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updated: Sat Jul 19, 2008 09:53 pm

Wayne County News

Local, regional, and statewide news continually updated from thousands of sources on the web.

27 min ago | Goldsboro News-Argus

Weighed down with worry - Wayne County residents face economic slump

The fact that by every official measurement America isn't in a recession yet doesn't matter to most local residents.

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Related Topix: Goldsboro, NC, Goldsboro Metro

8 hrs ago | Goldsboro News-Argus

'The Dark Knight' lands in Wayne County

Batman fans have been waiting a long time for "The Dark Knight" and, when he arrived in Goldsboro this morning for a special midnight debut, the caped crusader drew an audience of more than 600 to Premiere ...

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Related Topix: Goldsboro Metro, Goldsboro, NC

17 hrs ago | WNCT-TV Greenville

U.S. Secret Service in Wayne County

The U.S. Secret Service was called in to Wayne County to help with a case. After a citizen's tip, sheriff's deputies and Mount Olive police officers arrested Angelica Usher and Travis Thomas on forgery and ...

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Related Topix: US Secret Service, US News

Fri Jul 18, 2008

Goldsboro News-Argus

Wayne's drought status - moderate

After another dry week, Wayne County remains in the moderate drought category, state officials say.

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Related Topix: Weather, Natural Disasters, Drought, Goldsboro Metro, Goldsboro, NC

Goldsboro News-Argus

Teens give helping hand to Habitat for Humanity build

Wayne County teenagers will get the opportunity to help out some of their neighbors later this month as the local Habitat for Humanity will host its first-ever Teen Day.

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Related Topix: Family, Teenagers, Goldsboro Metro, Goldsboro, NC

Wed Jul 16, 2008

Goldsboro News-Argus

Man charged with second sexual assault

Exactly one week before Christian Ray Godette severely injured a Colonial Court resident, he sexually attacked another victim on N.C. 111 South, authorities say.

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Related Topix: Goldsboro Metro, Goldsboro, NC

Tue Jul 15, 2008

WNCT-TV Greenville

Arrest made in 2007 case through DNA analysis

The Wayne County Sheriff's Office Investigations Division tell Nine On Your Side that they arrested 17 year old Christin Ray Godette.

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Related Topix: Goldsboro, NC

Goldsboro News-Argus

Services on Aging to hold summer dance

The Goldsboro Parks and Recreation Department, the Family Y and Wayne County Services on Aging are teaming up to host a Senior Citizen Summer Dance.

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Related Topix: Goldsboro Metro, Goldsboro, NC

Sun Jul 13, 2008

Goldsboro News-Argus

Man, 43, charged with raping teen

Neighboring campers and staff helped surround a rape suspect until authorities arrived at a popular recreational park to find and arrest him Friday.

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Related Topix: Kinston, NC, Lenoir County, NC

Sat Jul 12, 2008

WITN

Kinston Man Charged With Raping A Teenager

Hey, read the rules! A Kinston man is behind bars charged with raping a 15 year old by knife point.

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Related Topix: Goldsboro, NC

Fri Jul 11, 2008

The Dispatch

Man pleads guilty in scam to keep mom's benefits

A North Carolina man accused of collecting $222,000 in retirement benefits after his mother's death has pleaded guilty to mail fraud in Detroit.

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Related Topix: Matthews, NC

Goldsboro News-Argus

County approves Code Red warning system

It doesn't appear that Hurricane Bertha that is now rumbling around in the Atlantic Ocean will pose any threat to North Carolina.

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Related Topix: Hurricane, Weather, Hurricane Bertha

Thu Jul 10, 2008

Goldsboro News-Argus

Rain came but county still in severe drought

The drought situation in Wayne County isn't over, but at least it isn't getting worse.

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Related Topix: Weather, Natural Disasters, Drought, Goldsboro Metro, Goldsboro, NC

Wed Jul 09, 2008

Goldsboro News-Argus

School and county officials discuss plans

Improving the quality of education in Wayne County will take everyone coming to the table, officials said Tuesday.

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Related Topix: Brogden, NC, Mount Olive, NC

Tue Jul 08, 2008

Goldsboro News-Argus

Dave McClenny and other World War II airmen honored in Brussels

The monument, a six-foot tall stone stele, stands in the median of a Belgian highway.

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Related Topix: Mount Olive, NC, Pikeville, NC, US Military, US Air Force, Davis-Monthan Air Force Base

Sun Jul 06, 2008

Goldsboro News-Argus

Goldsboro on list of historical bargains

Goldsboro is listed on the This Old House Web site as one of the best places in the country to find an older home ready for refurbishing.

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Related Topix: Raleigh, NC, Raleigh Metro, Goldsboro Metro, Goldsboro, NC

Fri Jul 04, 2008

Goldsboro News-Argus

Mount Olive looks at $181,000 more in general revenue funds for next year

An additional $78,000 in property taxes from the new Wal-Mart and additional development at that site account for about 43 percent of an $181,000 increase in the Town of Mount Olive's $2,930,751 general fund ...

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Related Topix: Mount Olive, NC, Duplin County, NC

Wed Jul 02, 2008

Goldsboro News-Argus

Wayne County child care advocates lobby for more legislative funding

Child care professionals, advocates, parents and business leaders from Wayne County were among those who traveled to Raleigh Tuesday to meet with the legislators in the N.C. General Assembly.

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Related Topix: Raleigh, NC, Raleigh Metro

Goldsboro News-Argus

Cocaine, marijuana seized in county raid

Agents of the cooperative Goldsboro-Wayne County Drug Squad led a raid that Sheriff Carey Winders called the largest drug bust so far this year.

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Related Topix: Goldsboro Metro, Goldsboro, NC, Drugs

Tue Jul 01, 2008

Goldsboro News-Argus

Six men charged for drugs

Six people were arrested by Mount Olive Police in a drug round-up Monday, including a fugitive from a past drug round-up who absconded last October, Police Chief Ralph Schroeder said.

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Related Topix: Dudley, NC, Mount Olive, NC

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