Craven drivers to receive SDIP insurance refunds
More than five thousand Craven County households will get small refunds from 1994 vehicle insurance payments. Statewide refunds total 1.9 million to 395,664 households as mis coded premium data caused higher rates. Checks averaging about 10 dollars begin mailing Thursday to SDIP point holders and new drivers with less than two years experience.
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Craven County
State Department of Insurance
N.C. Rate Bureau
Fourth annual Blessing of the Fleet on Intracoastal waterway
The fourth annual Blessing of the Fleet is set for Saturday on the Intracoastal Waterway in Hobucken from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Ministers will lead prayers for safe passage of commercial fishing vessels and crews. Activities include seafood dinners, kiddie rides, arts and crafts, educational displays, gospel music and a Little Miss Blessing pageant. Sponsored by the Pamlico County Chapter of the North Carolina Fisheries Association. For pageant info call 745-5076.
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Hobucken
Pamlico County
The
North Carolina Fisheries Association
Craven County to Hold Final Budget Deliberations Today
Craven County commissioners meet this afternoon to finalize the 1996 budget. A 5 p.m. vote is possible, but chair Chuck Tyson expects action at the June 19 meeting. The plan proposes a $49.4 million budget with a 1.5 cent tax cut, reducing revenue by about $498,000. Sheriff Monette and other department heads will defend requests. public comment is welcomed.
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Craven County
Chuck Tyson
Tyson
Jerry Monette
Four Southern Surprise defendants are sentenced
Four Southern Surprise drug ring defendants faced federal sentencing Monday in Elizabeth City and Greenville. Robert LeCraft received four years, Sylvia Burden four years probation. James Moye got 14 years four months for crack possession with intent to distribute. Earl Jones Jr. earned 2 1/2 years for relaying information to dealers. Bryant, the informant, had not yet been sentenced. The sweep began November 21 in the New Bern area, involving 40 defendants and 73,168 dollars seized from LeCraft and Burden at Sanders Lane.
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Southern Surprise
U.S. District Court
Craven County
Gerald Parker
Robert Leon LeCraft
Sylvia Little Burden
LeCraft
Burden
U.S
Douglas McCullough
Sanders Lane
Florida
Parker
Rhein Avenue
Elizabeth City
Moye
Greenville
Earl Frank Jones Jr
Berry Cordell Bryant
Bryant
Moye and Jones
New Bern
Havelock Budget Faces Gap After Tax Shift Rejected
Havelock's proposed 1994 95 budget faces a 104000 shortfall after state officials blocked routing 30 percent of the half cent sales tax from the sewer fund to the general fund to balance the budget. City managers cut 43964 in changes and trimmed departments as they seek to preserve a 5.76 million budget and the current property tax rate.
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Havelock
General Fund
North Carolina Department of Environment, Health and Natural Resources
Diane Scarborough
Joe Huffman
Huffman
Board of Commissioners
The only ones for the job
Havelock residents praise Marines for coordinating the rescue of Air Force Captain Scott O Grady in Bosnia. Marine units from Cherry Point, New River and Camp Lejeune led the operation with 130 Marines from the 24th MEU involved. Local residents stress the Marines deserve credit as the “911 force” for the daring mission.
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Havelock
America
Air Force
Scott O’grady
Bosnia
Marine Corps
Marine Attack Squadron 231
Cherry Point Marine Corps Air Station
Cherry Point
Camp Lejeune
2Nd Marine Aircraft Wing
White House
O’grady
Bill Whyland
Havelock Florist
Westbrook Plaza
Lorene Pfeiffer
Naval Aviation
O'Grady
Pfeiffer
Vietsaid
Mack's
Mack Sanders
Ed Gradus
U.S. Air Force
North Carolina escapees sentenced to death in Florida
Richard Eugene Hamilton and Anthony Floyd Wainright, both from North Carolina, were sentenced to death by electric chair in Green Cove Springs after being convicted of the 1994 murder of Carmen Gayheart. They escaped from Carteret Correctional Center, later were captured in Mississippi, and also faced charges of armed sexual battery and robbery. The juries recommended death by varied margins.
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Carteret Correctional Center
Newport
N.C
Ms. Gayheart
Jasper
Hamilton
Wainwright
Mississippi
Douglas
North Carolina
Gayheart
Wetland rule changes may aid TransPark project
North Carolina officials say proposed federal Clean Water Act changes could reduce the number of wetlands requiring protection and mitigation, potentially easing use of about 1,731 acres for the Global TransPark manufacturing and air transport complex. Authority members stress compliance with current laws while opponents warn of wetland impact.
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Kinston
Transpark Authority Board
Henson Barnes
Goldsboro
Authority
Rick Dove
Neuse River
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Harold Blizzard
Commissioners Conference Room
James Andre Moye
Trent Court
By Michael Genovese
Sun Journal
Scarborough
Ing
Angela Harris
Grabus
Frank Parrish Jr
Martin Brendt
24Th Meu
Michael’s Frame and Art
Linda Hughes
Corps
Transpark
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