
The U.S. Postal Service will cut Saturday mail delivery in August to combat a $15.9 billion loss this past fiscal year, one of several changes instituted by the agency related to its deficits....
View ArticleAudio: B.J. Murphy discusses his big decision and the Dana King/Board of...
On this week’s edition of The Free Press Radio Show, Bryan Hanks and Jon Dawson are joined by Kinston Mayor B.J. Murphy, who talks about a variety of subjects, including his decision not to run for...
View ArticleCouple charged with toddler's death in N.C.
(AP) -- A South Carolina couple has been arrested and charged in the death of their toddler when they lived in North Carolina last year. Mooresville police arrested 22-year-old Nicholas Burnette...
View ArticleKinston arrest reports
The following arrests were reported by the Kinston Dept. of Public Safety: Otis Devon King, 33, 801 College St., Kinston, Jan. 19, felony hit and run, misdemeanor driving while license revoked....
View ArticleDistrict court decisions
The following decisions were reached in Lenoir County district court in Jan, 2013. The presiding judge was the Hon. Les Turner. Matters may be resolved as the result of a guilty plea or dismissal...
View ArticleKathleen Parker: Four Burmese women take wing
WASHINGTON — When Burma’s Zin Mar Aung was placed in solitary confinement for trying to organize students in 1999, Bill Clinton was president of the United States. When she was released, Barack Obama...
View ArticleSenate Republicans would pack after unpacking
For too many years to count, North Carolina’s boards and commissions have been packed — largely by Democrats because they were in charge for so long — with friends, campaign contributors, assorted...
View ArticleZipper, former ‘First Dog’ of North Carolina, dies
NEW BERN — February has been a tough month for political pooches. Zipper, a Tibetan terrier belonging to former Gov. Bev Eaves Perdue and her husband, Bob Eaves, died this week in New Bern after a...
View ArticleFirst blacks to join Marines honored
HAVELOCK — Retired Marine Master Sgt. Johnnie Thompkins remembers when he decided he wanted to join the Marine Corps as a young man growing up in Winston-Salem. “I was shining shoes on the street...
View ArticleOtis Gardner: Desire for more Discovery and less MTV
My little columns are personal conversations about stuff that interests me. I know those interests are often at wide variance with those of my readers. That variance is very much in evidence this...
View Article60 years of ‘Pink Ladies’
Fran Parker and Trudie Hartsell remember the “Pink Ladies.” Hartsell, 87, was one of them — often called candy stripers — before the newer Lenoir Memorial Hospital was built in 1973. Parker brought a...
View ArticleLenoir Board of Elections expenses reviewed
All Lenoir County Board of Elections expenses now have the stamp of the county manager. At the meeting of the board Friday morning, Board of Elections Director Dana King said in response to a question...
View ArticleSales tax gets new life
Twice killed, the quarter-cent Lenoir County sales tax is back from the dead. N.C. Rep. George Graham, D-Lenoir, filed a bill Thursday giving Lenoir County commissioners the authority to impose a...
View ArticleAiry Grove has Laity Sunday
Airy Grove Christian Church enjoyed Laity Sunday Jan. 13.The guest speaker was Marcia Stout. The women of the church handled all aspects of the service for that day, which required utilizing abilities...
View ArticleMinister's Column: Marriage needs a ‘God kind of love’
February is the month that Valentine’s Day is in. Because of Valentine’s Day, February is looked upon by some to be a month of love. One of the greatest expressions of love experienced by human beings...
View ArticleMeredith chief, county native addresses Rotary / Names in the news
Meredith chief, county native addresses Rotary Dr. Jo Allen returned home Jan. 24 to brief the Kinston Rotary Club on developments at Meredith College, where the La Grange native is president. Allen,...
View ArticleDixon sweeps Jones Senior
Franlena Brimage scored 16 points and Latrina Gatling added 14 but Jones Senior failed to record its first Coastal Plains 1A Conference win of the season in a 53-48 loss at Dixon on Friday. Ashley...
View ArticleSL thumps Swansboro
DEEP RUN — South Lenoir has made a habit of getting off to slow starts this season. There was nothing slow about the way the Blue Devils played Friday night. Ishmael Baldwin scored 28 points and...
View ArticleNL boys knock off Eastern Wayne
LA GRANGE — In a game featuring a pair of teams very familiar with one another, North Lenoir edged Eastern Carolina 3A Conference foe Eastern Wayne 78-75. The win served as a stopgap of sorts, as...
View ArticleKinston boys, girls handle Greene Central
SNOW HILL — It wasn’t as bad as last time, but it was still pretty bad. Kinston mauled Greene Central by 60 points in the previous encounter between the Eastern Plains 2A Conference rivals. On...
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