Mount Olive News

The Catholic Diocese of Raleigh will soon begin the long process of determining whether the first North Carolina native to be ordained a priest should be declared a saint.

Residents of the Zion Church Road community east of Mount Olive were successful Tuesday in convincing Wayne County commissioners not to recommend dead-ending their road.

The Rev. W. Gerald Garris, 76, died Thursday, Feb. 2, 2012. The funeral will be held at 3 p.m. Saturday, Feb.

Two suspects are in custody after investigators in Wayne County say they uncovered a meth lab.

Golden Grove Retail Store manager Janice Sessoms prepares to check out a customer who came in to check out the North Carolina produced items available, including some from Sampson County.

Murphy-Brown LLC is expanding contracting opportunities for North Carolina farmers who grow grain sorghum for the 2012 growing season.

Kevin Hayes of Mount Olive is running for state House of Representatives in District 4, which includes Wayne and Duplin Counties.

Murphy-Brown LLC is expanding contracting opportunities for North Carolina farmers who grow grain sorghum for the 2012 growing season.

Six people died at GlenClare, a Mount Olive assisted living facility in 2010. Their deaths were hepatitis-related and are now leading to a new law taking effect this month.

From left, Greg Eloshway, senior vice president / Mount Olive city executive with Southern Bank and Trust Company; Dr.

Three of the four contract doctors who review drivers' medical files have connections to Susan Stewart, who oversees the state Division of Motor Vehicles' Medical Review Branch: Dr.

A lucky feline is warming up at an animal shelter in Edneyville after surviving a trip from Canada in the back of a refrigerated truck.

It was Halloween 2010 the first time Mount Olive police chief Brian Rhodes noticed there were some new faces in town.

In 1654, in the village of Altikon, Switzerland, near Zurich, just south of the Rhine River and a border with Germany, Jacob Amann was born.

While it's impossible to duplicate growing conditions from one year to the next, growers can stick to the production practices that work best, and that's what south Georgia peanut producer Kreg Freeman does to maintain high yields and top quality.