Cherry-Point News

A fallen sign at the intersection of Brown Boulevard and North Shepard Street in Havelock is under water because of heavy rains today.

The murder trial of former Cherry Point Marine Gary Hayes was abruptly stopped Tuesday morning.

Monday was a pivotal day of testimony in the Gary Lamont Hayes murder trial. Hayes took the stand and admitted that he was drunk when he pumped three slugs from a .12-gauge shotgun into Odell Foster in the early morning hours of April 26, 2008, outside the Bayside Restaurant in Havelock.

With Veterans Day approaching, students at Calvary Baptist Church School honored retired and active military personnel in a ceremony held in the church sanctuary on Thursday.

The Carteret County Veterans Council will host its annual Veterans Day Parade Saturday in Morehead City.

Marine Corps officials confirmed today that accused serial killer Anthony Sowell was stationed once at Camp Lejuene and twice at Cherry Point during his military career.

The New Bern and Havelock high school marching bands performed this afternoon at the Crystal Coast Band Classic at Havelock High School.

Modern technology makes warfare more fast-paced, efficient and deadly, but the ever-present confusion or a oefoga of battle still causes inadvertent deaths of friendly forces and civilians.

Marines learned lessons about warfare in an outdoor setting Friday at the New Bern Civil War Battlefield.

Eleven nations are training in Eastern Carolina to improve the way they accomplish missions together.

The flight line at Cherry Point air station could have been called pit lane Thursday as some of the fastest fighter jets in the world came in as part of Exercise Bold Quest 2009.

School officials hope to revive plans for the alternative Early College East school with a grant aimed at helping grow the state's aerospace manufacturing workforce.

Warfighters from the United States and 10 allied nations will assess coalition combat identification systems during a U.S. Joint Forces Command exercise Oct.

The day after CarolinaEast Medical Center officially opened a new 37-bed expansion, members of its administration, staff and hospital board started looking for money to enlarge its emergency room and maternity facilities.

Out of tragedy, Jewel Wall found his voice. He was 12 years old on Feb. 2, 1979, the day his father killed his mother and then committed suicide.

The lights came on in the Greenfield Heights Subdivision at about 10:50 a.m. Thursday as power companies restored electricity to the last of more than 18,000 customers from Havelock to Altantic.

Updated at 10:40 a.m. Power is returning to the east end of Havelock this morning following a Progress Energy transmission outage at 2:30 a.m. In all, the outage affected about 16,000 power customers in Carteret and Craven counties, including about 4,300 in the Havelock area.

Editor's Note: With the city election set for Nov. 3, the Havelock News had all four candidates for mayor answer the same basic questions for these profiles.

Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point is in the running to house the consolidation of several Marine Corps anti-terrorism units, along with two military bases in Virginia.

Graham A. Barden Elementary School students can now run around in a dry circle instead of muddy oval.