Thurmond News

Gid Branch Baptist Church to present "Sweet Little Baby" Christmas play. Sunday Dec.

A Dobson man has been accused of an alcohol violation stemming from a fatal car accident last spring which claimed the life of an Ararat teen, according to the N.C. Department of Crime Control and Public Safety.

A Hamptonville man is free after posting a $1,000 unsecured bond on Sunday, Nov.

The Surry County Register of Deeds has granted the following marriage licenses: n Dustin Christopher Collins, 25, of Greensboro, and Kayla Ann Muncus, 23, of Greensboro, issued Oct.

My colleague Shavonne Potts ' recent column about some of the shenanigans committed by politicians from South Carolina, her home state, touched off something of a mini-debate about which state has the more embarrassing skeletons clattering about in its political closet, North Carolina or South Carolina.

Sen. Edward Kennedy, then a candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination, shakes hands with Strom Thurmond, R-S.C., a fellow member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, in July 1980.

When I moved to Kinston during October 2002, I immediately felt a kinship to this area.

The scandal surrounding South Carolina Gov. Mark Sandford -- who wasn't hking the Appalachian Trail incognito for five days but had flown to Buenos Aires to end a year-long affair with an Argentine woman -- is a relief from the usual gloomy news.