Warsaw News

The luck of the Irish was with a parachutist at Saturday's Saint Patrick's Day parade in Raleigh.

Two teenagers were sentenced in the death of another Warsaw teen in July 2008, concluding a case that saw two others given time behind bars in the shooting death.

A Swansboro woman has turned her favorite pastime into a fulltime business. Terri Stillson has operated the Bead Shop of Jacksonville since 2006 in the Jacksonville Antique Mall on Henderson Drive.

By Billy Todd Sampson Independent KENANSVILLE - In its second special called meeting within a week, the Duplin County Board of Education voted Tuesday night to build a new, consolidated high school.

By Chris Berendt Staff Writer Four local men are facing federal sentences after three pleaded guilty to firearms and drugs charges and another was found guilty at trial, stemming from a months-long, multi-agency investigation into drug activity on Jacobs Street culminated in an early 2008 raid.

Onslow County collectively shrugged Friday. Reaction to snow in the forecast ranged from moderately concerned to indifferent.

A Warsaw teenager will serve at least 10 years in prison in the murder of another teen, shot to death as he talked with friends near a local apartment complex in July 2008.

James Sprunt president Dr. Lawrence Rouse came before the Duplin County Board of Commissioners seeking approval to make needed changes to the WestPark facility located in Warsaw.

Two Warsaw men have pleaded guilty to accessory after the fact to second degree murder in the July 3, 2008 shooting death of Derrick Shonte Barden.

Two of four men charged in the 2008 murder of a Duplin County football player have pleaded guilty.

On a recent camping trip with his son's Cub Scout troop, Curtis Barwick ended a talk about his job managing contracts for the now-bankrupt Coharie Hog Farms with a desperate plea.

WARSAW a ' Duplin County Schools superintendent Dr. Wiley Doby will not seek renewal of his contract, which ends June 30.

The voter turnout in Duplin County municipal elections was slightly less than 21 percent with write-in candidates winning in Calypso and Warsaw.

With much fanfare and festivity, the small town of Warsaw will continue America's longest consecutive Veterans Day celebration on Saturday, Nov.

A local man has pleaded guilty to making false statements to investigators about his involvement in a check-cashing operation that amassed nearly $1.4 million over a two-month period at his Warsaw business.

Matt Griffith stocks the counter with fresh cut grouper at Motts Channel Seafood on Thursday Aug.

Wheels were set in motion last week for the Warsaw town board to apply for $2.4 million in USDA funding to help upgrade its water treatment/sewer plant Interim town manager Tommy Combs discussed briefly where the town is currently in the process of making improvements to the Kings Court well and the water/sewer treatment plant.

In a position not unfamiliar to him, Tommy Combs, Warsaw's interim town manager, presented the town board his first report and update during Monday night's meeting.

There are more than 35 years of service between the two individuals selected to the top spots in education for Duplin County this year.

Thomas Wolfe said you can never go home again, but Warsaw town manager Jason Burrell is headed back to an area closer to his native town and someone of special interest, as he has tendered his resignation to accept the assistant manager's position in the town of Canton.