Pikeville News

Emmie Collins, left, and Amanda Stevens, right, both 9, sign to the song "I Am a Friend of God" during worship services at Blended Fellowship Mission in Pikeville on Wednesday evening.

Wayne Community College honored 239 students for outstanding academic achievement in the spring semester.

An 18-year-old Pikeville man pleaded guilty to a role in the 2008 arson of turn-of-the-century Gov.

The Wayne Community College Small Business Center and the Wayne County Chamber of Commerce honored three local businesses Thursday at the 14th annual Wayne County Small Business of the Year Awards.

While most people were gearing up for football on Superbowl weekend in early February, Jennifer Pate's mind was on cookies.

The start of the filing period for the county's November municipal and sanitary district board elections is less than a month away.

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.

Efforts to clean up Stoney Creek have been slowed because of a failure to obtain a necessary permit from the Army Corps of Engineers.

With more than $17,000 raised by a fish fry for a Goldsboro police officer with leukemia, his friends and police department superiors were encouraged.

Getting about $20,000 in grant funding may not seem like much, but the the town's police chief says it's been enough to "save Fremont" from roving gangs and rampant street drug dealers.

The 2001 Ford was driven by E. Cox Wooten, 57, of Rollingwood Drive in Dudley. Damage to Michalek's Ford was estimated at $1,800. Damage to Wooten's Ford was estimated at $3,800. No charges have been filed.

This week each winner was shipped their choice of 60 boxes of Girl Scout cookies.

Four Wayne County students were among 41 from eastern North Carolina recently recognized with $1,000 college scholarships from Ronald McDonald House Charities of North Carolina.

On the night of Jan. 24, 2008, a fire was set at the original 1840s family farmhouse at the Charles B. Aycock Historic Site, damaging the home's parlor and a handful of artifacts.

Gov. Beverly Perdue accepts a Fremont Fire Department patch from firefighters who gathered to accept a signed proclamation honoring their work extinguishing a fire at the Charles B. Aycock Birthplace in January 2008.

James Serlick was the picture of health -- 24 years old, a Gold's Gym member, an advocate for exercise and his church.

In this Nov. 6, 2007 file photo, a polar bear mother stands with her two cubs in Wapusk National Park on the shore of Hudson Bay near Churchill, Manitoba, Canada.

Sheriff's Sgt. Craig Edwins reads the description of the details of the death of Constable Zeb B. Lancaster.

Karlie Jean West of Pikeville and Daniel Leonidas Newsome of Fremont exchanged wedding vows March 7 at Bethel Church in Goldsboro.

Goldsboro police are investigating a shooting on North Center that injured a local man.