Williamston News

The Lieutenant Governor continues his focus on jobs and education Wednesday. Walter Dalton's panel will meet at the Bob Martin Ag Center in Williamston this afternoon.

On Thursday, deputies with the Martin County Sheriffa s Office, officers with the Williamston Police Department, officers with the Robersonville Police Department and Agents with North Carolina A.L.E. conducted a joint operation in Martin County titled a oeStreet Sweeper 2.a As you recall from WITN's coverage in October, a previous "Street Sweeper" ...

He knew he found him. "I said man, the whole county is looking for you guys," Walter Welsh said.

Published: Monday, November 9, 2009 at 4:30 a.m. Last Modified: Sunday, November 8, 2009 at 5:26 p.m. Rhododendron Society The Southeastern Rhododendron Society is meeting at 2 p.m. on Saturday, Dec.

" A recent concern by the North Carolina Department of Labor has led Gates County officials to launch a process that will rid several county-owned buildings of lead-based paint and small amounts of asbestos.

Governor Beverly Perdue has ordered the state to prohibit the scheduled release of 20 inmates from state prisons Thursday.

Shots rang out in one Martin County neighborhood, with one of those bullets striking a 12-year-old. It happened around 10:40 p.m. on Bailey Road outside of Williamston.

" Another inmate currently serving a life sentence for the 1975 slaying of a local North Carolina Highway Patrol Trooper has been added to a growing list of prisoners that may soon be granted their freedom.

Thousand of dollars in stolen goods have been recovered and two men are in jail, charged with multiple counts of breaking and entering In Martin County.

" Despite being on another continent, North Carolina Governor Beverly Perdue refuses to sit still in regards to next week's scheduled release of 20 prisoners serving life terms.

An off-duty Elizabeth City police officer who may have swerved to avoid a deer was killed early Sunday in a single-vehicle traffic accident in Bertie County.

N.C. Sen. A.B. Swindell has been appointed vice chairman of a new commission designed to give high school students more marketable job skills.

Slippery definitions of "life sentence" will lead to inmates convicted of serious crimes in the 1970s being released October 19, 2009 9:56 AM Politicians sometimes like to invoke the term "fuzzy math" when it comes to criticizing their opponents' tax or spending policies.

Faye B. Brown, 56, has been locked up in North Carolina since 1977, convicted of first degree murder for shooting and killing a state trooper in Williamston while fleeing a bank robbery.

Mary Lou Spruill Combs, formerly of Stafford County, died Wednesday, Sept. 30, 2009, in Williamston, N.C. Mary Lou was born in Columbia, N.C., on Jan.

Boosters of North Carolina's horse industry are making their case in rural communities that taxpayer money would increase jobs in a field already expanding.

On Tuesday, Oct. 6, a new license plate agency will open in Williamston, offering full vehicle registration and titling services, as well as license plates and registration stickers.

Evelyn DeLoatch jokes that after Oct. 1, she'll actually be on time. Like most working mothers, DeLoatch has felt the tug between family and career.

A Martin County teacher is due in court today on charges police found child pornography at his home.

Martin County Animal Control is setting up emergency rabies clinics this weekend so pet owners can get their animals vaccinated.