Granville County News

A tractor trailer accident on I-85 northbound in Granville County is causing some delays this morning.

A judge will decide Friday who should get custody of a 6-year-old girl whose father is charged with killing her mother, Kelly Morris.

Arrests a Sheree Lee Bekhet, 43, of 309 Ridge Road, Butner, was booked Oct. 28. Simple assault.

Granville County teacher Bill Massey said he achieved the most meaningful accomplishment of his career this past June when Northern Granville Middle School named him " Teacher of the Year ." But his jubilation was soon followed by "gut-wrenching" disappointment.

The Granville County Library System has begun work to renovate and nearly double the size of its main branch in Oxford.

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Granville County Sheriff Brin Wilkins will hold a news conference at 4 p.m. Wednesday at his office about Kelly Currin Morris, who has been missing for more than a year.

Great Smoky Mountains National Park rangers said Monday they planned to issue charges in what would be the park's first case of elk poaching.

Rangers in the Great Smokey Mountains National Park say they expect to charge a man with killing an elk.

Recent heavy rains have temporarily closed three Vance County bridges due to flooding.

Charges are pending against a Granville County mansuspected of shooting a bull elk inside Great Smoky Mountains National Park, according to a press release from the park.

The Granville County seat will be receiving statewide television air time today when it is featured as an N.C. Spin Carolina Community.

OXFORD a ' Two men were jailed on more than $100,000 bond, a teen was jailed on more than $50,000 bond and another teen was jailed on $30,000 bond after the Granville County Sheriffa TMs Department booked them in connection with break-ins and property damage in the rural northern part of the county.

The Veterans Day gathering at American Legion Post 90 featured World War II Navy veteran John Shearin, who was one of the personnel on a vessel that carried Allied soldiers and equipment to Omaha Beach on D-Day 1944.

Citizens, civic leaders and officials gathered late Tuesday afternoon to welcome Shalag Industries at what will be the Israeli company's first U.S. plant, located near the Interstate 85 and U.S. 158 interchange just east of Oxford.

The former Jones drugstore on Friday morning reopened with the same Jones name, minus the pharmacy, but with the old time lunch counter, grill and soda fountain intact in a remodeled interior with an Internet cafA© and a custom framing shop.

Arrests a Laura Lynn Aird, 42, of 9527 Catfish Trail, Oxford, was booked Oct. 23. Felony possession of cocaine.

Elections at the southern of end of Granville County feature contests for all three municipalities there, but the one contest to watch could be for mayor of Stem.

Voters in Granville County today will be going to the polls to choose leaders in all five municipalities.

Voters returned Mayor Al Woodlief to another two-year term in office and chose Ron Bullock, Danny Currin, Calvin "C.J." Harris Jr.