Swansboro News

Chandler Joshua Harrington, 16, of Hammocks Beach Road in Swansboro, was charged Saturday by the Swansboro Police Department with four counts of embezzlement.

NOTICE OF SALE NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT NORTH STATE STORAGE SWANSBORO, LLC Intends to sell the personal property of persons described below to enforce a lien imposed, for unpaid rent at the self-storage facility, on said property pursuant to Article 4 subsection G.S. 44A-43 of the North Carolina Self Service Storage Facility Act.

Stephen Andrew Ross, 19, of Hadnot Creek Road in Swansboro, was charged Friday by the Onslow County Sheriff's Office with statutory rape/sexual offense defendant greater than four years and less than six years and two counts contributing to the delinquency of a juvenile.

Michael receives a dental screening by Julia Torres, a student from Coastal Carolina Community College Dental Hygiene program, during the 2012 Veterans' Stand-down at the American Legion Building in Jacksonville.

Residents of Swansboro will experience a drop in water pressure or a complete outage Monday while crews repair a water main.

I wasn't planning to jump in - pardon the pun - on the simmering debate regarding the proposed name change to the Swansboro Mullet Festival.

An elderly Swansboro man will remain in jail until his trial in the shooting death of a woman earlier this week.

Onslow Water and Sewer Authority is advising some residents in the Swansboro area may experience periods of low or no water pressure on Monday, as crews make repairs to the water main.

A Marine riding a motorcycle and hit by a truck on Bear Creek Road Wednesday did not sustain life-threatening injuries, according to Highway Patrol officials.

Police have arrested the man they say killed a woman from Kalamazoo found shot to death in North Carolina on Monday.

According to Onslow County Animal Services Director Alan Davis, the first positive rabies case in Onslow County in 2012 has been found in a domestic cat.

John Giltz, 66, of S. Dogwood Lane, was charged Thursday by the Swansboro Police Department with one open count of murder.

SPD detective Ken Jackson would not say whether a suspect was in custody in relation to the shooting, but made clear there was no danger to the public.

Authorities are not yet releasing many details on the death. We do know it happened on Dogwood Road, a quiet cul-de-sac of neat one-story homes in a subdivision off Old Hammock Road.

Five days a week, Francis "Mac" McRackan swings an 86-year-old leg over the crossbar of his red Specialized, pushes an 86-year-old foot down on the pedal and scoots his 86-year-old body down the Crabtree Creek greenway - 10 proud miles at a time.

The town Board of Commissioners voted at its January workshop to abandon plans to construct a dock facility at Ward Shore Park on Water Street that would have provided five boat slips for transient vessels 26 feet or larger.

Two officers have accomplished all of the requirements to receive higher-level certifications from the North Carolina Standards and Training Division.

I'm not certain if it was his first mission over enemy territory in 1944 or during one of his subsequent 39 missions aboard a B-24 over Nazi Germany and occupied France, but my father-in-law, Russell K. Bond Sr., could easily have been accused of war crimes, as war crimes are measured today.

It may be winter but for some area attractions and businesses, work and play is better with sunshine and warm temperatures.

BLACK/GOLD Banquet hosted by NABVETs No. 0069 from 6 to 9 p.m. Feb. 4 at the USO, 9 Tallman St., with speaker Ivey Stokes and music by Temple Singers and Brenda Bey.