Pantego News

Mary Lou Spruill Combs, formerly of Stafford County, died Wednesday, Sept. 30, 2009, in Williamston, N.C. Mary Lou was born in Columbia, N.C., on Jan.

The Pasquotank County Sheriff's Office has arrested three people in connection with the robbery of a convenience store in May.

A Pantego man is accused of the statutory rape of a teenager. Jurden Bell, Jr. is charged with statutory rape of a person who is 13,14, or 15 years old by a defendant who is at least six years older than the victim.

Two Beaufort County men have been charged in Virginia with murder, four months after police say they fired on officers during a chase.

Two men from North Carolina have been charged with homicide in Franklin. Rockne Butler, a 39-year-old resident of Pantego, N.C., and Dennis Leon Blount, a 29-year-old resident of Washington, N.C., are charged with first-degree murder in the Jan.

We are receiving reports of power outages following Monday's storms, as well as reports of large hail.