The Pentagon’s inspector general is criticizing Camp Lejeune officials for inadequate and incomplete handling of Lance Cpl. Maria Lauterbach’s rape complaint against Cpl. Cesar Laurean, who later murdered her. Read the news. The report found that the details of Lauterbach’s rape complaint were not entered into a database maintained by the base’s Sexual Assault and Prevention Response [...]

In discussion of my column about Sheriff Ed Brown firing deputies he thinks are involved in extra-martital affairs, which appeared in Monday’s edition of the newspaper and is available online, several people have brought up Brown being fired from the local police department. Some folks have alluded online to Brown somehow being involved in an affair [...]

A would-be robber in a Spider-Man mask wielding a sword was taken down Wednesday by a woman with a broom. Read the news. Forget that the guy allegedly had a Samurai sword and still got a beat down, I find it hilarious that the crime scene was within web-spinner range of the guy’s home. Sheriff’s Sgt. David South’s [...]

A Jacksonville man – who hasn’t lived here in a while because he’s been on the lam – is accused of killing a Virginia man by running him off the interstate in a road rage incident. Read the news. Sessoms and his girlfriend (accussed of hiding pills in her bra): The real question authorities should [...]

George Hayden, convicted last year of the 1972 shooting death of Sgt. Bill Miller, was released by the N.C. Department of Correction shortly after the N.C. Supreme Court declined to hear the state’s argument against the Appeals Court overturning an Onslow County jury verdict. Hayden has been home for a few days. He has spent [...]

Sheriff Ed Brown says he’s not moving into his new diggs until his nine-item punchlist is complete. Read the news. During a pretty intense county commissioners meeting Thursday, Brown presented his list to the board after they denied his request to self-install bullet-resistant glass in his office, his receptionist’s office and the communication room — all [...]

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 [...]