Wayne County News

Election results for Eureka's mayor and two town board seats will not be confirmed by the Wayne County Board of Elections until Tuesday's canvass of the votes.

Gov. Charles Aycock got the 150th birthday present Sunday that his family wanted -- the old homestead re-opened to the public.

As North Carolina Governor Beverly Perdue fights to block the release of dozens of North Carolina prisoners with violent pasts, she is defending her role in the release of a double murderer.

Wayne County lawmen are asking for your help in finding a suspected robber. Thirty-nine year-old Tuwanna Sue Waters, who, according to lawmen, also goes by the last name Draper, is wanted for robbing Big Daddy's Gas and Grill in the Wayne County town of Eureka.

The Wayne County Sheriff's Office needs help finding a robbery suspect. On Sunday, Big Daddy's Gas and Grill, N.C. 222, Eureka, was the victim of a common law robbery.

Max and Cindy Hubrich of Pikeville prepare to cast their votes with the help of Wayne County Board of Elections Judge Judy Cordeiro and Precinct Assistant Patsy Howard at the Pikeville Fire Station this morning.

Franklin Baking Co. president Tom Buffkin, second from left, and company human resources manager Charles Brogden, third from left, hold the awards honoring the company as Wayne County's Industry of the Year.

New bleachers have been installed at the Boys & Girls Club of Wayne County. The $42,000 project provided three sets of aluminum bleachers, replacing ones that had been at the Royall Avenue site since 1969.

The Wayne County Veterans and Patriots Coalition will hold its Veterans Day Parade and ceremonies on Wednesday, Nov.

Three N.C. authors will discuss their memoirs Wednesday, Nov. 4, beginning at 7 p.m. in Room 101, Walnut Building, Wayne Community College.

More than 1,200 high school seniors from Wayne County Public Schools will attend the second annual career fair, planned for Thursday at Goldsboro Family YMCA.

Goldsboro police have made a second arrest in a 2008 homicide. James Sanders was found by authorities in Bennettsville, South Carolina.

A fight between a husband and a wife has landed both of them behind bars. Wayne County deputies say on Saturday they got a call of a domestic dispute on Emmaus Church Road in Dudley.

The Wayne County Sheriff's Office has charged three men with throwing rocks through the windshields of oncoming cars.

The Mental Health Association in Wayne County was recognized by the Mental Health Association of North Carolina at its annual conference.

Lloyd and Elizabeth Massey of Wayne County received Lifetime Achievement Awards from the North Carolina Grange at the organization's 81st Annual Convention in Fayetteville.

It's been 13 years since a Lenoir County farmer found the lifeless body of Jared Graybeal in a corn field off Louie Pollock Road.

Art Green, left, of the Wayne County Shriners Mini-Rigs and Seven Springs Mayor Stephen Potter mix batter for the Shriners' Fish Fry, which will be served from 11 a.m. until 2 p.m. and again from 4-7 p.m. at Herman... Please log in to see full story.

A Dudley man is wanted on drug trafficking charges, according to the Goldsboro Wayne-County Drug Squad.

Julie Daniels of the Goldsboro Rotary Club hands Daniel Flores a dictionary Wednesday morning at Eastern Wayne Elementary School.