Mount Olive News

A crew works to remove a fallen tree off the home of Tommy and Katrina Kornegay on Old Smithfield Road in Rosewood shortly after a severe thunderstorm passed through the area Wednesday afternoon.

Although students at Mount Olive College won't be moving into dormitories for the fall semester until August, a newcomer is settling in today on campus.

ANDY'S BURGERS SHAKES AND FRIES has opened in the Huffman Mill Plaza in Burlington.

This week's heat has Wayne County residents looking for any way they can to cool off.

Three illegal immigrants are behind bars following a busted prostitution ring in Duplin County, a case that is now being investigated by federal authorities for possible human trafficking and additional charges against the pimp in the operation.

Witnesses have not been cooperative in the murder of Kendra Nyetta "Lil Buna" Smalls, killed in a shoot-out at an illegally-operating club, authorities say.

Goldsboro police made a traffic stop on North Spence Avenue that turned up more than 50 pounds of chemicals used to make methamphetamine, authorities said.

The following driving while impaired arrests were reported by the State Highway Patrol: Robert Eugene Williams Jr., 33, 350 Fred Harrison Road, Snow Hill, .16. Arresting trooper: J. Rogers.

Southern Wayne High School Construction Academy summer camp students Brandon Davis, left, and John Taylor, center, nail top plates Wednesday while instructor John Gerken, right, takes a measurement during the construction of a storage shed.

Goldsboro police charged a Dudley man with felony hit-and-run and impaired driving after he allegedly hit two cars while driving the wrong way on U.S. 117 on Monday morning.

The following driving while impaired arrests were reported by the State Highway Patrol: Curtis Ray Thompson, 32, 4320 Keith Hills Drive, La Grange, June 4, .13. Arresting trooper: J. Rogers.

Debbie Ogburn, center front, principal of Carver Elementary School in Mount Olive, says her farewells to fifth-graders in the class of Belva Kinlaw, far right.

The state will not seek the death penalty in two Mount Olive murder cases. Michael Lee Shipman, 26, accused of the murder of Javonnie Langston, 33, of North Carolina Street, will not face the death penalty, court records show.

Two men have been arrested and charged with robbing a Zebulon bank on Wednesday.

The Goldsboro-Wayne Transportation Authority GATEWAY bus system recently put into operation six new vehicles on its rural routes -- four vans, a 20-foot light transportation vehicle and a 22-foot LTV.

Wayne County stands about a 95 percent chance of accomplishing all of the work on its $9.2 million capital improvement plan during the next budget year despite the economic slowdown, County Manager Lee Smith said.

A Division of Motor Vehicles mobile unit offering a convenient location for people in and around Newton Grove to obtain driver's licenses and vehicle registration renewals has been dropped.

Mount Olive man killed in hit-and-run Town budget nearly the same as '08 Dr. Kornegay's bridge ceremony in June Signs for Center Street traffic change to be posted SWHS cadets don't disappoint Local man named MOC's top art student Taylor earns prestigious honor Mount Olive native named top history student Carver students Kite Day Highway projects ...

Hervy Kornegay, Sr. during special ceremonies scheduled on June 11 at 11 a. m. at the town fire department.

Mount Olive man killed in hit-and-run Town budget nearly the same as '08 Dr. Kornegay's bridge ceremony in June Signs for Center Street traffic change to be posted SWHS cadets don't disappoint Local man named MOC's top art student Taylor earns prestigious honor Mount Olive native named top history student Carver students Kite Day Highway projects ...