Community rallies as volunteers search for missing Mariah Woods
FBI and Onslow County officials lead a large volunteer effort for missing 3 year old Mariah Kay Woods. About 730 volunteers comb woods along Dawson Cabin Road from High Hill Road to U.S. 17 while investigators review items of interest and maintain search areas near Jacksonville North Carolina.
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FBI
Stanley Meador
Jacksonville Police Department
Stillwood Road
Mariah Kay Woods
Kristy Woods
Richard Alt
National Center For Missing and Exploited Children
High Hill Road
U.S. 17
Dawson Cabin Road
Ali
Anna Fyfe
Onslow County Sheriff's Office
Beckelhimer
Mariah
Meador
Jacksonville
Sunny Slope Peach Plant Fire Remembers Gaffney Heritage
In Gaffney the Sunny Slope Farms peach packing plant known as the Peach Shed burned Friday after 6 a.m. Fire Chief Jamie Caggiano said the Caggiano family built a peach empire from 1943, peaking at 25 million pounds of peaches and 1.2 million pounds of apples annually. Locals recall summers spent there, concerts at Peach Festival, and the site as a historic youth hub now lost to flames.
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Nita Poole
Sunny Slope
Gaffney
Peach
Jamie Caggiano
Caggiano
Sunny Slope Farms
Herald-Journal
Festival Board of Governors
Henry Jolly
Harvey Peeler
Peeler
Bethel Baptist Church
Poole
Daniel
Sex offender charged with child reported incident
Alawson Gaston Gazette reports 74 year old Lymon Hughes, listed in the North Carolina Sex Offender Registry, was arrested in Gaston County on two counts of first degree sex offense and a child. Detectives in Cleveland County added charges for alleged sex acts with a 10 year old and a second child. Offenses said to have occurred from 2016 to Sept 14, 2017. bond rose to 1 million dollars.
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Lymon Lester Hughes
South
North Carolina
Lancaster County
Hughes
Gaston County
Cleveland County
Inmate Accused of Defacing Quran with Sex Act
Johnathan Ross Compton, 35, jailed in Gaston County Jail since Nov 4, faces ethnic intimidation charges after deputies say he ejaculated into a damaged Quran and used a racial slur toward Abdulkhafid Abdul. Abdulkhafid was booked for domestic violence protection order violations and simple assault on Nov 2, with criminal contempt the next day. Compton’s bond increased to 15,000 total. he remains jailed.
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Shelby
Gaston County
Johnathan Ross Compton
Abdul Abdulkhafid
Compton
Ross
Abdulkhafid
Rare East Coast quake trembles Dover area in brief
A 4.1 magnitude earthquake shook the Mid-Atlantic on Thursday evening, prompting people to flee offices and homes briefly. The USGS placed the epicenter about 6 miles east-northeast of Dover Delaware in the Bombay Hook National Wildlife Refuge at a depth near 5 miles.
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Mid-Atlantic
U.S. Geological Survey
Dover
Delaware
Bombay Hook National Wildlife Refuge
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