New Bern News

If you're a state trooper, losing your hat can get you in trouble. Lying about how you lost your hat, however, can get you fired.

Gov. Bev Perdue said Thursday that it is "visceral" to her to ensure that a group of violent criminals serving life sentences from the 1970s will stay in N.C prisons until at least 2054.

A decision on the long-delayed sewer-service agreement between New Bern and Havelock will probably be one of the first things newly elected aldermen will need to handle in January, New Bern City Attorney Scott Davis told his leaders this week.

Janet Hatfield is not some free-ranging, motorcycle-riding radical. The bandana-wearing, elementary school-teaching grandmother just wants her chickens back.

A 74-year-old Newport man pleaded guilty to possession of child pornography on Wednesday in U.S. District Court in New Bern.

The combination of a nor'easter and the remnants of Tropical Storm Ida dumped as much as 8 inches of rain on parts of the area in two days, and its winds are expected to further whip it around for another day.

One police department in the east wants to stop people from popping pills if it's not prescribed to them.

West Craven and Jones Senior advanced to the second round of the state playoffs Saturday night.

New Bern has received at least 46 applications from people vying to be the next city manager, and now, the work of deciding how to replace veteran leader Bill Hartman will begin in earnest.

The new theatrical group Ratio Theatre Company of New Bern is preparing for its second show.

A Hubert man has been charged with murder in his wife's death. Soyer Lewis Moll, 20, of Sandridge Road, was charged late Tuesday night with the murder of Virginia Tillman Moll, according to the Onslow County Sheriff's Department.

The winner of a prestigious military award for service in Iraq has family members in the New Bern area.

A contractor could lose big money if construction of New Bern's new double-bascule drawbridge isn't completed by the deadline.

New Bern High School Principal Stuart Blount resigned his position as the top administrator in the system's largest high school to become one of two assistant superintendents of Scotland County Schools in Laurinburg.

Historical characters - some specific and some generalized - are beginning to appear around New Bern as part of a public art project aimed toward the city's 300th anniversary in 2010.

Nearly 20 years in Rowan County has convinced N.C. Transportation Museum Executive Director Elizabeth Smith that this is home.

Governor Perdue was called a back stabber at the New Bern Tea Party. There were speakers from many walks of life and a number of Veterans from several wars.

Marines recently learned lessons about warfare in an outdoor setting at the New Bern Civil War Battlefield.

Jury selection is scheduled to begin Tuesday in the trial of a Havelock man charged with first-degree murder.

Six lanes of U.S. 17 are blocked off at the highway's intersection with U.S. 70 after a tractor-trailer overturned around noon today, spilling scrap metal onto the side of the road.