Grifton News

Bishop Richard Earl Artis, 73, of 5206 Sharon Church Road, died Thursday, May 24, 2012.

Julie Michelle Tyndall and Christopher Kent Manning, both of La Grange, were united in marriage at 4 p.m. April 21, 2012, at White Oak Grove Original Free Will Baptist Church in La range.

A stabbing at a Kinston convenience store has landed two people in jail after another attempted stabbing at a chicken processing plant.

Wednesday's storms brought funnel clouds and flash street flooding to parts of Eastern Carolina, along with quarter and golf ball-sized hail.

The Richmond County Branch of the NAACP will host its 34th annual Banquet on May 11, 2012, at 7:30 p.m. at the East Hamlet Concerned Citizens Center, 155 Laurel Hill St., Hamlet.