The Town of Spring Lake’s plans to hire the fired town manager of Kenly as its town manager has hit a snag.
In a 3-2 vote Monday night, the Town of Spring Lake Board of Aldermen voted in favor of hiring Justine Jones as its next town manager. Jones is the former Kenly town manager that was fired from the position in August.
North Carolina Attorney General Josh Stein is investigating a North Carolina-based solar panel company after leaving customers with thousands of dollars of malfunctioning equipment.
“Any material that we have had to purchase, 20% to 30% up on clamshells boxes, fertilizer over 100% up, fuel was crazy. Even this spring, with some of the crops bringing better pricing than last year, we still made more money last year because when you look at all of our costs with labor and everything being up, we didn’t do any better.” - Ron Cottle, Faison, N.C.
The former finance director and accounting technician for the Town of Spring Lake pled guilty Wednesday to embezzling over $500,000 from the Town of Spring Lake between 2016 and 2021.
In November’s midterm elections, the stakes are high in the two races for the North Carolina Supreme Court. The high court currently has a 4-3 Democrat majority, so if Republicans flip just one seat, the balance shifts on the court. In a relatively rare opportunity, the four candidates running for the N.C. Supreme Court were...
My first job out of college was assisting with military casework for former U.S. Congressman Gene Taylor in the Gulfport, Mississippi, district office. Not knowing the extent of the attack on our homeland, two FBI agents were guarding the doors of Congressman Taylor's office when I showed up that day.
Twenty-one years ago today, on Sept. 11 , 2001, I dropped my toddler and infant off at day care in a Virginia suburb of our nation's capital, completely preoccupied with the long commute into downtown. I was a reporter at Reuters Television covering North America. My newsroom was blocks from the White House and the Capitol.
I had just begun my junior year in high school when America’s aura of invincibility ended for my generation on the morning of Sept. 11, 2001. Even back then, I was an avid follower of politics and world events — one of the few kids to watch the nightly news and read Drudge. But 9/11...
The alleged misconduct of a Johnston County School Board member has uncovered the alleged wrongdoing of other board members, including attempting to hide taxpayer money.
Republican incumbent Tariq Bokhari (pictured) won the District 6 race, but Democrats kept a firm foothold in Charlotte’s election Tuesday, July 26, as they won the mayoral race and city council at-large seats.
