Albertson News

The three people who best know what circumstances led to a Fountaintown man being shot dead in downtown Beulaville earlier this week aren't talking.

Wednesday's high winds gusted as high as 46 miles per hour at the Kinston airport at about 10 p.m., bringing tree limbs down and causing power outages, Meteorologist Hal Austin of the National Weather Service in Newport said.

Dawn Baker of Pink Hill didn't anticipate any problems when she exchanged a coat for her son at Kinston's JC Penney on Wednesday.

Honks, beeps and sirens sounded out noisily from a seemingly unending line of fire and rescue trucks from around the area at the beginning of the Pink Hill Christmas Parade Sunday.

"It has started picking up," Kinston Postmaster Al Brantley said Tuesday. "We still have customers coming in and purchasing Christmas stamps and mailing packages." The U.S. Postal Service expects 385 million packages to be shipped this Christmas, a 20 percent annual gain and a USPS record The first and last hours of each day, as well as lunchtime, ... (more)