Kinston News

Pigs must have been flying over Kinston on Tuesday. That's the only phenomenon to explain the results of the city election giving the mayor's chair to Republican B.J. Murphy.

A Lenoir County Board of Elections official said Tuesday morning that voter turnout in the election has been lower than in 2007.

Today, approximately 25 percent of the Kinston electorate will dodge potholes, bad drivers and sporadic gunfire to cast their votes for mayor.

After 30 years of public service, Kinston Public Safety Director Greg Smith is retiring and entering the private sector.

B.J. Murphy, a 29-year-old businessman who ran and lost the race for Kinston mayor four years ago, ran and won Tuesday, finishing a mere 61 votes ahead of the second-place finisher.

To remedy that, we are introducing new features. You can create your own blog, publish your news and share your photos with the community.

The Kinston Department of Public Safety now has a Twitter page. In an effort to utilize the latest in electronic messaging, we can publish information about emergency situations, request help in locating suspects in a crime, disperse safety tips and other important information.

With only hours left until Kinston learns who its next mayor is, the three candidates hit the pavement Monday in a final push before Election Day.

Kinston Mayor O.A. "Buddy Ritch" said he doesn't want to see the city's U.S. Postal Service mail operation consolidated with the service's operation in Fayetteville.

Two men were shot at 104 E. Shine Street in Kinston at 3:19 a.m. Sunday. Commander Rick Harrell tells WITN one of the men was shot in the face while the other was shot in the upper chest.

A La Grange man was arrested and charged this week for allegedly robbing and assaulting Robert Kohnfelder of Kinston on Oct.

A Kinston man was struck in his head Friday morning in an attempted robbery in the 100 block of East Shine Street.

A man was attacked and robbed Friday in broad daylight by three armed men. Kinston police say the robbery happened in front of Tony's Friendly Mart on East Shine Street just before noon.

As was reported in the Free Press earlier this week, Fox News dispatched a four-man crew to cover the nonpartisan election bugaboo that blew up nationally last week.

Ham's Restaurants Inc., which started with a single restaurant in Greensboro in 1935 , has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.

A physical science teacher who taught in Jones County and who pleaded no contest to nine felonies was sentenced in Lenoir County Superior Court to 45 days in prison Tuesday.

The Kinston Department of Public Safety has charged a man with three felonies in relation to an incident that was reported in early March.

About 50 people gathered in the Kinston Medical Specialists Hematology and Oncology parking lot Friday to celebrate life.

"it is a plain fact of American political life today that Democrats are completely dependent on black votes.

Only the conservative press is paying attention to the story of Justice Department interference in an election-procedure decision made by the voters of Kinston, N.C. - but it's paying a lot of attention.