Lenoir County is all about ‘Livability’
The Kinston-Lenoir County Chamber of Commerce has a new glossy magazine that online viewers can also read on the Web. Livability: Kinston-Lenoir County magazine, published by Journal Communications in...
View ArticleFINAL UPDATE: Tractor-trailer overturned on N.C. 11
An Ahoskie man will be charged with failing to maintain lane control after the tractor-trailer he was driving on N.C. 11 North overturned Tuesday at around 7:45 p.m. Douglas Berry Joyner, 50, was...
View ArticleWheelchair-bound man escapes fire
A man in a wheelchair escaped a fire that claimed much of his house Tuesday morning. The Lenoir County 911 center received a call at 4:04 a.m. of a fire at 1408 St. James Place and dispatched the...
View ArticleState law results in handicapped parking disparity
You can park in some handicapped spaces with near-impunity. Doesn’t seem to square with common knowledge, but it’s true. State law — specifically, General Statute 20-37.6 — which states the law...
View ArticleHistoric Powerball drawing today
It could be the seventh-largest lottery drawing of all time. According to the Associated Press, today’s $360 million Powerball jackpot would make the top 10 list of the world’s largest lottery...
View ArticleTop recruit Wiggins chooses Kansas
HUNTINGTON, W.Va. — Top prep basketball prospect Andrew Wiggins told a small gathering of family and friends at his high school gym Tuesday that he will play at Kansas. Then the Huntington Prep star...
View ArticleRoundup: APA's softball season ends, golf finishes fifth
Parrott Academy’s run at a third straight state softball title has come to an end. The Patriots were held to three hits and committed an uncharacteristic five errors in a 4-2 defeat at Charlotte...
View ArticleLancers’ season ends on high note
It wasn’t the ending Stony Wine had hoped for, but he’ll take it. Lenoir Community College was eliminated from the NJCAA Division II Region X tournament Monday night, but not before winning four...
View ArticleBlue Devils wallop Providence Grove, advance
DEEP RUN — South Lenoir punished visiting pitcher Sarah Smoot, literally and figuratively, and the Blue Devils cruised to a deceptively easy 10-2 triumph over Climax Providence Grove in the second...
View ArticleBig day for Rams
SNOW HILL — Greene Central will be well represented in 2013-14 college athletics. The school had four sign national letters of intent recently, and held a special ceremony for the quartet in its media...
View ArticleCrime/arrest reports
The following information was provided by the Kinston Dept. of Public Safety: On May 10, a woman on East Lenoir Avenue, Kinston, reported someone fired a gun into a vehicle at her residence. No...
View ArticleAlbum Reviews: Rod Stewart and Hank Mobley
New album: Time Artist: Rod Stewart Label: Capitol Rating: 2.5 stars out of 5 Having spent the better part of the last decade as a fairly successful Sinatra impersonator, Rod Stewart has dropped the...
View ArticleSnow Hill proposes no tax, utility rate increases, but employee raises
SNOW HILL — Town officials in Snow Hill appear to be satisfied with next year’s proposed budget. The commissioners made changes to the proposed 2013-14 budget in April and a public hearing was held...
View ArticleJones County gas mix-up resolved
TRENTON — A gas station manager said a fuel delivery mix-up is all clear after two state inspections. Nirmal Adhikry, the manager of the BP gas station on Jones Street in Trenton, said a delivery...
View ArticleSand in the Streets concerts to begin June 6
When the 10th season of the Sand in the Streets outdoor concert series takes off June 6, the Pearson Park stage will see 162 years of music making on tour by 40 musicians in the seven bands making up...
View ArticleShakespearean success story
Shakespeare took a Kinston High School senior to New York City this year. April Davis recently performed a sonnet and monologue in front of a big city crowd after winning first place in the local...
View Article125 days to celebrate 125 years
Northeast Elementary School was brushed by a Belk retail store service sweep this week. In efforts to celebrate the company’s 125th year, more than 300 southern stores are providing local school...
View ArticleRotarians learn about Project D.I.G. / Names in news
Rotarians learn about Project D.I.G. Project D.I.G. — a school-wide gardening and nutrition campaign that puts the school at the forefront of Lenoir County’s fight against childhood obesity — was the...
View ArticleColumn: IRS, DOJ raid Free Press office
At 8:01 a.m. on Wednesday, agents from the Internal Revenue Service and the U.S. Department of Justice executed search warrants on The Free Press building at 2103 N. Queen Street. “Based on...
View ArticleGunmen shoot multiple cars, two apartments
Between Friday and Monday, gunmen shot into six cars and two apartments. Two of the cars were occupied at the time. The gunplay kicked off at 635 E. Lenoir Ave. Friday, when someone used a handgun on...
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