- A little girl, a friend of my own children, was struck and killed by a car on Sand Ridge Road early Monday morning while waiting for the school bus. Just like other recent situations, it sucks when I get a phone call and start running information down to find out the persons involved are not strangers, but live down [...]

A 18-year-old former homecoming queen at Richlands High School was killed New Year’s Eve during a hit and run. The Highway Patrol continues to work on the case but needs help. Read the news article here. Sgt. M.W. King with the N.C. Highway Patrol told Suzanne Ulbrich: “It appears she was in the travel lane. [...]

This was supposed to be some long, college-level thesis on how news articles come together, but I am tired and have a long day tomorrow, so here are the bare bones: News articles often have only one name in the byline, but – believe you me – it takes a lot more people than that [...]

You people are trying to get me into trouble. It seems like every single time I get in the car someone sends me a text message – or 10. It is now illegal in North Carolina to read texts, e-mail or the Web while driving. And prosecutors are taking it seriously. Read news here. And [...]

Today, the Onslow County Sheriff’s Department picked up a Havelock man who made four sales to a reliable informant. The odd part? He brought his kid with him. Read news here. As I told our city editor Timmi Toler after her blotter lesson, I’m all for someone making a living. However, don’t break laws and, [...]

Weekend wrecks lead to a crazy Monday. An Onslow Sheriff’s Deputy was involved in a single-car wreck Sunday night, a 18-year-old Swansboro man allegedly crossed over the center line on NC 58 and hit a Suburban causing fatal injuries to a 62-year-old Wilson woman, and a 41-year-old Newport man flipped his Chevy multiple times and [...]

A light armored vehicle from Camp Lejeune was involved in a wreck early this morning. WITN had the story first at 5:50 a.m. Unfortunately, when I got in the trooper had already gone home so we are waiting on the bulk of the information until 4 p.m. when he returns. Read news here

Hey guys It’s late and everyone’s gone, including the paper, so here’s a release about a wreck I just got: At approximately 4:30 P.M. on June 7th, officers responded to the Martin Luther King portion of the NC 24 Bypass in reference to a single motorcycle collision. Preliminary investigation shows the motorcycle went off the [...]

This has been turned in as a brief, but until then… Sgt. Levi A. Gundy died of severe head trauma following a motor vehicle wreck early Sunday, acccording to information from New River Air Station. Gundy was driving on Dawson Cabin Road, near the air station, at approximately 3 a.m. Sunday when he went into [...]

While I doubt y’all will like hearing from me more than Lindell, here I am. haha. I ask that for tonight you bear with me as it’s almost midnight, I worked 11 hours and then came home and updated the hell out of Lejeune Deployed. But first, I want to say thanks to Lindell for [...]