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Louisburg High School senior Smiley Mueller (left) earned second place in the 152-pound weight class during last week’s prestigious Mark Adams Classic Wrestling Tournament at Cary High School in Wake County.
LOUISBURG -- Garnering a Region X Championship will be the chief goal for the Louisburg College Lady Hurricanes during the 2011 fast-pitch softball season, which will begin Feb. 19 with a home doubleheader against Patrick Henry Community College at Sheilah R. Cotten Field on the LC campus.
LC will be guided by third-year head coach Monica Gordy.
Leesville Road’s Lindsay Jones tries to hang on to the ball while Franklinton’s Tamara Williams defends during the first round of the South Granville Holiday Tournament at Butner-Stem Middle School.
Louisburg’s Jamal Lucas (with ball) scoops up a loose ball during the Warriors’ narrow setback against host South Johnston in Wednesday’s first-round pairing at the North-South Tournament.
Captain Robert Morgan, the pilot of the first B-17 Flying Fortress to complete 25 missions in the European theatre, had been dispatched back to the States with his bomber “Memphis Belle.” Morgan was from Asheville, about 10 miles away, and decided to fly his plane up the Swannanoa Valley and buzz the furniture plant that his father owned. As he flew, he was very low (for maximum effect), and I was suddenly startled by a tremendous noise and looked up just in time to see the largest airplane I had ever seen about 200 feet overhead.
By: CAREY JOHNSON, Times Staff Writer
A man accused of starting a riotous situation that resulted in a deputy’s injuries is slated to appear in court this coming year.
Joe Williams is slated to appear in Franklin County Superior Court on Jan. 10, facing two counts of felony assault on an officer, and misdemeanor charges of disorderly conduct and failure to disperse following a Feb. 27 arrest at the Citgo gas station on N. Bickett Boulevard.
By: CAREY JOHNSON, Times Staff Writer
While the worst of the cold appears behind us, emergency staff remind residents to be careful heating their homes.
A Nash County man died in a Spring Hope fire on Christmas day. According to the Nash County Sheriff’s Office, 45-year-old Earl J. Lucas was found dead inside the home after the fire was extinguished.
By: CAREY JOHNSON, Times Staff Writer
About a foot of snow fell in Franklin County, cutting off power to more than 6,000 residents and caused dozens of wrecks.
The snow storm, though, did not cause any fatalities.
Snow began to fall on Christmas afternoon and precipitation continued through Sunday.
By 4 p.m., 6,093 of Progress Energy’s 18,849 customers were without power.
By: CAREY JOHNSON, Times Staff Writer
The state’s unemployment rate fattened up a bit for November.
And the state led the country in job losses, putting the unemployment rate at 9.7 percent.
County figures are scheduled to be released this coming Tuesday, and local Employment Security Commission officials are expecting more of the same for Franklin County — a steady number of folks looking for jobs and more job opportunities.
By: CAREY JOHNSON, Times Staff Writer
Law enforcement officers will be out on heavy patrol this coming Friday and Saturday, making sure motorists are able to ring in the New Year and not sound the death knell.
According to the Governor’s Highway Safety Program, 394 people were killed last year as a result of impaired driving.
The program is in the tail end of its Booze It & Lose it program, which began on Dec. 3 and runs through Jan. 2.
Bunn resident Carlos Alston
FRANKLINTON —Lance W. Rehberg, 45, resident of Franklinton and longtime Mansfield area resident, died suddenly Tuesday, Dec. 21, 2010 at the home of his brother in Mansfield, following an apparent heart attack.
FRANKLINTON - Dolly Ann Davis, 60, died Sunday, Dec. 19, 2010 at her home in Durham. Funeral services were held Friday, Dec. 24, at Kinches Chapel Christian Church, Franklinton, with the Rev. Willie R. Nixon III officiating. Interment was in the church cemetery.
ZEBULON - Joanna Cornelia Solomon Banister, 75, died Thursday, Dec. 23, 2010. Funeral services were held Tuesday, Dec. 28, at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, Zebulon Ward. Burial will be at 12 p.m. today (Wednesday, Dec. 29) at Peninsula Memorial Park, Newport News, Va.
ZEBULON - Rickey Ray “Rick” Long, 62, died Thursday, Dec. 23, 2010 at his home. A memorial service was held Tuesday, Dec. 28, at Corinth Baptist Church, Zebulon. Inurment took place in the church cemetery.
ZEBULON - “Larry” Eugene Rogers, 60, died Wednesday, Dec. 22, 2010. Funeral services were held Tuesday, Dec. 28, at William Toney’s Funeral Home, Zebulon. Burial was at the Pleasant Grove Church Annex in Wendell.
FRANKLINTON —Dock Holden Harris, 79, died Wednesday, Dec. 22, 2010. Funeral services will be held at 1 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 30, at First Baptist Church in Franklinton. Burial will follow in Evergreen Cemetery.
YOUNGSVILLE - Louise Powell Freeman, 90, died Saturday, Dec. 25, 2010. Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. today (Wednesday, Dec. 29) at Youngsville Baptist Church. Burial will follow in the church cemetery.
ROCKY MOUNT - The Rev. Winfred W. Porter, 78, died Thursday, Dec. 23, 2010. Funeral services will be held at 1 p.m. today (Wednesday, Dec. 29) at Lakeside Baptist Church, 1501 Sunset Avenue, Rocky Mount, with Dr. Jody Wright, the Rev. Elizabeth Edwards and the Rev. Joy Heaton officiating. Entombment will follow at Rocky Mount Memorial Park.
LOUISBURG - Reginald C. Yarborough, 57, died Sunday, Dec. 26, 2010, at Duke Medical Center in Durham. Funeral services will be held Friday, Dec. 31, at Alston-Anderson Funeral Home Chapel, 904 S. Main St., Louisburg. Burial will be at Quality Cremations, Durham.
LOUISBURG - James Smith, 71, died Saturday, Dec. 25, 2010. Arrangements by William Toney’s Funeral Home, Zebulon.
LOUISBURG - James Thomas 82, died Thursday, Dec. 23, 2010. Arrangements by William Toney’s Funeral Home, Spring Hope.
LOUISBURG - Annie Freeman Bowers, 78, died Saturday, Dec. 25, 2010 at her home. Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 30, at Hall-Wynne Funeral Service, Franklinton Chapel, 504 E. Mason St. in Franklinton. Her grandson, the Rev. Samuel Eugene DeWitt, will officiate. Burial will be private in Fairview Cemetery.
YOUNGSVILLE - Funeral services for Johnnie E. Mitchell Sr., 72, who died Saturday, Dec. 25, 2010, will be held at 1 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 30, at Shady Grove Baptist Church, with the Rev. John A. Hopkins officiating. Burial will follow in the church cemetery.
FRANKLINTON - Funeral services for Gearline Noble, 77, who died Sunday, Dec. 26, 2010, will be held at 2 p.m. Friday, Dec. 31, at Shady Grove Baptist Church, with the Rev. Thomas Richardson officiating. Burial will follow in the church cemetery.
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