Greenville News Archives

Halloween celebrations are set for this weekend and for one city in the east, it's one of the busiest for time for police officers.

Millions of dollars are given to four feline charities here in North Carolina from the generosity of a compassionate cat-lover. Emil Campbell from Raleigh left nearly 1.7 million dollars to four different cat charities in North Carolina.

The Kinston Department of Public Safety has charged a man with three felonies in relation to an alleged sexual incident that was reported during early March.

Greenville police are investigating a shooting that happened outside a grocery store late Monday night.

As a social worker for the blind and visually impaired, Barbara Hansen taught people tricks for organizing paper money, identifying coins, or writing checks so they could do the things they thought they would no longer be able to do.

Municipal officials and state officials took to Greenville for the first time in its annual conference's history.

" One person was severely injured in a three-vehicle crash near here Monday afternoon.

Greenville Boulevard and 10th Street is again open for traffic after two different accidents shut it down for about an hour.

Thursday's Brown Bag Lunch and Learn "Navigating H1N1" was a timely event as it came on the heels of Onslow County's first H1N1 related death.

Greenville police are looking for a missing 11-year-old girl. The child, Nijulum Brown, was reported missing Tuesday.

A truck stop on Interstate 95 has joined a handful of locations in North Carolina offering truckers the energy-saving option of plugging in their trucks instead of running their engines overnight.

A California wireless phone company has applied for a federal grant to bring broadband service to remote areas along North Carolina's coast.

Patients taking cholesterol-lowering statin drugs may have better results and lower procedure costs when having a common operation for repairing a bulging aorta, according to a new study presented at the 95th annual Clinical Congress of the American College of Surgeons.

Police have named a suspect in a weekend armed robbery of a cafe. Maurice Moore of North Meade Street in Greenville is wanted for the Saturday holdup of J&K Cyber Cafe on Memorial Drive.

Some of the area's leading medical experts are getting together in Pitt County Thursday, to give you the opportunity to learn more about the flu.

A South Carolina shopper's court battle with Target Corp. has ended. The Greenville News reported Thursday that a federal appeals court has dismissed the national retailer's request to overturn a jury's $3 million award for Rita Cantrell.

Deputies said that a man used a note to hold up a Greenville-area bank on Tuesday morning.

Four officers have resigned from the Greenville Police Department as the federal government investigates the department.

Police said that a suspicious package was found near an entrance at Greenville Memorial Hospital on Tuesday afternoon.

There is a strong Eastern North Carolina connection with the Singing Sergeants, the official chorus of the U.S. Air Force.

A Greenville man was wrongly arrested, taken 160 miles away and jailed for a week.

Donating money for a good cause that helps victims of crime was the theme Saturday and Sunday for Pitt County law enforcement.

Women with disabilities are invited to a peer support group meeting in Greenville.

Authorities say a 44-year-old North Carolina man spent a week in jail because he has the same name of a suspect 23 years younger.

A leak of commercial-grade ammonia at PCS Phosphate sent 17 workers to area hospitals Friday.

A motorcycle accident just outside of Greenville shut down a busy intersection Thursday afternoon.

Two North Carolina-based soldiers and a bride have pleaded guilty to marriage fraud, saying they were part of a scheme to boost the soldiers' housing allowance and gain U.S. citizenship for the women.

A bicycle rider was taken to a local hospital after troopers said the bike was hit by a tractor-trailer early Wednesday morning.

Two summers ago, when Patricia Suttle brought youth from her church in Garner to The Refuge, a Christian camp in Greene County, there were no cabins, no bath house and no dining hall.

A suspect is in custody Tuesday for an attempted armed robbery in a Greenville apartment complex parking lot.

When Col. Randy Glover learned this summer he would lead the State Highway Patrol he turned to an individual who embodied the 80-year-old agency's tradition of honor and respect.

A Greenville restaurant was held up by two armed men early Sunday morning. It happened about 2:37 a.m. at Burger King located on 1702 Stantonsburg Road.

A fire in Greenville at what appears to be an abandoned building is under investigation this Tuesday morning.

The N.C. Department of Transportation is providing $250,000 in funding to create the next phase of the state's African American Music Trail.