Newton Grove News

Kevin Jasper of Mocksville was named the 2009 National Hollerin' Champion on Saturday.

Blankenship was given no bond and a trial date of July 21. 6/18 - Amanda Kay Bass, 24, of 772 Wade Stedman Road, Stedman, was charged with assault with a deadly weapon inflicting serious injury .

Sampson County Sheriff's investigators are searching for five men, operating a dark-colored passenger vehicle, who forced their way into a Newton Grove residence, demanded cash and shot two people in the early hours of Sunday morning.

The replacement of a decades-old pump in one of the town's wells has paid dividends, as drinking water is being pumped to residents at the fastest rate in recent memory.

Bost Grist Mill and the 30th North Carolina Troops will play host to a historic Civil War re-enactment this weekend in a meadow at the mill.

Sampson County truck driver Eugene Pearsall talks about his belief that Fibrowatt would be a positive for the county.

Law enforcement checkpoints at three separate locations in and around Newton Grove were responsible for a whopping 72 charges late last Friday night.

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 native tabbed as college's top history student 28 May 2008 Bryan King received the 2009 Citation for Outstanding Student of the Year in History at Mount Olive College's Annual Awards Day.

Ronald Viehweger, 41, died following a head-on collision between the motorcycle he was driving an a van driven by a Hispanic male, who reportedly fled the scene in a vehicle two cars behind.

While Newton Grove emergency officials were on scene at a fatal wreck Sunday afternoon, another call went out over scanner, this time to the Rolling Ridge Retirement Center, located at 700 Mount Olive Drive, just minutes away from the wreck.

A tragic two-vehicle accident Sunday afternoon has left one man dead and another one on the run.

Newton Grove police officers are continuing their investigation tonight into a Sunday afternoon wreck that killed a motorcycle driver.

It happened at the Rolling Ridge Retirement Center on Mount Olive Drive around 2:30 p.m. Officials from the center tell Eyewitness News that a hospital bed shorted out in a resident's room and smoked up one of the wings of the home.

Obituaries - Mary A. Backus, Anita G. Grantham, Daisy Jo Turner, W. Glen Sykes, Brian Davis, Gladys Sloan, LuRae C. Tyndall, Margaret W. Whitman, Ruth E. Smith, Katie F. Best, Mary Turner, Hooty Lewis Blended Fellowship choir "signing" director and pastor, the Reverend Doug Seymour stands with North Carolina Foundation for Christian Ministry ...

Residents in the town of Newton Grove will see jumps in water and sewer rates and user fees, but no tax increase, under a proposed town budget for the 2009-10 fiscal year.

In researching my upcoming book on factory farming for St. Martins Press, I have come across many warnings from our past about the looming threat of pandemic influenza emerging from large-scale hog operations.

Writing about swine flu last week , we observed that massive hog farms like those clustered near the outbreak's epicenter in the Mexican state of Veracruz "can act as a vector for environmental injustice," and pointed to studies done in North Carolina -- the nation's second-biggest producer of hogs after Iowa -- that found such farms put nearby ...

According to scientists studying the strain's genetic makeup, the swine flu has its ancestry in an outbreak among pigs that first struck a hog farm in Newton Grove, NC in August, 1998.

NEWTON GROVE, N.C. Investigators say it appears a truck driver fell asleep before his 18-wheeler slammed into a bridge on a North Carolina interstate highway, killing him.