Oxford News

Contributed photos/VGCC Eaton-Johnson Middle School ambassadors Annabelle Webb, Amber Cousin, Chattia Evans, VGCC Culinary Arts instructor Chef Bill Harrison, and ambassadors Malik Williams, Jennifer Seward and William Jones.

The North Carolina governor's race is going to be a long one. For Libertarian Party nominee Barbara Howe, it'll be literally chopped up into 5-kilometer increments.

DUPLIN COUNTY, NC An escaped inmate was found early Friday morning while fueling up a stolen truck in Oxford, NC.

Contributed photos/VGCC Participants start the inaugural VGCC Earth Day Fun Run/Walk in the courtyard on the college's Main Campus.

The Granville Arts Council is proud to present the Third Annual Granville Arts Festival this Saturday.

Contributed photos/VGCC Posing for a group picture on the UNC-TV campus are: VGCC staff member Norma Pulley, student Jennifer Conway of Stem, staff member Kelly Barker, student Rachel Gamble of Raleigh, staff member Gabrielle Norfleet, student Rachel Pottern of Wake Forest, staff member Susan Boos, student Ruthie Davis of Warrenton, Kristi Rowland, ... (more)

The North Carolina Department of Transportation has awarded a $3 million contract to Taylor & Murphy Construction Company Inc.

Whether you grow your own produce or plan to buy produce at our local farmer's markets, if you will be canning or freezing it, you won't want to miss N.C. Cooperative Extension's "Can It and Freeze It Workshops" scheduled for June 4 and 11 from 6-8:15 p.m. Learn the USDA techniques that, when followed, will assure you of safe products.

State Rep. Jim Crawford's television ad two months ago said he "fights for what's right even when it means standing alone." Politics are a mean game, even for a 28-year member of the General Assembly.

It was payback time for state Rep. Jim Crawford, a conservative Democrat from Oxford who crossed Planned Parenthood with his flip vote for the controversial abortion bill last year.

Sheriff Brindell Wilkins said the department got a tip Sunday morning about the operation off N.C. 96 south of Oxford and near the Tar River.