Vanceboro News

Be careful what you promise, or even for what you pray. Fulfilling a promise and repaying an answered prayer put Pastor Marty Warren up a ladder and on the roof of Holly Hill Pentecostal Holiness Church in Vanceboro on Sunday.

Six substandard houses in Craven County will be replaced or upgraded with a $400,000 grant awarded to Craven County.

A fatal wreck has led to criminal charges against one of the drivers. Twenty year-old Hailey Renee Howell is charged with misdemeanor death by motor vehicle in the crash that killed 40 year-old Anthony Cox, Jr.

A 20-year-old Vanceboro woman faces multiple charges, including misdemeanor death by vehicle, in connection with a two-vehicle car crash, which left a man dead.

County fairs come but once a year, but they leave lifetime memories. Tim Eckloff of Grantsboro has been going to fairs all his life.

A man charged with murder in Craven County invoked his Fifth Amendment right Wednesday, choosing not to speak with investigators about the crime he is accused of committing.

A North Carolina woman has been fined $1,500 for attempting to smuggle a prohibited weapon into Canada.

A man trapped in his vehicle after a head-on collision on U.S. 17 near Vanceboro on Tuesday was airlifted to Pitt County Memorial Hospital with what appeared to be "multi-system trauma." The accident also seriously injured a five-year-old child and injured her mother, according to emergency services personnel at the scene.

A Farmville man was not able to survive a head-on collision. 40 year-old Anthony Jerome Cox Jr.

A Farmville man is dead after his vehicle and a van collided head-on on U.S. 17 around 3 p.m. Tuesday.

The name of the woman killed in a single-vehicle crash early Sunday near Fort Barnwell has been released.

Musical styles from around the globe were part of this year's "Battle of the Bands" competition.

The Northern Nash Marching Knights traveled to Vanceboro on Sept. 26 for the West Craven Band Classic.

"Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen," read the programs handed out at a church in rural Vanceboro on Sunday.

An armed robbery took place outside of the Wal-Mart store on Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

Will Dudley wore his first-place blue ribbon on Saturday on his waist, strapped to a leather belt that was studded with a shiny silver and gold belt buckle with the profile of a lamb in the center.

This week, Craven County commissioners approved in principle allocating county money to match grants of up to $50,000 each for three county volunteer rescue squads.

Wendy Graveman doesn't mark Sept. 16 on her calendar. Like many coastal residents, it's a day she would rather forget.

A string of changes in the top leadership positions at several Craven County schools resulted in an announcement Thursday that a new principal has been selected to lead Creekside Elementary School.

Hayden H. Jones was home from Peace College and Charlotte College, working as a bookkeeper at her father's K.R. Jones Amoco 'filling station' at the corner of Pollock and George streets, when another kind of book opened for her.