Wayne County News

The monument, a six-foot tall stone stele, stands in the median of a Belgian highway.

Goldsboro is listed on the This Old House Web site as one of the best places in the country to find an older home ready for refurbishing.

An additional $78,000 in property taxes from the new Wal-Mart and additional development at that site account for about 43 percent of an $181,000 increase in the Town of Mount Olive's $2,930,751 general fund ...

Child care professionals, advocates, parents and business leaders from Wayne County were among those who traveled to Raleigh Tuesday to meet with the legislators in the N.C. General Assembly.

Agents of the cooperative Goldsboro-Wayne County Drug Squad led a raid that Sheriff Carey Winders called the largest drug bust so far this year.

Six people were arrested by Mount Olive Police in a drug round-up Monday, including a fugitive from a past drug round-up who absconded last October, Police Chief Ralph Schroeder said.

Thursday, 2008 Dudley man reports theft of an ATV 26 June 2008 Allen Thompson of 212 Coral Drive, Dudley reported the theft of a 2005 blue and white Yamaha ATV on Wednesday.

The Wayne County Sheriff's Office tells Nine On Your Side that they arrested 28 year old Derrick Omega Young of Goldsboro on numerous drug related charges.

A meeting between a Dudley man and a woman he knew allegedly turned into a kidnapping and repeated rape at his home, authorities said.

The Walnut Creek Village Council approved its 2008-09 budget Wednesday, one that does not include a property tax increase or a water rate increase.

Hey, read the rules! The skeletal remains found last November in Wayne County have been identified as those belonging to a man who disappeared four years ago.

Submitted by ryanteaguebeckwith on June 24, 2008 - 10:00pm. Mary Fant Donnan won by a two-to-one margin.

Snow Hill's mayor defeated a state Board of Education member in a runoff election Tuesday to go on to fight in November for a seat in the state Senate.

North Carolina voters headed to the polls today to choose a Democratic challenger to Republican Labor Commissioner Cherie Berry.

Downtown Goldsboro went to the dogs Tuesday. The Ice Cream Social and Pet Parade sponsored by the Downtown Goldsboro Development Corp., the Wayne County Animal Shelter, the Humane Society and Diamonds in the ...

Wayne County Sheriff Carey Winders said he wants the public to understand why he is asking county commissioners for eight new deputies during a time of tight budgets and shrinking revenues.

A $162 million budget complete with a 2.3-percent across-the-board pay increase for county employees, additional deputies for the Sheriff's Office, higher landfill fees and funding for a summer school program ...

Wayne County commissioners Thursday had plenty of praise for the job Sheriff Carey Winders and his officers are doing, but held out little hope that the county will come up with almost a half-million dollars ...

Four young men and two teens have spent the last few months ransacking cars, yards, businesses and one home in their neighborhoods, authorities allege.

That is exactly what the Town of Mount Olive plans to do, at least on a small scale.