Franklinton News

Entries in Autumn Arts 2009, the 34th annual juried art show sponsored by Vance-Granville Community College and the Kerr Lake Art Society, have been judged and are on display at Vance-Granville. The public is invited to view the artwork, which is on display on the second floor of Building 7 on the college's main campus in Vance County through Nov.

Even though the occasion is sad, there is something oddly bracing in setting out to write about a man who called himself "Soupy." We need more Soupys in this self-important, don't-you-dare-throw-that-pie world - and now there is one less, Soupy Sales having died Thursday at the age of 83.

Four 17-year-old boys are out on bond after being arrested for allegedly vandalizing Granville Central High School on Sunday morning, Granville County Sheriff Brin Wilkins said.

Arrests a Nannie C. Stovall, 46, of 505 Henderson St., Oxford, was booked Oct. 15. Two counts of failure to appear.

Soupy Sales, the rubber-faced comedian who made an art form out of taking a pie in the face and delighted a generation of Detroiters with his loopy TV show on Channel 7 in the 1950s, died Thursday night in New York.

Before issuing his sentence, Judge Rafael Diaz acknowledged many of the letters written to the court from gay rights groups and Hunter's family asking Diaz to sentence Hannah to the maximum 180 days.

Prosecutors have reached plea agreements with two more players in a complex, multi-million dollar over-the-counter drug ring, which has an epicenter in the Triangle and spans the East Coast.

Johnston Health's Clayton campus is poised for growth. CLAYTON Johnston County hospital leaders are putting the finishing touches on a plan that would deliver a $60 million, full-service hospital to the growing community of Clayton.

Years ago, Bob and Ginger Sykes' Turtle Mist Farm near Franklinton was home to an amusement park called Arkland.

Hundreds of frustrated concert-goers lined up for refunds after several advertised acts at a music festival on Saturday failed to show up.

If Cooper Stadium is turned into a motor speedway, mourners at the cemetery next door wouldn't be able to hear graveside services shouted 2 feet away.

Posted: Today at 6:26 p.m. Updated: Today at 6:27 p.m. Police have arrested seven people they said were connected with two separate theft rings targeting farm equipment in four counties.

Posted: Today at 6:26 p.m. Updated: Today at 6:27 p.m. Police have arrested seven people they said were connected with two separate theft rings targeting farm equipment in four counties.

A total of 40 communities in 31 counties have been awarded more than $45 million in stimulus funding for drinking water, stormwater and wastewater projects, Gov.

Richard "Dickie" Schock, who last year coached Orange High to its first football conference championship in 24 years, is returning to Rocky Mount as its football coach.

Parents of late Granville County girls to appeal suit dismissal BY WILLIAM F. WEST : The [Henderson] Daily Dispatch Jun 12, 2009 OXFORD -- A Superior Court judge has dismissed a lawsuit by the parents of two Granville County girls killed Dec.

Alamance County sheriff investigators have arrested a man they say was soliciting a child by computer.

The second annual Got To Be N.C. Festival, held May 29-31 at the State Fairgrounds in Raleigh, gave two area bluegrass bands reasons to celebrate.

Liberty Christian School has named Jeremy Cowin to be the school's next superintendent.

Pete Sullivan tends his one-acre lawn in North Raleigh with a riding mower. Back in his garage, there are four more machines, but none could cut a blade of grass.