Piney Green News

Learn about offshore lures at the monthly meeting of a local fishing group. The Onslow Bay Saltwater Fishing Club will meet Thursday at The Golden Corral of Piney Green, located on N.C. 24.

While Jacksonville residents may feel the sting of the property tax increase from the county, they won't be getting hit with a tax increase on the city side of things.

U.S. Marine veteran Mary Ann Campbell recently moved out of a tent in the woods behind Piney Green Shopping Center into a travel trailer in Hubert.

Hello, friends and neighbors. It is good to see you here. In 1997, I wrote a story about Alfonso Sutton Jr., a Swansboro High School student who was performing at the Infant of Prague Catholic Church.

For some people law enforcement is a job, for others it is a tradition. Every shift Larry Johnson Jr., a patrol deputy with the Onslow County Sheriff's Department, works, he pins his father's name tag to his uniform.

County firefighters spent Saturday afternoon in Hubert extinguishing an out-of-control controlled burn.

Two separate wrecks snarled traffic in and around Jacksonville this morning. The first happened about 8 a.m. when a SUV heading east crossed all four lanes of N.C. 24 and flipped into a ditch, said Norman Bryson, interim emergency manager for Onslow County.

A stove fire inside a Bellawoods area mobile home injured a woman this afternoon.

Onslow County smokers are not happy about the latest federal tax hike on tobacco, but don't expect any Boston Tea Party-type protests anytime soon.

The wife of a Jacksonville man accused of taking nude photos of an intoxicated teenager has been implicated in the crime.

Three local volunteer fire departments have received Federal Emergency Management Agency grants for 2008 to help offset the cost of equipment needed to do their jobs.

Onslow County Sheriff's Detectives say they have solved several recent vehicle break-ins in the Piney Green area with the Friday night arrest of two Jacksonville men.

Three Midway Park men indicted last week in the June 2008 brutal slaying of a homeless man claim they did it because they heard the man had kissed an 8-year-old girl, according to court records made public ...

A Piney Green Road resident tried to burn house trash and ended up burning his garage instead, a volunteer fire department official said.

Onslow County Crime Stoppers broke records and charted new territory in 2008, and program members say they hope to do more in 2009.

Hey, read the rules! Three fire departments in our area get some major funds to help improve their forces.

A Marine from Camp Lejeune, N.C., is in jail after allegedly pointing a handgun at people working along a local road and shouting "Who wants to die?" Lance Cpl.

Authorities say a Jacksonville man terrorized a group of road workers with a handgun during a road rage incident Wednesday.

Traffic getting onto Camp Lejeune in the morning increased substantially recently, causing at least two platoons to change their work schedule to avoid the rush.

As the military and civilian workforce at Camp Lejeune, N.C., continues to grow, so does traffic going on and off the base.