New Bern News

New Bern High School Principal Stuart Blount resigned his position as the top administrator in the system's largest high school to become one of two assistant superintendents of Scotland County Schools in Laurinburg.

Historical characters - some specific and some generalized - are beginning to appear around New Bern as part of a public art project aimed toward the city's 300th anniversary in 2010.

Nearly 20 years in Rowan County has convinced N.C. Transportation Museum Executive Director Elizabeth Smith that this is home.

Governor Perdue was called a back stabber at the New Bern Tea Party. There were speakers from many walks of life and a number of Veterans from several wars.

Marines recently learned lessons about warfare in an outdoor setting at the New Bern Civil War Battlefield.

Jury selection is scheduled to begin Tuesday in the trial of a Havelock man charged with first-degree murder.

Six lanes of U.S. 17 are blocked off at the highway's intersection with U.S. 70 after a tractor-trailer overturned around noon today, spilling scrap metal onto the side of the road.

The Down East FolkArts Society Series will present a band next week that has been called one of Ocracoke Island's favorites.

Lee Bettis, the lawyer who first made a name for himself in New Bern as a defender of Trent River rights, has defeated four-term mayor Tom Bayliss to claim the city's top job.

Lee Bettis campaign workers at a polling place. rodger whitney In a hotly contested Mayoral Run-off election, Lee Bettis is the winner, according to the unofficial results.

Gary Lamont Hayes of Havelock is expected to testify next week that he pulled the trigger of a 12-gauge shotgun, pumping three shots into Odell Foster Jr.

A public hearing will be held in New Bern Tuesday regarding the snapper grouper fishery.

There are several big races on tap for Tuesday's elections and one of those races is a runoff for Mayor.

Polls open at 6:30 a.m. and close at 7:30 p.m. today. If you are unsure of your polling place, go to www.sboe.state.nc.us. From there, click on "Voter Registration," then click "Check Your Registration," then "Voter Lookup." Enter your name and county, and the Web site will show you the nearest polling place.

Four candidates filed with the Craven County Board of Elections to be in the running on Tuesday for three open seats on the River Bend Town Council.

As early voting ended Saturday, more people had come to the polls to cast a vote in the runoff for New Bern's mayor than had voted in the one-stop early voting for the Oct.

The New Bern and Havelock high school marching bands performed this afternoon at the Crystal Coast Band Classic at Havelock High School.

Theater teacher Willie Sumner remembers when two students from Myanmar who spoke little to no English joined his class two years ago at New Bern High School, and his students wrote them into their pantomime, silent-acting plays.

Ghosts of New Bern and Carolina Carriage Tours will offer the last weekend of the Haunted Hayride in New Bern's downtown historic district this weekend.

The Sun Journal incorrectly reported that a woman had died of injuries from a shooting on Dry Monia Road in central Craven County that also resulted in her grandson's death.