The newsroom did an excellent job covering a weekend twister that damaged more than 170 homes in Onslow County. Where was I? Playing video games with the kids. I had promised my wife I’d unplug and that’s what I did. While Hubert recieved very little rain, all hell was breaking loose just  few miles away along Piney [...]

I made a major error in reporting on the Lawrence Dowsing murder trial in today’s newspaper. The online story has been corrected and I will add a correction with the story I put in Saturday’s paper. Read the corrected article here. Police found a pair of bloody jeans in the defendant’s home. I incorrectly identified [...]

I know I am behind on this one, but I got tired of hearing my editors ask me when I was going to turn in a story “because (so-and-so) has it on Twitter already.” OK. I give up. I signed up for Twitter early this morning with the user name 1lindell. I will be posting [...]

Two Richlands men have been charged with a  Thursday night drive-by shooting that left a Richlands woman recovering from a gunshot wound. Read news here Jordan Weil was convicted of accessory after the fact in August 2006, and is currently on probation. I tend to think that a drive-by qualifies as a probation violation. According to [...]

I owe an apology to JPD Capt. Billy Houston. I was so incredibly tired Friday night when I submitted caption information on a wreck photo that Chuck Beckley took that I incorrectly listed Houston’s first name. I have been working with Capt. Houston for more than two years. I shouldn’t get his name wrong. But Friday, [...]

I was supposed to be attaching this disclaimer to the end of all my posts, but somewhere along the lines, I forgot and stopped doing it. Anyway, this disclaimer applies to past, present and future posts. Y’all have been behaving yourselves for the most part, but I have to put this out there just in [...]

My company cell phone finally crapped the bed this morning. I have really overworked it in the last year. And no, for the hundredth time today, I didn’t have everyone’s number stored somewhere else. Good news: I will have a new cell with the same number in a few days. Bad news: The 300 plus cell phone numbers [...]

At around 6:45 p.m. Tuesday, I received a phone call from WITN-TV’s Chelsea Donovan and WNCT-TV’s Laura Vesco. They told me the courthouse – the traditional place the media, public, and candidates hang out on election night – was so packed they couldn’t get in. I was tied up writing one of three articles I [...]

Okay, Sometimes I am a jerk and don’t even know it. I mean most times when I’m a jerk, it’s intentional, but this was not one of those times. My oldest brother, Dan lives out in Seattle or somewhere. He stumbled across this blog while looking me up on the Internet to see what I [...]

Just to show there are no special favors doled out by the JPD, they handed me a speeding ticket today. I was doing 36 in a 20, the officer said. I’m not sure what I was doing. I got pulled over right past city hall. It is so hard to do 20 mph in that [...]

In the Alden article that appeared in today’s newspaper, I assigned masculine pronouns to Sheriff’s Sgt. Shannon Albright. Sgt. Albright is a woman and I am an idiot. I wanted to apologize to her in public since I got it wrong in public. The upside to this – Albright must be one hell of a [...]

Some free advice (because we haven’t figured out how to charge you for reading the Internet yet): 1) Don’t leave your vehicle unattended at a bank. I met up with a member of the local bar for lunch. In the process, my vehicle got left at a bank on Western. In hindsight, I should have parked [...]