Carteret County News

Despite the fact that their decisions affect the daily lives of residents, municipal election voter turnout is typically lower than in general elections - sometimes by as much as half.

The Carteret County Veterans Council will host its annual Veterans Day Parade Saturday in Morehead City.

Town commissioners Ellen Linden and Mike King know they'll be back in office but they'll have to wait to see how long their terms will be.

Although the apparent losing candidate in the Pine Knoll Shores mayoral race has congratulated the winner, he said he will wait for next week's official results and may even ask for a recount if the vote tally remains close.

A Carteret County pair was charged over the weekend for stealing property from a home one of the suspects was watching for family members, authorities said.

A Clinton man is charged with biting off another man's ear during an argument. Carteret County Sheriff's deputies arrested 25-year-old David Bryant Turner Sunday.

In cooperation with the local health department, the Carteret County school system will be sending information home with students Monday about a free, voluntary H1N1 vaccination program in the schools.

Saturday is the last day for voters to use One-Stop voting to cast an early ballot for the municipal elections slated for Tuesday.

HAVELOCK The lights came on in Greenfield Heights Subdivision about 10:50 a.m. Thursday as power companies restored electricity to the last of more than 18,000 customers from Havelock to Altantic.

Updated at 4:39 p.m. to include additional charges against Yates. Havelock police say a Newport man intentionally crashed his car into the Bayside restaurant Monday morning in hopes of getting the attention of a woman.

A Harkers Island man was arrested this weekend for allegedly holding a knife to his ex-wife, according to Carteret authorities.

A suspect arrested over the weekend in Carteret County for driving while impaired is also wanted on rape and other charges in Cumberland County.

The death of a horse in Newport has been attributed to Eastern Equine Encephalitis, a rare disease that can prove fatal to humans as well as horses, according to the Carteret County Health Department.

Two local residents and Swansboro police helped stop an apparent suicide attempt on the White Oak River Bridge Tuesday.

Updated at 10:40 a.m. Power is returning to the east end of Havelock this morning following a Progress Energy transmission outage at 2:30 a.m. In all, the outage affected about 16,000 power customers in Carteret and Craven counties, including about 4,300 in the Havelock area.

Billed as a harmless way to pump up education revenue without raising taxes, the empathetically named North Carolina Education Lottery was created to compete with surrounding state lotteries, where Tar Heels often dropped thousands of dollars.

A record amount of prescription drugs has been taken out of medicine cabinets throughout Carteret County.

The apparent resolution of a missing person case in Carteret County comes with mixed emotions for the investigators who have worked the case for nearly five years.

Emily King has been praying for closure, she said, but her son's body at the bottom of a channel wasn't the closure she had hoped for.

A sports utility vehicle that disappeared in 2005 at the same time as its driver has been found in waters off Beaufort with the remains of a body in it.