Seaboard News

Retiring Assistant Superintendent Phil A. Matthews received the highest number of votes in his bid for election to the Northampton County Board of Education during Tuesday's Primary.

Two cars carrying members from the same family crashed in Northampton County Wednesday afternoon, killing a mother and her 13-year-old son.

The body of a 12-year-old boy was recovered from a wastewater pond in Seaboard just before 11:30 a.m. Saturday.

Police early Saturday arrested Raeford Junior McNeill, 26, of 102 Hillcrest Dr. on attempted murder, robber and burglary charges filed by sheriff's deputies in Columbia, S.C., in connection with a break-in in which they said a man was shot three times.

Two men have been returned to North Carolina to face charges that they stabbed a third man in the chest earlier this month, forced him into a car and robbed him.