Some commenters on the news sight are calling a nice piece of police work by a JPD officer racial profiling. I don’t agree. Read the report. It seems most people are concentrating on the fact that it was three black men who were pulled over. I think what got them pulled over was not that [...]

A former Camp Lejeune Marine accused of beating his wife near to death with a hammer in December was let go by the Corps two months ago. Daily News reporter Amanda Hickey dug that little fact up while she was gathering news for a story we worked on together about Gould’s indictment earlier in the week. [...]

A Pender County Sheriff’s deputy took a demotion after calling in help in an animal case. He had also tried to buy one of the horses he later had seized. Read the story here. WECT-TV Now as if all that wasn’t enough to complicate this story, I spoke to the N.C. Dept. of Agriculture on [...]

A local cop / assistant football coach has been accused of stalking a 21-year-old woman. Read news here.

The Camp Lejeune Marine accused of beating his wife in the head with a hammer has been indicted and has an arraignment set. Read this news. ida90210 commented on the news story: “Too bad we don’t have legislation on the books already to be able to charge him with killing of the fetus too. So [...]

This guy just got of prison and might be looking for a job…

Check out this update on the school psychologist accused of having photos of nude boys. A Google Profile page lists his interests as a nudist. I don’t have a problem with nudists. But when children are involved it gets weird. WITN’s Ken Heineck spoke to an adopted son of the accused. The 18-year-old said nothing [...]

If you are going to allegedly take photos of nude boys, then you should buy a digital camera (or learn how to develop film in your basement like other creepy people). Daily News Carteret County reporter Jannette Pippin has an article online about a school psychologist busted with child porn while trying to get it [...]

Read this news article about a Camp Lejeune Marine accused of meeting with a 12-year-old girl and her YOUNGER sister. LadyofNC posted this comment on the news story: You can not blame the Marine in this.. Girls thse days look and act older than they are. I know because I have a teenager that looks [...]

A DNA test has confirmed what I reported more than a year ago on the blog. Cesar Laurean is not the father of Maria Lauterbach’s onborn child. Read the news here.

Read news here. He has been “administratively separated.”

“By agreement of the State and defense, the arraignment in the Cesar Laurean case has been rescheduled from May 18, 2009 to June 8, 2009,” District Attorney Dewey Hudson said in a statement to the press today. 

The Southwest-area man a deputy shot in March was drunk. Perhaps one of the drunkest men ever, if the tests were accurate. The Medical Examiner who performed the autopsy called me again this morning to reiterate what she said in the article. The 1030 mg/dL blood alcohol content may have been artificially elevated somehow, but the man was still drunker [...]

Judge Charles Henry has rescinded his gag order in the Cesar Laurean case. Read news here. Camp Lejeune sources say Laurean will be separated from the Marine Corps in about a week.

Today is Daily News military reporter and content editor Jennifer Hlad’s last day. Her and Capt. Toby are moving north. I will miss her very much. The newspaper will miss her too when she is gone. She covered the military better than anyone I have every seen and leaves some big shoes to fill. (Thank God it [...]

I was trying to hold out on this and put something together, but my editors caught wind and wanted the info out there, so here you go… Read the news here. I am sure I will be writing a real story before he leaves. For those of you that know him as only “Capt. Sutherland” [...]

The body of a teenage girl has been discovered on a set of railroad tracks in Jones County. Read the story here. – Photo from WITN.com.

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 [...]

This is my blog. It is opinionated. It is not a fair and balanced reporting medium. Therefor, I say that this man deserves to stay in prison for the rest of the life. Read the news about him here. I contacted the family of the victim, but did hear back from them in time to [...]