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By: By Geoff Neville, Times Sportswriter
LOUISBURG -- Rocky Mount Prep encountered an enormous amount of pressure during a visit to Louisburg for a pair of non-conference basketball matchups Monday.
And all of that pressure came from the Louisburg defense -- in both varsity contest.
Utilizing a full-court press, the Warriors and Lady Warriors were able to score a convincing sweep of their foes from Nash County.
By: By CAREY JOHNSON, Times Staff Writer
Attorneys seated a jury earlier this week, and prosecutors were expected to be in the crux of their case against a Louisburg man charged with killing a Bunn teenager in 2005.
On Monday afternoon, prosecutors and defense attorney Boyd Sturges began selecting a jury that will determine the guilt or innocence of Antione Perry.
The now 22-year-old is on trial for the first-degree murder of Marc Philippeaux.
By: By KATHY HARRELSON, Managing Editor
It might be close to Christmas, but it certainly doesn’t feel like it when it comes to temperatures.
A warming trend that started Monday was expected to keep thermostats hitting just more than 80 degrees through today, with end-of-week predictions reaching toward 70 Thursday and 60 Friday.
By: By CAREY JOHNSON, Times Staff Writer
Ground breaking for a Wal-Mart supercenter originally planned for this fall has been pushed back to late spring 2008.
Developers say the project still has the green light, though.
“It’s going to happen,” said Dr. Phil Goodson, who assembled the land deal and took the project to GFD Development in Cary.
“It’s just been delayed by Wal-Mart.
Nyla Scarborough, a native of Durham, was crowned Miss Nu Epsilon Chapter 2008 on Saturday, Oct. 27, at the Miss Nu Epsilon Cotillion of Alpha Pi Chi Sorority Inc. conducted at Louisburg United Methodist Church.
Micah Dorsey and Silas Dorsey of Louisburg are new junior members of the American Angus Association®, reports John Crouch, executive vice president of the national organization.
The Cinderella Scholarship Pageant announces its upcoming preliminary on Jan. 2 at Louisburg College.
The Cinderella Scholarship Pageant is new to the North Wake County area. However, the system has been around since 1976. Heather Fergeson is a new director with the pageant.
Al Peoples, director of Environmental Health for the Franklin County Health Department, was recently honored by being named the North Carolina Environmental Health Supervisor of The Year by the North Carolina Environmental Health Supervisor’s Association.
The central library of the Franklin County Library at 906 N. Main St., Louisburg, will close its parking lot Dec. 12 for repair and maintenance.
YOUNGSVILLE - Peggy Louvenia “Martha” Merritt Harris, 71, died Sunday morning, Dec. 9, 2007 at Franklin Regional Medical Center. Funeral services were conducted Tuesday, Dec. 10, at South Main Street Baptist Chapel, Wake Forest. Burial followed in the Oak Grove Baptist Church cemetery.
YOUNGSVILLE - Johnnie Atmoore Clark, 70, died Sunday, Dec. 9, 2007 at Franklin Regional Medical Center. Graveside services were conducted Tuesday, Dec. 11, at Harris Chapel Baptist Church cemetery.
LOUISBURG - Funeral services for Elijah Jefferson Jr., 57, who died Thursday, Dec. 6, 2007, will be conducted at 1 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 13, at Gillfield Baptist Church, with the Rev. Thomas Richardson officiating. Burial will follow in the church cemetery.
KNIGHTDALE - Julia (also known as Julie and Judy) Capell Dixon died Friday, Dec. 7, 2007 at Rex Hospital. A funeral service was conducted Tuesday, Dec. 11, at L. Harold Poole Funeral Service Chapel, Knightdale, with the Rev. Alan Moody and the Rev. Jay Tilley officiating. Burial followed at her father’s side at Maple Springs Baptist Church, Louisburg.
RALEIGH - Gale Watkins White, 55, died Thursday, Dec. 6, 2007 at Rex Healthcare. Funeral services were conducted Sunday, Dec. 9, at Wake Cross Roads Baptist Church, Raleigh. Burial followed in the Watkins family cemetery.
HENDERSON - Felicia Marie Bumpers, 31, died Wednesday, Dec. 5, 2007 at her residence. Funeral services were conducted Sunday, Dec. 9, at Union Grove Missionary Baptist Church, with the Rev. Samuel Tunstall officiating. Interment followed in the church cemetery.
FRANKLINTON - Willie Mae Harris Hayes, 95, died Monday, Dec. 3, 2007 at Wake Medical Center in Raleigh. Funeral services were conducted Saturday, Dec. 8, at Union Grove Baptist Church in Youngsville, with the Rev. Samuel T. Tunstall officiating. Interment followed in Evergreen Cemetery in Franklinton.
LOUISBURG - Louise Egerton Passmore, 101, died Monday afternoon, Dec. 10, 2007. Graveside services will be conducted at 2 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 13, at Oakwood Cemetery, with the Rev. Earl Dulaney officiating.
WAKE FOREST - Gladys Hicks Perry White, 93, died Monday morning, Dec. 10, 2007 at Rex Health Care. Funeral services will be conducted at 11 a.m. today (Wednesday, Dec. 12) at Beulah Christian Baptist Church. Burial will follow in the church cemetery.
APEX - Yvette A. Fitzgerald, 85, died Monday, Dec. 10, 2007. A Mass of Christian Burial will be conducted at 11 a.m. Saturday, Dec. 15, at St. Andrews Catholic Church, 3008 Old Raleigh Rd., Apex. She was born in Maseau, Canada, to Ernest and Alina Allie.
CASTALIA - Funeral services for Albert “Snag” Coley, 82, who died Sunday, Dec. 9, 2007, will be conducted at 11 a.m. Saturday, Dec. 15, at Pleasant Grove Baptist Church, with Linda Tayborn officiating. Burial will follow in the church cemetery.
RALEIGH - Robin Harris Whitten, 45, formerly of Franklin County, died Friday, Nov. 30, 2007. Funeral services were conducted Wednesday, Dec. 5, in the Bryan-Lee Funeral Home chapel, Wake Forest Road, Raleigh.
LOUISBURG - Wesley “Hossfly” Allen died Sunday, Dec. 9, 2007. Arrangements by Bright Funeral Home and Cremation Center, Wake Forest.
WENDELL - Minnie Marie Jones Leonard, 82, of Wendell, died peacefully Monday evening in Rex Hospital. She was preceded in death by her husband, William Atkin Jones; brothers, W. H. Smith and Thomas Smith; and her sisters, Edna Mason and Mildred Beckham. She attended Louisburg College and was a member of Cedar Rock First Baptist Church. Funeral services will be held Friday at 10:00 a.m. from the chapel of Lancaster Funeral and Cremation Services. Burial will follow in Oakwood Cemetery.
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