Jones County News

Gov. Bev Perdue announced Thursday that state and local law enforcement officers removed 816 impaired drivers from state roadways during the Halloween "Booze It & Lose It" campaign, which ran Oct.

HARVEST FEST/ Trunk or Treat at First Christian Church, Richlands, from 6 to 8 p.m. Oct.

A house fire Tuesday afternoon has closed down traffic on Highway 17 in Jones County.

Most of the 21 members of the Military Growth Task Force are expected at a meeting in Trenton Thursday, the first with Mark Sutherland as director and one expected to finalize the draft Regional Growth Management Plan.

Two days from now, voters in 10 local municipalities will head to the polls and, with the push of a button, choose their leaders for the next two to four years.

Down the stretch ... Today is the last day to vote early before Tuesday's runoffs and elections.

Mayoral candidate Lee Bettis says an anonymous fax that lists 10 misdemeanor charges against him is "dirty pool" in New Bern, and that he has never been convicted of any alcohol-related offenses, the most serious items on that list.

Jones County authorities have netted and put down four dogs implicated in an attack on a local woman last week.

On Tuesday, a Jones County physical science teacher who was charged with nine felonies was sentenced in Lenoir County Superior Court.

Lenoir County's unemployment rate dropped during September but remained above the state average for the same period.

State environmental officials have allocated $65 million in federal stimulus funds to cities, counties and local water systems across the state to help them improve drinking water quality or bring more water to their communities.

Early voting for local municipal elections begins today and Lenoir County elections director Dana King is hoping for a better turnout among Kinston voters, after paltry participation in last month's primary.

Voters eager to make their Nov. 3 election choices official may cast ballots beginning today in races in five municipalities and a sanitary sewer district in Craven County, three in Pamlico County, and two in Jones County.

Anyone finishing a plastic bottle of soda, milk or cough syrup today has to find a different place than the trash can to toss it.

Stimulus funds intended for providing broadband access to parts of coastal Carolina could be applied to Onslow and Carteret counties - but the counties may not need it.

The eastbound lanes of U.S. 70 remain closed this morning near the Dover exit in Jones County as work continues to unload an overturned produce truck and clear it from the roadway, the Highway Patrol said.

BREAD OF LIFE CHURCH, 220 Francktown Road in Richlands hosts Fellowship Saturday from 8 a.m. to noon Sept.

GREATER SHEKINAH Glory Full Gospel Ministries celebrates its pastor's 13th anniversary at 7:30 p.m. Sept.

New sidewalks should make a handful of schools safer soon. It's part of the North Carolina "Safe Routes To School Project." EB Aycock Middle School in Greenville will get a new sidewalk on Red Banks Road from 14th to Charles Boulevard.

The N.C. Highway Patrol cited nearly twice as many people for driving while impaired this Labor Day weekend than during 2008, helping cut nearly in half the number of alcohol-related collisions in Lenoir and Jones counties from Friday to Monday.