Lenoir County News

The Lions Water Adventure Park held its ribbon-cutting ceremony Thursday morning, with hundreds of dignitaries, citizens and children in attendance.

An investigation this week into potential metal thefts turned up much more than detectives from the Lenoir County Sheriff's Office anticipated.

The N.C. Center for Missing Persons has issued a Silver Alert for a missing endangered woman, Louvenia Grady Boone.

Lenoir County Sheriff Chris Hill told us during a live interview at 5:00 p.m. that it all started as a metal theft investigation.

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The Lenoir County Juvenile Crime Prevention Council held its legislative breakfast at the Woodmen of the World Center in Kinston.

CLICK HERE to view to view a PDF document that includes photos of inmates processed at Lenoir County jail this week.

Stephen A. LaRoque railed for years against big government and those who take taxpayer handouts.

A crew from Barnhill Contracting Co. tackles grading work just off U.S. 70 at the Wayne-Lenoir county line.

A tractor trailer hauling peanuts lies on its side while investigators from the Kinston Department of Public Safety check out the scene Tuesday night.

ECU says it is investigating the discovery of a video possibly recorded in a campus locker room by a man already convicted of doing the same thing in Wake County.

Maya Leonard Swinson recently was selected to head Rochelle Middle School and will take over for the five-year principal, Nicholas Harvey II, who is often credited for the school's turnaround.

CLICK HERE to view to view a PDF document that includes photos of inmates processed at Lenoir County jail this week.

The Kinston City Council approved a permit last week allowing the construction of a new 60-unit apartment complex at the north end of Doctors Drive.

And why not, as Sterling Archer exclaimed on the FX show "Archer," "Look at his little spots! Look at his tufted ears!" "Maybe one day, I can, but right now it's not an option," McCoy said at last week's Special Olympics Spring Games at South Lenoir High School.

As I brought up a few weeks ago in this space, we've gone through some pretty dramatic changes at the ol' Kinston Daily Free Press lately.

Andrew Duppstadt, assistant curator of education for Historic Sites in Eastern North Carolina, recently spoke to the Kinston Evening Rotary Club about the moving and opening of the historic CSS Ram Neuse to downtown Kinston.

The Lenoir County Sheriff's Office released the names late Thursday afternoon, but a family friend at the scene confirmed the identity of the couple.

A Lenoir County couple, married for more than 60 years, was killed in a mobile home fire Thursday morning, according to family friends.

The Piedmont Triad area is the southern terminus for the magicicada line known as Brood II.