Wilson County News

If anyone needed proof that the economy hasn't completely rebounded, they only had to look at the huge crowd that showed up for free food in Wilson Wednesday.

Ten animal shelters, including three here in Eastern Carolina, have agreed to stop using their carbon monoxide chambers for euthanasia.

For the last year, Roberto and Shelly Guillen have tried putting the pieces of their lives back together.

Wilson County Schools officials suspended 166 middle school students for dress code violations Thursday.

More than 30 Wilson County residents could get some extra cash for the holidays from the Internal Revenue Service.

President Barack Obama signed a $24 billion economic stimulus bill into law Friday, giving tax incentives to prospective homebuyers and additional jobless benefits to those idled by the business slump.

Wilson County 4-H celebrated a century of helping young people and the community this weekend.

A second suspect in an alleged Meadow Street dog fighting case was sentenced Thursday in Wilson Superior Court.

Every Thursday morning Candice Murray, who works for Wilson County Cooperative Extension, is at the walking trail at Wilson Medical Center applauding, encouraging and cheering people as they complete another quarter mile on the track.

An officer with 24 years of law enforcement experience now leads the Sharpsburg Police Department.

Hotly contested city and town races never stirred much enthusiasm among Wilson County voters judging by Tuesday's turnout.

Potential Medicaid budget cuts of 19 percent have child advocates and health department officials concerned that a higher number of babies in North Carolina will die before they reach their first birthday.

The town of Sharpsburg has a new police chief. Sara Wiggins, a 23-year law enforcement veteran, was sworn into office Friday by N.C. Superior Court Judge Tony Brown in Sharpsburg's town hall meeting room.

N.C. State University Chancellor Jim Woodard made a striking prediction last week: In coming years, the soon-to-be built futurist James B. Hunt Library will join the Bell Tower as one of the two signature structures on the West Raleigh campus.

Wilson County Sheriff Wayne Gay launched his 2010 re-election campaign Monday night with the help of nearly 500 friends and supporters.

Don Davis lost his apartment and his car, his wife is living with family, and he's staying at Hope Station homeless shelter.

Each month the Wilson County Board of Education releases its personnel list, which shows employees who have been hired or resigned from the system during the past month.

Bonnie Smith stood in the parking lot near the Black Creek gazebo, listening to the songs of the 1970s and remembering some of her better days growing up in Black Creek.

Hal Tarleton has been named the new branch manager for the Wilson-Greene branch of the Wayne/Wilson/Greene chapter of American Red Cross Tarleton, 60, former editor of The Wilson Times, began work Oct.

Hotly contested Wilson City Council races haven't yet set voters' hearts afire, judging by early turnout.