Sunday, August 12, 2007
Days Inn among hardest hit
Four people were taken to the hospital Friday after a windstorm leveled the roof at Days Inn on Wayne Memorial Drive, forcing an estimated 70 to 100 people to scramble from the 35-year-old structure. A line of storms accompanied by...Published: Aug 12, 2007 2:01 AM Full Story
Families displaced after storm hit
Gerald Wesley of Rocky Mount has worked hard over the past year to put a roof over his family's head. After getting hurt and losing his job, he and wife, Tangie, made their way to Goldsboro with their four young...Published: Aug 12, 2007 2:01 AM Full Story
Progress Energy crews worked to get power back on
Progress Energy and city crews worked through the night Friday to clear roads and assess damages caused by a storm that cracked giant trees, bent signs and took roof materials off several local businesses. Days Inn on Wayne Memorial Drive...Published: Aug 12, 2007 2:01 AM Full Story
Mayor says city 'got lucky'
At first, Al King thought it was just another storm. But when his power went out Friday evening, something just "felt wrong." So Goldsboro's mayor got in his car. "I started driving and everything looked fine and then I see...Published: Aug 12, 2007 2:00 AM Full Story
King Commission meets in Goldsboro
The Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Commission convened in Goldsboro Friday in the board room at Wayne Community College. Dr. Thomas Walker of Rocky Mount, chairman, said the group has been traveling around the state holding meetings where commission members...Published: Aug 12, 2007 2:00 AM Full Story
Monday last day to get tickets to Taste of Wayne
The aromas of area restaurant favorites and specialites will start to fill the air before the Taste of Wayne County begins on Tuesday from 5:30 to 7 p.m. With everything from pickles to pizza and Coca-Cola to chicken salad,...Published: Aug 12, 2007 2:00 AM Full Story
Basketball program offers alternative to gangs
Basketball will be used as an outreach to young people in the community, says the organizer of a program starting later this month. "Midnight Basketball" will officially be launched as an alternative to gangs and other wayward activities, said Daryl...Published: Aug 12, 2007 2:00 AM Full Story
Public record
Stabbing Javonnie Donta Langston, 32, of North Carolina Street, said four or five men jumped him while he was walking in the 100 block of Rockfeller Court Saturday afternoon. One of the suspects stabbed him, but he could not give...Published: Aug 12, 2007 2:00 AM Full Story
County commissioners to discuss land for Grantham school Sept. 4
The decision to not place consideration of the Wayne County Board of Education's purchase option of a 46-acre tract for a new Grantham Middle School on the county commissioners' agenda Tuesday, was not made out of a desire to...Published: Aug 12, 2007 2:00 AM Full Story