Newport teen hurt in house fire listed in fair condition
Chris Fletcher, 15, suffered upper body burns after a fire started in his bedroom on Wesley Lane while he played with a lighter. His mother and sister helped him outside, rolled him on the ground, and used a garden hose to extinguish flames before firefighters arrived. The incident caused minor heat and smoke damage beyond the bedroom.
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Newport
Jaycee
UNC Hospitals
Chapel Hill
Chris Fletcher
Wesley Lane
Fletcher
Steve Gould
Chris
Gould
Arrest order withdrawn after appearance waived in Craven case
Michael Smith Wood twenty of 4804 Morton Road had an arrest order withdrawn after his attorney David P Voerman filed a waiver of first appearance. Wood is charged with assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill for a July 16 shooting that left Jason Everett Emerson eighteen wounded at a private gathering where owners were away. Emerson has since been released from Craven Regional Medical Center.
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Craven County District Court
David P. Voerman
Michael Smith Wood
Morton Road
Morton
Jason Everett Emerson
Elizabeth Ave
Ken Fillingame
Craven County Sheriff’s Office
Fillingame
Emerson
Wood
Craven Regional Medical Center
Pamlico County Eyes Special Meeting on Animal Control
Pamlico County commissioners plan a tentative 5 p.m. Thursday special meeting in the courthouse commissioners room to discuss reinstating animal control services cut from the 1995 budget. County Manager Bill Rice said quorum concerns kept the time tentative as rabies cases raise public health and liability worries.
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Pamlico County
Bayboro
Bill Rice
Board of Commissioners
North Carolina
Interim replacement moves into job vacated by Hogarth
Bob Jamieson, regional manager for NC DEHNR, will serve as interim director of Marine Fisheries, splitting four days a week in Morehead City while a permanent successor is sought. Hogarth remains briefly involved, guiding ongoing issues with the Marine Fisheries Commission ahead of the late August meeting.
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Hogarth
N.C. Marine Fisheries
Bill Hogarth
Bob Jamieson
Wilmington
Marine Fisheries Office
Morehead City
Jamieson
Marine Fisheries Commission
New Bern Grants 10 Percent Discount On Electric Bills
New Bern aldermen approved a 10 percent discount for residential electric bills starting August 1, funded by a rate stabilization program tied to a residential load management system. The city aims to cut peak demand with switches controlling heat pumps and water heaters, saving households up to 88 dollars yearly and reducing bills in extreme months.
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New Bern
Board of Aldermen
New Ber
Bill Hartman
Ralph Puckett
Electric Utilities
Cials
Mysteries of Carolina Bays Spur Competing Theories
Readers recall an offshore Carolina bays enigma spanning 500000 holes from Florida to New Jersey. Scientists debate meteor or wind driven formation with water circulation as a plausible alternative, noting overlapping rings and ancient shoreline shifts while witnesses recall a dramatic oval bay photographed near Cove City.
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Jupiter
Carolina Bays
Atlantic
Florida
New Jersey
North
South Carolina
Lake Phelps
Pettigrew State Park
C. H. “Shoot” Hall
New Bern
North Carolina
Cove City
Raleigh
Courtney Hackney
Unc-Wilmington
Marguerite Schumann
Transpark update bracing Kinston for global role and jobs
North Carolina officials tout the 300 million Global TransPark project as a catalyst for international tenants led by Air Cargo of Raleigh aiming to move in next July. The venture spans 13 counties around Kinston Regional Jetport with plans for highway links to I 95 within five to six years and promises up to 90 000 jobs over 30 to 40 years as infrastructure and private funding expand. поли
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Kinston
North Carolina Global
India
Europe
Nancy Stallings
Transpark
Private Co
Air Cargo
Raleigh
Peck
Stallings
North Carolina
James Sughrue
Morehead City
Felix Harvey
Foundation
Harvey
Jim Martin
Sughrue
Coastal Carolina
Craven, Jones and Pamlico
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Meeting On Animal Control
N.C
Department of Environment, Health and Natural Resources
Hackney
Duke University
Orrin Pilkey
Hall
W. F. Prouty
University of North Carolina
Prouty
Joe Carter
Carter
C.H. Hall
Martin
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