Franklin County sheriff’s deputies arrested a Youngsville-area man accused of assaulting a woman over a period of hours.
Michael Severn’s mother, though, told authorities the claims were baseless.
Andrea Horton reported on Dec. 18 that she and her boyfriend, Severn, had gone out the evening before and when they returned to their Beechwood Drive home, Severn became violent.
By:
Bill Lord, Franklin County Cooperative Extension Agent
Many people have seen flies of various types near creeks and rivers. If you like fishing, you may recognize some of these names: mayflies, stoneflies, caddisflies, dragonflies and dobsonflies.
Did you know that these critters are needed for the ecosystem? Most of these flies begin their life cycles in the stream and are food for fish.
Franklin Regional Medical Center of Louisburg is one of the “healthiest employers in the Triangle area,” according to The Triangle Business Journal.
The inaugural Healthiest Employer Award was presented to Franklin Regional, and 19 other Triangle businesses, in honor of its commitment to making health a top priority.
LOUISBURG - Funeral services for Gracie Crudup Goode, 70, who died Sunday, Dec. 18, 2011, will be held at 2 p.m. Friday, Dec. 23, at Richardson Funeral Home in Louisburg.
LOUISBURG - Funeral services for Gregory Lee Hicks, 29, who died Wednesday, Dec. 14, 2011, will be held at 11 a.m. Friday, Dec. 23, at Mt. Hebron Holiness Church. Burial will follow in the Hicks family cemetery.
RALEIGH - Linda Salmon Barbour, 76, died Saturday, Dec. 17, 2011. A memorial service will be held at Brown-Wynne Funeral Home, 300 St. Mary’s Street, Raleigh, on Wednesday, Dec. 21, at 6 p.m. The family will receive friends following the memorial service at the funeral home.
RALEIGH - Samir “Sam” Fawry Rizk, 71, died suddenly on Tuesday, Dec. 6, 2011 while on vacation in the Grand Cayman Islands. Funeral service was held Sunday, Dec. 18, at Middlesex Church of God Worship Center in Middlesex. Graveside services with Hebrew prayers followed at the Murray family cemetery in Nash County.
By:
Martha Mobley, Franklin County Cooperative Extension Agent
Cattle Herds
Cattle are comfortable in temperatures around freezing. As temperatures fall below freezing and snow or other moisture occurs, cattle will need extra care to keep warm and functioning. Most cattle can make do with windbreaks. A wooded area is often adequate for this purpose.
By:
GEOFF NEVILLE, Times Sportswriter
BETHLEHEM -- Head out of Louisburg on SR 561 and travel into Centerville before taking a left at the big intersection.
Go across a bridge into Warren County and undertake a few turns before encountering a small sign for a modest subdivision.
By:
GEOFF NEVILLE, Times Sportswriter
BUNN -- With time short before Christmas, Bunn took advantage of every moment for a pre-holiday flurry of wrestling action.
Thursday night, BHS, under first-year head coach Randy Kagarise, hit the road for Henderson to take on the Northern Vance Vikings.
FRANKLIN COUNTY -- Roanoke Rapids currently holds the league through the fall season in the North Carolina High School Athletic Association’s Wells Fargo Conference Cup Standings for the Class 2-A Northern Carolina Conference.
Thanks to league crowns in girls tennis, football (share) and boys soccer (share), the Yellow Jackets closed the fall with 40 total points.
By:
GEOFF NEVILLE, Times Sportswriter
WARRENTON -- A fourth-quarter flurry helped Bunn remain undefeated while winning its initial Northern Carolina Conference boys basketball matchup for the 2011-12 campaign.
Taking on a much-improved Warren County squad, the Wildcats outscored the Eagles by seven points in the final stanza en route to earning a 63-52 decision at the WCHS Gymnasium.
FRANKLIN REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER. Yulonda Crudup (center) from Franklin Regional Medical Center accepted a plaque on behalf of FRMC for its contributions to the Bunn High School football program. The ceremony took place at halftime of a basketball game. Also pictured are (l to r) BHS football coach Chris Miller and BHS Assistant Principal Daniel Wright.
Bunn High School mat veteran Nathan Carnley prepares to wrap up a conquest as part of the Wildcats’ team decision at Northern Vance last Thursday night.
ANOTHER BIG BUCK. Lori Murray of the Justice Community harvested this impressive 8-point buck during a recent hunting expedition in Franklin County with her husband, Chuck. Lori now has a 4-for-4 shooting record.
Christian Buffaloe trains under his father, Kenny, in his quest to be one of the world’s best at the art of Kyokushin Karate. The Buffaloes live in Warren County.
Dr. E Carroll Joyner and the Joyner family, through United Way of Franklin County and Butterball, LLC Garner, donated 272 Butterball turkeys on Thursday to Care and Share and the Youngsville Area Business Association’s Christmas Program as well as to Perry’s Community Ministries in Franklinton. In its third year, the turkey giving is part of the UWFC Fall Food Drive.
Vance-Granville Community College has selected 13 outstanding students to serve as ambassadors during the 2011-2012 school year. Ambassadors represent the college at special campus and community functions, among other duties.
By:
CAREY JOHNSON, Times Staff Writer
A troubled relationship ended in an apparent murder-suicide.
Louisburg police responded to 119-A Franklin Court Apartments the morning of Dec. 14 to find 24-year-old Rosemarie Guzman dead from a gunshot wound to the head and torso.
They also found 29-year-old Gregory Lee Hicks dead from a single gunshot wound to the head.
Louisburg police took a 17-year-old Louisburg High School senior into custody Friday morning after an unloaded pistol was found in his car’s glove compartment.
Clayton Williams faces serious federal felony charges after LHS Student Resource Officer Joe Sherrill found an old .22-caliber revolver after another student alerted a teacher to the possibility that a gun was in the vehicle.
By:
CAREY JOHNSON, Times Staff Writer
FRANKLINTON — Police arrested a local man Tuesday evening, alleging he was one of three men who robbed a pizza delivery man at gunpoint.
Officers arrested Mariek Dozier, 16, on Dec. 13, charging him with robbery with a dangerous weapon.
Dozier’s arrest comes almost a month after a Domino’s employee told authorities that he was robbed at gunpoint while delivering pizzas at Academy Village the evening of Nov. 22.
Country music star Jason Michael Carroll, right, was the featured guest at a pizza party given to Dottie Averette’s Franklinton High School class — which raised the most money during a two-month fund-raiser. All told, students raised $5,025 and on Thursday, Principal Charles Fuller presented the check to Donna Wade, executive director of Miracle League of Franklin County.
By:
GARY CUNARD, Times Publisher
At first glance, Franklin County’s unemployment statistics look good, totaling about 9.7 percent or seven-tenths of a percentage point below the statewide average for North Carolina.
That still puts the county seven-tenths of a point higher than the 9 percent recorded nationally.
But, according to another view of the statistics, North Carolina and Franklin County have a long, long way to recovery, just to get back to the employment picture we enjoyed in 2007.
By:
CAREY JOHNSON, Times Staff Writer
The United Way’s food drive produced its largest amount of donated turkeys this week.
It’s come at a time when the need is the greatest.
According to the most recent Census data, nearly one in two people have fallen into poverty and low income.
Franklin County is not immune from the reach of despair, either.
A Louisburg man was found guilty this week of assault and torture in an attempted murder case in New Jersey.
Franklin County authorities arrested Anthony Massenburg, 40, in February on an Essex County New Jersey bench warrant on charges of attempted first-degree murder.
