Havelock News

David Muse, the city engineer who has helped shepherd New Bern through more than a decade of growth and development, died suddenly Friday afternoon, apparently from a heart attack.

Havelock and the N.C. Department of Transportation are considering changes that may lead to a new left turn for motorists exiting Miller Boulevard to West Main Street.

A decision on the long-delayed sewer-service agreement between New Bern and Havelock will probably be one of the first things the newly elected aldermen will need to handle in January, New Bern City Attorney Scott Davis told his leaders this week.

Havelock Police Investigators are asking for information about 18 vehicle break-ins. All the break-ins happened during the evening and early morning hours of November 11 and 12.

A 74-year-old Newport man pleaded guilty to possession of child pornography on Wednesday in U.S. District Court in New Bern.

Janet Hatfield is not some free-ranging, motorcycle-riding radical. The bandana-wearing, elementary school-teaching grandmother just wants her chickens back.

Jorge Benitez is used to seeing the Havelock High band he directs win high honors.

Some easterners will pile into the car and drive 400 miles to get a glimpse of the colorful fall foliage in the Smokey Mountains.

The Onslow County Sheriff's Department has increased its concern in the case of a missing Hubert mother.

New Bern Vote by Precinct Precinct Registered Vote Percent Grantham 2B 1,876 748 39.87 George Street 2,394 589 24.6 Fort Totten 2,740 377 13.76 Grover C. Fields 1,998 449 22.47 H.J. MacDonald 4,169 583 13.98 West New Bern 4,565 1,170 25.63 Provisional 22 Mail Absentee 69 Curbside 36 Results are now official from Nov.

What two Jacksonville teens may have considered creative marketing, the Onslow County Sheriff's Department calls criminal.

Havelock residents may notice two new city trucks doing service on the streets this week.

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

A portion of N.C. 24 will be closed Friday for bridge maintenance, according to the North Carolina Department of Transportation.

Like any business, Havelock wants to be more customer friendly. The city's new one-stop Customer Service Center is scheduled to open on Nov.

With two commissioners and one mayor missing, the Havelock Board of Commissioners conducted limited business at its meeting on Monday night.

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.

Jacksonville authorities are investigating a bomb threat at the Wal-Mart at Western and Marine boulevards.

A Carteret County pair was charged over the weekend for stealing property from a home one of the suspects was watching for family members, authorities said.

A weekend dispute in Carteret County landed a man in jail for biting off part of another man's ear, authorities said.