Stantonsburg News

Greene County Sheriff's deputies arrested a second man Monday suspected of murdering of two local brothers this past summer.

Sheriff Lemmie Smith says Maurice Wesley was charged today with the murder of James & Antwan Cox.

Stormy weather drove Wilson's Veterans Day service inside Wednesday morning and may have kept attendance down.

A fire in a dryer line at the Alliance One International tobacco processing plant early Saturday morning shut down the plant until at least Wednesday.

Stantonsburg woman wins lottery Annette Boyd of Stantonsburg won $41,719 in the Carolina Cash 5 drawing Saturday.

Hotly contested city and town races never stirred much enthusiasm among Wilson County voters judging by Tuesday's turnout.

Members of the Cape Fear Conference -- Eastern North Carolina Episcopal District African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church are calling for the immediate release of inmates who have served their life terms.

Each week for the Schools page, the Times will spotlight the happenings at local schools.

Shots were fired in an ongoing dispute between two men early Friday morning, but nobody was injured during the altercation.

Lucama Lucama residents may soon be dropping their recyclable items by the curb if town officials seal a deal with Waste Industries.

An unemployed Wilson County man and his wife are $1 million richer, after making a big win in the North Carolina Education Lottery.

Regina and Ricky Whitaker wander into the Stantonsburg Friendly Mart every day to buy a lotto ticket hoping to get lucky.

Regina and Ricky Whitaker have claimed their $1 million lottery prize. The couple used their instant scratch-off state lottery winnings Tuesday to buy a second ticket that turned them into millionaires.

Two of the principle defendants, Darryl Wilkes and Stacey Devone Atkinson who were arrested in connection with the July 2007 murder of Stantonsburg businessman Song Ni, are scheduled to go on trial in mid-January. In Superior Court this week, Greenville attorney Buddy Conner who represents Darryl Wilkes, 36, of 3921 W. Perry St., petitioned the ...

Each month the Wilson County Board of Education releases its personnel list, which shows employees who have been hired or resigned from the system during the past month.

The Wilson County Board of Education's Instructional Services Committee toured Stantonsburg Elementary School Monday morning.

While others toil at mundane jobs, Rex M. Best titillates as he works. He cozies up to the three Emmys in his Greensboro home and dreams up ways for the Newmans, Abbotts, and Forresters to fall or jump into or out of love or mayhem.

The latest enrollment figures for Wilson County Schools show not as many students as expected have enrolled in the district this year even though several schools have seen growth spikes.

Blue lights, orange cones and slow moving traffic were the scene Friday night in the 3000 block of Forest Hills Road.

Sheriff Lemmie Smith of Greene County says they have arrested 19 year-old Robert Smith of Stantonsburg, NC in connection with the deaths of James and Antwan Cox.