Greene County News

Falling tree limbs - even falling trees - and repairs caused more than 800 electric customers in the Kinston and Snow Hill areas to lose power during and after Wednesday night's thunderstorm.

Two correctional officers and a former captain have been charged with assaulting an inmate at Maury Correctional Institution in Greene County.

A man reported missing by the North Carolina Center for Missing Persons was found about 7 p.m. Friday in Virginia, according to Greene County Sheriff Lemmie Smith.

An assistant supervisor for the N.C. Division of Motor Vehicles ' License and Theft Bureau who was fired after blowing the whistle, has filed a lawsuit in federal court to get his job back and collect $800,000 or more in damages.

The unemployment rate rose yet again in Wilson in May, surging to 13.6 percent of county's workforce last month.

A 10-person rotation of youth volunteers has been working since Tuesday to beautify a section of Maplewood Cemetery for visitors.

Greene County has always loomed large in author Louise Shivers' mind. Shivers' father was born outside Snow Hill, and ancestors of hers called the rural county home.

Kinston native Tara Taylor's life was shaped by her involvement in 4-H. "I would say that the experiences that I had in 4-H made me the person that I am," she said.

A family dog named Fatboy took a bullet for his owner during an attempted home invasion in La Grange on Thursday, one of three such incidents in northern Lenoir County that has the attention of the sheriff's office and the State Bureau of Investigation.

Art has the power to unite people, to make the world in which we live feel far less lonely and to provide solace to those who have lost their way.

SNOW HILL The Greene County Museum will this month host "An Evening with Author Louise Shivers." Shivers, a Stantonsburg native and writer-in-residence at Augusta State University in Georgia, is the author of award-winning novels "Here to Get My Baby Out of Jail" and "A Whistling Woman." "Here to Get My Baby Out of Jail" was adapted to the big ...

The Beacon Center could lose oversight responsibilities for mental health services in Greene County to another agency.

A state senator says a bill allowing more North Carolina cities to use taxpayer money for election campaigns isn't dead although it's been returned to committee.

Greene County recently received word that the county has been selected to receive $3 million in funding from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009.

Lenoir County's unemployment rate continued to decline during April, dropping to 11.8 percent from March's 11.9 percent rate.

The Greene County Senior Center typically sees about 100 locals come and go during the day, but Friday nearly 50 senior citizens gathered for more than an hour to celebrate Older American Month with food and fellowship.

About 25 runners made the 22.4 mile trek from the Goldsboro Police Department to the Greene County Courthouse on Friday morning carrying the Flame of Hope during the Law Enforcement Torch Run for Special Olympics.

Wayne County Social Services Director Debbie Jones signs a memorandum of agreement among agencies and organizations in Wayne County that deal with abused children.

Greene County Sheriff's Office investigators have arrested a Snow Hill woman they believe has been reselling her prescription narcotics for more than a year.

The families of nearly 80 Greene County students will be searching for a new place to take their children this summer.