Johnston County News

Orange County firefighters responded to four house fires overnight, Raleigh units battled one and Johnston County firefighters responded to a blazing abandoned building as wind gusts in the Triangle topped 30 mph.

A deputy clerk to the Johnston County Board of Commissioners has been suspended after her arrest last week on drug charges.

Clayton High School student body president Paola Rodriguez can still recall the time when a woman at a local school board meeting stood up to complain that Riverwood's test scores were falling 'because of all the Mexicans.' Rodriguez, only 11 at the time, said she'll never forget her own mother confronting that woman in front of everyone – ... (more)

Florida trucker Ed Malone fills his diesel fuel tanks in South Carolina or Virginia on the drive up Interstate 95, to avoid paying North Carolina's higher fuel tax.

Wake County sheriff's deputies arrested a 19-year-old man wanted in Franklin County on charges that he broke into a dozen vehicles last November and stole guns, computers, cameras and a flat-screen TV.

By March 1, both Clayton Fire Department stations will have 24/7 engine companies ready to leave directly from the station to answer after-hours emergencies.

Area gardeners may have suspected odd weather when their rare palms, gingers and bottle brushes - which had no business growing this far north - actually survived a North Carolina winter.

To get Caterpillar to update its product development center in Clayton and expand its manufacturing plant, the town will reimburse the company with substantial tax payments in the next seven years.

By Cliff Bellamy cbellamy@heraldsun.com; 419-6744 DURHAM - Want to see an alternative version of what happened to Marilyn Monroe in 1962? Canadian filmmaker Brian MacDonald provides it in "Murder and UFOs," a roughly 20-minute film starring Monroe, Jack and Robert Kennedy, mobster Sam Giancana, and aliens.

Police had arrested 21-year-old Christopher John Austin early Saturday and charged him with possession with intent to sell marijuana.

Police arrested a man early Saturday on charges that he jumped a $100,000 bond and failed to appear in court in Johnston County to answer charges of manufacturing and possessing methamphetamine and possessing materials used to make the drug.

The possibility of tolls being implemented on Interstate I-95 near their community isn't going over big with town officials.

View Photo Gallery - In Smithfield, N.C., protesters regularly gather at the small airport to press their demand for an investigation into Aero Contractors, a private company that is rumored to have ties to the CIA and its "extraordinary rendition" program of secret detentions.

A Johnston County Sheriff’s deputy responded to a complaint in the area and discovered the still, according to Patty McQuillan, spokesperson for the North Carolina Alcohol Law Enforcement.

A two-vehicle accident in front of Corinth Holders High School was reported at 6:48 a.m. according to the Johnston County Emergency communications office.

Jerry Long didn't appear to disagree with the state Department of Transportation's plans for making $4.4 billion in improvements to Interstate 95.

While visiting a church in Alamance County recently, a friend told Kim Wellons she was concerned that her granddaughter had been put in a dual language kindergarten class, where half of her lessons are Spanish and the other half in English.

The N.C. Department of Transportation will hold an informal public hearing from 4-7 p.m. Monday, Feb.

A two-vehicle accident in front of Corinth Holders High School was reported at 6:48 a.m. according to the Johnston County Emergency communications office.

Developers are taking the Clayton building that houses the store that the Johnston County chapter of Habitat for Humanity uses to generate revenue for its projects.