Beaufort County News

Hey, read the rules! Fire investigators say a hawk, sparked a field fire this afternoon that came dangerously close to burning down a farm house in beaufort county.

But, what's helping the 345 firefighters out tremendously, are the volunteers and relief workers doing their part miles away from the flames.

Nine On Your Side has learned the U.S. Department of Transportation is granting $333,468 in funding for Highway 17 in Beaufort County.

Crews are still battling a 200 acre wildfire in Beaufort County. Beaufort County Emergency Services Director John Pack says a barn fire on Cayton Road started yesterday afternoon.

Hey, read the rules! Firefighters from Beaufort and Craven County were called to a wildfire in southern Beaufort County Wednesday.

Beaufort County was returned to his family this morning. Taylor was killed by an IED explosion last week.

Hey, read the rules! Belhaven's former top cops were back in town hall today, fighting their terminations.

There is new information today about the death of a Beaufort County soldier killed in Iraq.

At the Hispanic Family Center off Raleigh's Brentwood Road, the nation's roiling debate over immigration is far from abstract.

On May 28, 2008, the Beaufort County Sheriff's Office responded to Buddies Restaurant in Chocowinity in reference to an attempted larceny.

The police presence in one town in the east has just gone from slim, to none. The last police officer in Belhaven stepped down yesterday, leaving the town with no police in the department.

The Beaufort County Sheriff's Office tells Nine On Your Side that they arrested 31 year old Anthony Freeman of Belhaven after purchasing crack cocaine from him.

A man and a woman are facing charges this morning after police say they received a report of a sexual assault involving two juveniles.

Beaufort County Emergency Management Director John Pack says they are dealing with the smoke too there.

The smoke is making its way through Eastern North Carolina. It has gone as far as Raleigh.

On June 8th, 2008, the Beaufort County Sheriff's Office received a report of a suspicious vehicle located at the end of a logging path near Grassy Point in Belhaven, N.C. Deputies responded and learned that the ...

Records subpoenaed by federal investigators - ' and released to The News & Observer in response to a request under the state's public records law - ' show that in September 2005, Norris Tolson , then the head ...

Gov. Mike Easley today declared a state of emergency in Hyde, Tyrrell and Washington counties due to the wildfire that now covers about 30,000 acres , much of it in the Pocosin Lakes National Wildlife Refuge.

The inaugural year of a program aimed at turning at-risk boys from the Pactolus area into productive citizens was a successful one, officials say, leaving organizers to believe they may expand membership next ...

On May 14, 2008, Investigators with the Beaufort County Sheriff's Office Drug Unit served arrest warrants on Uriah Chaves Keyes, 18 years of age, of 165 Turkey Trot Road in Washington.