Jones County News

For years, Maureen "Gypsy" Smith's neighbors have been coming to her house's kitchen for comfort and conversation over coffee and pie made in her kitchen.

Local Alcohol Beverage Control general manager pay pales in comparison to New Hanover County's ABC administrator, whose $232,200 yearly salary sparked a state investigation when revealed by an area newspaper earlier this week.

Businesses around Jacksonville are giving locals the chance to be a Christmas angel to a needy child.

Traffic was snarled down to one lane on Highway 17 in Jones County Monday afternoon after a SUV ended up wedged underneath a FedEx delivery truck.

Two people, one of them just 16 years old, are charged with an armed robbery early Saturday morning in Jacksonville.

Dressed in a black-and-white tuxedo with a bowtie around her neck, Anne Hicks sliced a turkey and heaped the glistening meat onto the plates of students, teachers and administrators lined up in Jones Senior High School's gymnasium.

SINGLES SUPPORT Group meets at 6:30 p.m. Nov. 18 at Pizza Hut, 1301 Gum Branch Road.

Questions about who was in charge at February cooperative law enforcement drivers checkpoint in Bridgeton is at the core of a Craven County woman's defense against a driving while impaired charge now in District Court.

A Maysville man appeared in court Thursday on charges he tried to strangle a Jacksonville woman in September.

Lenoir County resident Brian Burks said he was one of the last to see Miller Jones before he went missing Saturday.

All lanes of U.S. 17 in Jones County, north of Pollocksville, are currently congested due to flooding, according to the North Carolina Department of Transportation.

Gov. Bev Perdue announced Thursday that state and local law enforcement officers removed 816 impaired drivers from state roadways during the Halloween "Booze It & Lose It" campaign, which ran Oct.

HARVEST FEST/ Trunk or Treat at First Christian Church, Richlands, from 6 to 8 p.m. Oct.

A house fire Tuesday afternoon has closed down traffic on Highway 17 in Jones County.

Most of the 21 members of the Military Growth Task Force are expected at a meeting in Trenton Thursday, the first with Mark Sutherland as director and one expected to finalize the draft Regional Growth Management Plan.

Two days from now, voters in 10 local municipalities will head to the polls and, with the push of a button, choose their leaders for the next two to four years.

Down the stretch ... Today is the last day to vote early before Tuesday's runoffs and elections.

Mayoral candidate Lee Bettis says an anonymous fax that lists 10 misdemeanor charges against him is "dirty pool" in New Bern, and that he has never been convicted of any alcohol-related offenses, the most serious items on that list.

Jones County authorities have netted and put down four dogs implicated in an attack on a local woman last week.

On Tuesday, a Jones County physical science teacher who was charged with nine felonies was sentenced in Lenoir County Superior Court.