Two Vanceboro Men Charged With Rape in Separate Incidents
In Vanceboro two men were arrested for second degree rape after separate early Sunday incidents. Charles Green, 34, and Terry Nobles, 31, are held on secured bonds of 25000 and 30000 respectively. The victims, a 23 year old cousin from Brooklyn and an adult friend, were assaulted in different apartments. neighbors alerted police.
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Vanceboro
Patrick O’ Callahan
Charles Douglas Green
Oaks Apartments
Terry Nobles
Mile Road
Green
Brooklyn
N.C
Nobles
O’callahan
Sun Journal
O'Callahan
House Fails To Endorse Senate Flag Allegiance Rewrite
State House and Senate clash over a pledge bill. The Senate favors optional display and pledge encouragement, citing constitutional concerns and unfunded mandates. A conference committee will craft a compromise as Rep. Nichols pushes for a mandatory pledge in schools.
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Senate
House
Clark Plexico
Hendersonville
John Nichols
R-Craven
Ken Miller
R-Alamance
Nichols
Sea Grant Limited Entry Meet Set at New Bern Sheraton
North Carolina Sea Grant hosts a limited entry conference at the Sheraton Grand in New Bern June 29-30. Registration is 45 dollars covering coffee breaks a social and an outdoor shrimp-a-roo. Topics include the history and use of limited entry license limits and coastal implications with panels from NC Marine Fisheries Commission Duke University Atlantic Coast Conservation Association and others led by Jim Murray contact.
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North Carolina Sea Grant
Sheraton Grand
New Bern
North Carolina
North Carolina Marine Fisheries Commission
Duke University
Atlantic Conservation Association
Craven County Votes Budget With Tax Cut And Fees
Craven County commissioners approve a 49.1 million dollar budget for fiscal 1996 lowering property tax by 1.5 cents to 58.5 cents per 100 valuation. The plan raises garbage and sewer fees and ends a two year subsidy, with trash sticker rising to 1.75 dollars in September and full year savings noted.
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Craven County
Craven
Ron Antry
Antry
County budget rounds to fair plan with tax cut and cuts
Craven County approves a 1.5 cent cut in property tax rate to 58.5 cents and 5.6 percent growth in tax base to 3.38 billion while funding a 3 percent cost of living raise. Three nonprofit groups lose one third of funding over three years, jail meal prep is contracted, and a satellite jail builds for 241,475 plus 200,000 for a water sewer office. Five sheriff positions funded including a full time DARE officer. School funding faces a cut from 12.6 million to 9.17 million amid calls for more education support.
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Swiss Bear
Craven Evaluation
Big Brothers
Big Sisters
Sheriff's
Craven Evaluation and Training
Big Sisters of
Lower Neuse
Rick Hemphill
Neuse River
Ae Ee Blizzard
Lee K. Allen
Gerald Parker
Parker
Elizabeth City
Water and Sewer Department
Craven County
Supreme Court rejects Basden appeal in NC murder case
The U S Supreme Court refused to hear Ernest W Basden s appeal in the 1992 killing of Billy White Sr of Kinston The ruling clears the way for an execution date to be set in Duplin County Superior Court Basden was hired for 300 by White s wife Sylvia through her nephew Linwood Taylor The case ties to a murder for hire scheme linked to White s widow and her later conviction in a separate 1973 death.
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Raleigh
U.S. Supreme Court
North Carolina
Ernest W. Basden
Billy White Sr
Kinston
Basden
Duplin County Superior Court
William H. Andrews
White
Sylvia
Linwood Taylor
Billy White
State Attorney General’s Office
Greg Rideout
Rideout
State Supreme Court
Mrs. White
Taylor
Jones tax rate up 2 cents and waste fees rise in 1995 96
Jones County approves an 84 cent per hundred valuation tax rate for 1995 96 up 2 cents. The county schools face a $200 000 shortfall as funding for salaries and transportation funds shrink. Garbage disposal costs rise sharply with landfill tipping from 40 55 to 45 per ton and bag prices up to 125 each. Water rates may rise about 3 monthly.
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Trenton
Larry Meadows
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Sheraton
Albert Toon
Board (of Education
Toon
Brad Sneeden
Charile Peek
West Craven Middle School
US Supreme Court
Ly C. White II
Correctional Institution For Women
Sermon-Boyd
Jones
Department of Soci
Additi
Hawkins
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