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Jamee Watson of Charlotte and David Melvin of Emerald Isle will exchange wedding vows on Oct.

Family and friends are still mourning the loss of four soldiers from Eastern North Carolina who died in Iraq last week.

The Big Rock Blue Marlin Tournament has exceeded $2 million in charitable contributions following donations from this year's tournament.

As of Thursday, July 2, 2009, at least 4,322 members of the U.S. military had died in the Iraq war since it began in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count.

A Wilson woman is dead and two men are hospitalized after a Sunday wreck in Carteret County, according to the N.C. Highway Patrol.

Paul Rudershausen will leave Coos Bay, Ore., on Aug. 1 for a bike ride benefiting the Outer Banks Wildlife Shelter.

FORT MACON STATE PARK concert series continues at 7 p.m. June 26 featuring music by the Carteret Grays Camp Band.

J.T. KERR BAPTIST CHURCH presents "Back in the Day," the story of Georgetown High School at 8 p.m. June 25 at Northside High School.

A Carteret County pair accused of selling cocaine in a high school parking lot faces drug and weapons charges, authorities said.

Groundbreaking for a $16.84 million facility to provide engineering support at Navy's Fleet Readiness Center East is scheduled for 9 a.m. Monday morning.

Williams is among 446 paralegals in the state of North Carolina and 15,378 nationwide who have attained this goal and can carry the CLA/CP designation.

You know in my elation, thankfulness and happiness about my daughter-in-law Carole's successful kidney transplant operation, I overlooked a very, very important equation in the process.

A Carteret County man whose body was found earlier this week along the shore of Bogue Sound died of an apparent accidental drowning.

Havelock Police have identified a Newport woman as the driver in a single-vehicle accident this morning on Main Street.

Mary Blackwell Dawson, 60, of Newport, died Tuesday, May 19, 2009, at Britthaven of Newport.

Men, women and children from around the state, country and world came to Lenoir County on Friday morning to participate in the fourth annual Spring Splash canoe and kayak ride hosted by the Kinston-Lenoir County Tourism Development Authority.

Tuesday began at 3 a.m. for several American Legion Post 43 members and didn't end until after 6 p.m. But when it finally concluded, thousands of dollars had been raised via hundreds of barbecue chicken, potato, green beans and cake dinners sold to Lenoir County residents.

Evangelene Green Wadell, 51, of New Bern, died on Monday, May 4, 2009, at her residence.

Service to others is high on the list of life lessons that Sara Simpson has worked to teach her children.

We've all seen a band at a bar before. And we've all seen a white marker board. But most of us have never seen to the two put together in such a place.