Garner News

The North Carolina Department of Transportation says it is moving forward with the Complete 540 project in Wake County by once again studying all potential paths for the 540 Triangle Expressway from Holly Springs to Knightdale.

Police first closed N.C. 42 near Johnny Baker Road between Garner and Fuquay-Varina after a crash at 11 a.m. Firefighters worked to free a person trapped in a vehicle between a car and a tractor-trailer truck.

The 6-foot, nearly 300-pound jailer then handcuffed the limp, 5-foot 7-inch, 119-pound inmate and radioed for help.

On Dec. 5, someone broke into a home on Carrington Drive in the Cleveland community and stole $3,530 in property, including a Masonic ring, diamond ring and tablet computer.

Two women, Nicole Dozier and Denise Wilkie, were sworn into office. They are the first women to serve on the Apex Town Council in 12 years.

Officials arrested 18-year-old Joshua Blair Kearns, of Garner on Monday. He is charged with one felony count of disseminating material/performing a harmful act on a minor and one misdemeanor count of cyber stalking.

The partisan start to the new term was in keeping with the division that has marked the working of the board in recent years, and the split was again in evidence on some of the issues – including schools' land purchase and construction – that came before commissioners during a 4 1/2-hour meeting.

A raccoon that ventured into an electrical substation caused a power outage that shut down the UNC Asheville campus Monday.

The group met for the first time last month and discussed possible sites, including the Town Center area off Jeremiah Street and Town Hall Drive.

Goddard, 56, chose to retire so she could work part-time in her husband's law firm, Goddard & Peterson, in Raleigh.

Knightdale police say the suspect took money from Walmart stores in Knightdale, Garner and Raleigh in recent weeks.

Butterball apparently has big fat mystery on its hands: The company says it doesn't know why some of its turkeys wouldn't plump up in time for Thanksgiving this year.

By JOE BURNETTE A Spring Hope business is suffering due to confusion with another business with a similar name that moved into its former location.

The arrest came late Friday when drug investigators pulled over a 2001 Pontiac that they said Eleazar Guttierrez-Torres, 25, of 107 Rolling Ridge Circle in Garner was driving west on the highway near Capital Boulevard.

Whether it's turkey sausage for breakfast, turkey medallions on salad for lunch or roast turkey and gravy for dinner, Brenneman says he eats the bird at least once every day.

Butterball apparently has big fat mystery on its hands: The company says it doesn't know why some of its turkeys wouldn't plump up in time for Thanksgiving this year.

According to the state, making N.C. 55 a super street was supposed to be the answer.

CEO Rod Brenneman says in an interview with the AP that it's the first time it happened and that the company is investigating what went wrong.

Butterball apparently has big fat mystery on its hands: The company says it doesn't know why some of its turkeys wouldn't plump up in time for Thanksgiving this year.

Since 2007, Donny Hunter has served as the paid leader of a nonprofit association made up of trustees from the state's 58 community colleges.