Eureka News

Elliott R. Futrell received the award for "Outstanding Contribution to North Carolina Genealogical Society by a member" at the NCGS Annual Meeting, Nov.

Wayne County lawmen are asking for your help in finding a suspected robber. Thirty-nine year-old Tuwanna Sue Waters, who, according to lawmen, also goes by the last name Draper, is wanted for robbing Big Daddy's Gas and Grill in the Wayne County town of Eureka.

Election results for Eureka's mayor and two town board seats will not be confirmed by the Wayne County Board of Elections until Tuesday's canvass of the votes.

The Wayne County Sheriff's Office needs help finding a robbery suspect. On Sunday, Big Daddy's Gas and Grill, N.C. 222, Eureka, was the victim of a common law robbery.

In one eastern Carolina town it's anyone's guess who will be elected. The Wayne County town of Eureka has a way of doing things a little different when it comes to electing city officials.

The Town of Eureka ballot looks pretty bare. With three seats open -- the mayor and two commissioners -- there are no candidates listed at the Wayne County Board of Elections.

Only a handful of races have developed for this November's municipal and sanitary water district elections including ones for mayor in Mount Olive and Pikeville and another for the Pikeville town board.

Mike Smith and his niece, Morgan Smith, walk through rows of field corn Friday morning near Stomp Johnson produce stand on U.S. 13 North.

The start of the filing period for the county's November municipal and sanitary district board elections is less than a month away.