Daily news reporter Suzanne Ulbrich had a story in Monday’s paper about beach behavior that made me smile. Some people just do not understand why there are rules at the beach. But here’s what I want to know: WHAT ARE SOME OF THE THINGS YOU HATE SEEING AT THE BEACH? Now, I’m not talking the [...]

Hey guys I’m off for today and this has been kicked over to the boss to see what she wants done with it, but for now have at it: Onslow County Sheriff’s Office Press Release Date:  06-29-2009 Time:  17:00 Title:  Sheriff’s Deputies Serve Five Search Warrants Arrestees: Sean Smith 175-5 Wild Cat Pond Road Hubert, [...]

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 [...]

The blog has had technical problems and I have been unable to log-on to post anything all week. The suits and computer geeks have finally fix it. And now I got nothing to say… Actually there have been a lot of developments in cases we’ve covered on the blog. Here is a quick rundown of [...]

Daily News government reporter Molly K. DeWitt has a report online now about a sexually suggestive text message being sent from a female councilwomen’s cell phone to recently fired Jacksonville City Manager Kristoff Bauer. She claims someone stole her phone and sent the text as a joke. The text reads, “So when are you going to try [...]

Got a 4:30 a.m. call about an apartment fire and ended  up with this story. I was relieved to find John Althouse already on the scene when I got there. I  can take a picture in a pinch, but John is a real pro. And he got this exclusive video too. I am lucky – [...]

Wonder if they will finally have flying cars when Jason Blackmon breathes his first breath of free air in 45 years? When I was a kid they said there would be flying cars in the year 2000. Didn’t happen. Might have been all the oil companies buying up every non-fossil fuel idea that came down [...]

District Attorney Dewey Hudson came face-to-face with a jarring image this week – a dummy in a suit hanging from a gallows with his name pinned to it.  WITN’s Chelsea Donovan snapped this photo for me Thursday. Click on the thumbnail for a bigger image. Read news here. This is many people’s introduction to the Duplin [...]

Love him or hate him, Ohio Congressman Mike Turner continues to add teeth to military protective orders.   Last year he made it to where they were reportable to civilian authorities. This year, he has a bill close to a vote that will require the military to inform service members of their right to transfer [...]

As Lindell mentioned last week, all Freedom Communications employees have to take a week unpaid off. He took the rest of his last week, starting at 2 p.m. today I will be finishing mine. When Cyndi Brown first told me about furlough, I about cried. I work hard for what I get, am paying back [...]

The New York Daily News was first to report this today, but other news outlets caught on fast. Steve Rogers - gunned down on the steps of a lower Manhattan courthouse two years ago – is alive. CNN is reporting that a movie about Rogers is in the works for 2011, but the details are reportedly [...]

I wrote this article about the county considering laying off 20 deputies to keep from raising taxes. No sooner had I gotten home, taken a cat nap, yelled at the kids and went to Food Lion to pick up a onion than I got a phone call from a reader saying that the commissioners had [...]

When I wrote about a Hubert woman accused of dumping her alleged baby in the trash last year, her sister came out of the woodwork with some unsavory remarks for her and the family in general.  Brandy Sawyer She posted this on the blog Nov. 9, 2008 @ 6:56 p.m.: You are correct I am [...]

This is also posted on Lejeune Deployed Today I attended my first Purple Heart ceremony, and I’ve never had such an easy time writing a story. Asking questions, however, was an entirely different ball game. Read news here As I watched these Marines receive their Purple Hearts, two things occurred to me: They all look [...]

Some weekend shifts are pretty slow, but this weekend is not shaping up to be one of them. Today, Deanna Murphy and I headed towards the Vietnam Memorial dedication at about 10 a.m. to pull together a story about the dedication and Flag Day. From there, we went to the Jacksonville USO where the National [...]

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 [...]

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

I will be furloughed for the next five days. Corporate policy says I am to have no regular business contact. So I will be unplugged and asleep for the next few days.  Good for my state of mind; bad for the wallet. Anyway before I go, a few parting shots: Dick McNeil called me this [...]

In order to set the Wilmington news media straight, Pender County Sheriff Carson Smith has released personnel records of his deputy Mike Lewis. Lewis, it seems has gone off the reservation more than once when it comes to horses. Read the news here.   Lewis was warned about being a rogue deputy and finally demoted. [...]

Okay, so we all know Laurean is a big fan of The Daily News. He read an online article about Maria’s disappearance before he disappeared in mid-January 2008. And law enforcement tracked him through IP addresses viewing jdnews.com from Mexico. So how ironic is it that he can’t read the newspaper now? Well in Ed [...]

Former Marine Cesar Laurean will enter a plea of not guilty today at his arraignment, according to his attorney Dick McNeil. The entire thing is sort of anti-climatic because we all already know what will happen. The judge will read him his rights; he will plead not guilty; the prosecution will announce that they will [...]

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 [...]

I was about ready to do a jig since there were no felonies by Marines this weekend, but then it got ruined by one that decided to try and strangle his wife. Read news here. Apparently I have the luck of the Irish this weekend since every time I’ve gone to the magistrate’s office,  there’s [...]

Today the Red and Blue Knights hosted a memorial ride for Steve Boehm and Gene Thomas. More than 60 vehicles traveled from New River Harley Davidson on U.S. 17 to NC 210 to NC 50 to NC 53 and back to Harley. Near the end of the venture, it began to rain. As I sat [...]

I’m the lucky winner of the “Who works this weekend” contest, and I typically do my first check at the magistrate’s office before 2 p.m. Here are last night’s two felonious acts. Consider it a first glance at the next blotter portion of The Daily News.  Walter Chentlen Jr., 18, of Tarawa Terrace II, was charged Friday [...]

In case I haven’t mentioned it before, it’s a rarity something makes me want to hurl. But tonight, while checking blotter, a Jacksonville man accomplished that. A 24-year-old Jacksonville man was arrested today by the Onslow County Sheriff’s Department for taking indecent liberties with a 4-year-old girl and 5-year-old boy. Read news here. As I [...]

Get arrested again? Brandon Futrell was arrested in February for operating a meth lab, and apparently did not learn his lesson after being bonded out since he was arrested again Thursday night. Read news here. According to Capt. Jon Lewis with the OCSO’s Narcotics Unit, repeat offenders are pretty common when it comes to meth, since [...]

It’s a rarity that I come across a crime that actually intrigues me. However, a Holly Ridge man pulled that off tonight. Frank Edward Coston Jr. was arrested by the Sheriff’s Department today on multiple charges, including assault with a deadly weapon. The weapon of choice? His fists and feet. That’s the part caught my [...]

A 20-year-old Southwest High grad is in jail accused of murder for selling methadone to a Camp Lejeune Marine who overdosed. Both are female. Read the news here. The accused, Karen Davidson shares her lifestyle on her MySpace page: “PARTY PARTY PARTY! i L0VE MARYJANE. BEER P0NG iS THE BEST GAME EVERR iNVENTED. i HAVE [...]

There is at least one position cut by the county that has a lot of employees happy. Doug Freeman’s controversial, high-dollar job as the new jail project manager has come to a close. Read the news. I spoke to some deputies today who were happy to see the $70,000 job eliminated because they felt it should’ve never [...]

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 [...]

My favorite crime-related Web site, Blueline is undergoing some redesigns of its own. I am confident they will be as awesome as they are now. I won’t go all into it here, but the guys at Blueline are my heroes and the reason I ended up with this blog. Check them out when they come back online. 

An Onslow County jury found Michael Wolfe guilty of first-degree murder in the drowning death of his girlfriend. Read the news. ADA Kelly Neal presented a good case. I couldn’t sit through the entire week-long trial, but I popped in and out and listened to both closing arguments Tuesday. At times Neal seemed outmatched by Wolfe’s attorney Dick [...]

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 [...]

Unless you’ve been hiding under a rock or live way outside the newspaper’s coverage area, you know by now we have a new print format (and had a little trouble getting there). Some people won’t like it just because they are resistant to change. A few will have legitimate complaints. But I like the format. [...]