This photo cleaned up enough to show the car that rolled last weekend in Bear Creek:   Took this photo on my phone Saturday night: Drowned out by all the spotlights is a smashed-up, rolled-over car. The trooper at the scene – Bear Creek Road between Bogue House II and my living room in Hubert [...]

This photo – taken in moving traffic over the back of a flatbed truck – shows JPD Chief Mike Yaniero pulling over a cabbie on Tuesday afternoon: Mike McHugh and I were on the way to the courthouse and couldn’t stop, but I called Yaniero. He said the guy littered right in front of him [...]

This morning’s deadly house fire killed three children and hospitalized five more along with their mother. Read the news. Photos taken at the scene: Still smoldering at 6:40 a.m.: Putting out the last of the flames: U.S. 17 traffic control: Overhauling the house: Long, hot day: Norman Bryson, director of Onslow County Emergency Services, and [...]

Chuck Carnes and three other deputies were promoted Tuesday at the Onslow County Sheriff’s Office. Sheriff Ed Brown said Chuck reminded him of himself at that age and if ”someone is going to get into something, it’ll be Chuck.”  Carnes addressing the deputies and other members of the public at the ceremony: – -Carnes flanked by [...]

Assistant District Attorney J.B. Askins marks evidence - a bill of sale and other documents related to Robert Lewis’ purchase of the Glock his 3-year-old son later used to accidentally shoot himself in the head – during Lewis’ manslaughter trial Tuesday.  The Glock 22 .40-caliber handgun cost $500 and some change.

Johnathan Gould enters the Onslow County Superior Courtroom Tuesday: Prosecutors say Gould beat his wife nearly to death with a hammer last year. She was in the courtroom Tuesday sitting on the back row with family. Gould and his attorney, Jacksonville lawyer Billy J. Morgan: Thanks to Daily News photographer Don Bryan for the outstanding courtroom pictures.

It’s not good news for the bad guys when these two agencies get together. Onslow County Sheriff’s Capt. Pat Garvey and Jacksonville police detective Dave Miltier.

Mike McHugh’s idea of funny. Me no laugh.

My wife was cleaning out some old boxes and came across this old photo of me riding my brother’s Harley:

Onslow County Sheriff Ed Brown in the sky tunnel that links the Onslow County Jail and the District Courthouse.

It is really hard sometimes for reporters to convince editors that they know what they are talking about. Here is WITN’s Chelsea Donovan and WNCT’s Parul Joshi trying to explain over their cell phones earlier today how the Gumbranch gunman could not have shot himself if he was aiming at the police.

WITN’s Chelsea Donovan and Onslow County Sheriff Ed Brown argue over who’s getting the top bunk:

On the way home from Wilmington.

Sometimes, good things happen in Jacksonville. On Thursday afternoon, Plaza Manor had a block party to encourage community bonding and show kids there is more to life than crime. The JPD were there as well as Daily News photography Chuck Beckley. Check out these pics of the party. Click the thumbnails for larger images.           [...]

Mike McHugh has returned from his week-long sabbatical in New York City. Here is a cool photo he snapped of New York’s finest. Click on the picture to see a larger version. While he has some funny stories to tell about his furlough, I bet y’all want to hear about his extracurricular reading first. I [...]

Jacksonville attorney Dick McNeal looking through boxes of evidence discovery material in his client’s case. Prosecutors plan to show Cesar Laurean killed Maria Lauterbach. The materials were handed over by Senior Assistant Distict Attorney Mike Maultsby on Tuesday. The state would not supply McNeil with discovery until Laurean was back in North Carolina.

From time to time I like to plug Jennifer Hlad’s blog. Trust me she doesn’t need it, but it gives me an excuse to steal a few of the coolest photos From the ‘stan and post them here. If you haven’t seen her blog, you really should. I don’t know anyone in the 24th MEU [...]

No this isn’t a deleted scene from “Goodfellas.” This is Eddie Atalla, owner of three premium cigar shops in Jacksonville. A lot of the people I meet on the job are, to put it plainly, not nice people. That’s why Mr. Atalla was a pleasant surprise. I was out Sunday looking for some local tobacco smokers to talk [...]

The JPD are on the hunt for an attempted bank robber. Read the news article here. People posting comments on the news story – made before police released the suspect’s photo – eluded that they expected the robber to be black. So, I wonder, what does it do to the mind of a white racist when the [...]

On the phone Friday: Chief Photog John Althouse testing out his new camera. And no, it didn’t break.

Michelle Obama was in town today campaigning for her husband. Did I take pictures? Of course I took pictures. Click on thumbnails for larger photos. Obama speaks to 1,500 supporters at Jacksonville Commons. JFD Fire Marshal John Reed said he estimated there was another 200 people outside that couldn’t get in. JPD Capt. Tim Malfitano checks [...]

These chairs sat in front of retired JPD Chief Roger Halbert’s desk for 20 years. They now sit in JPD Deputy Chiefs David Shipp and Paul Spring’s offices. Halbert passed away Sunday and the cops had a lot of fond stories to tell about him Monday. The printable ones are here. Sitting in one of [...]

This is not the Jersey I remember from my heady days stationed at the Philly Naval Yards. But Mike McHugh – stylish in his Popeye Doyle hat, cob of corn and blue tee-shirt – swears he was just a short distance from the White Horse Pike when this photo was snapped Saturday.

Paparazzi caught up to Mike McHuch in New York City today. One photographer I talked to said that McHugh was the first celebrity he ever snapped with his Nikon that actually stopped and posed.

Some of the weed from Monday’s bust. I did not take any.

I rode up to Raleigh on Friday with the sheriff to attend Clyde Cook’s swearing in ceremony as the new U.S. Marshal of Eastern North Carolina. Here Cook and Ed Brown talk about Cook’s father, the man who as then-Jacksonville police chief gave Brown his first law enforcement job in 1967. I wrote a previous [...]

Daily News photographer John Althouse busted this guy violating child labor laws by bringing his daughter to work and forcing her to clean up his desk. Names were not released.

N.C. Lt. Gov. Bev Purdue was in Jacksonville today for the ribbon-cutting ceremony on the new hospital pavilion. Here she is with one of her state police bodyguards: I asked Don Bryan to snap me a photo of her and her state police bodyguard. And here it is. Not really a point to it, but [...]