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Celebrate Take A Child Outside Week By Visiting An Educational State Forest
September 24th – 30th is Take a Child Outside Week and the N.C. Forest Service is encouraging adults and children to get outside and visit one of the agency’s Educational State Forests. “Fall is a great time to get outside and enjoy the…
SUV Overturns On Highway 301
A SUV ran off Highway 301 and overturned in a ditch Friday morning. The single vehicle accident was reported around 8:30am near the intersection of Oak Grove Inn Road near Micro. The driver was reportedly reaching into the back seat to adjust a blanket…
Car Strikes Mobile Home
Two vehicles collided Friday morning in northern Johnston County sending one of the vehicles into the side of a mobile home. The accident was reported at the intersection of Covered Bridge Road and Thanksgiving Fire Department Road. After the impact, one of…
Honey Bun, Soft Drink Stolen During Business Break-In
Video surveillance cameras captured a burglar force his way into Mac’s General Merchandise near Benson early Thursday morning. At 2:22am, the suspect forces open a side door to the grocery store at 4432 Highway 242 South. Once inside the intruder cuts cords to a…
Fed Ex Truck Struck By SUV
A Fed Ex delivery driver sustained injuries following a two vehicle accident Thursday afternoon in West Smithfield. Smithfield Police said the crash occurred at 3:03pm on West Market Street at Wilson’s Mills Road. The Fed Ex truck was leaving the parking lot of Food…
Dollar General Store Robbed
For the third time within the past 12 months, a local Dollar General store was robbed. Thursday night, two men armed with handguns robbed the Dollar General at 10525 Cleveland Road near the I-40/NC42 interchange. Around 9:30pm, the gunman, who were wearing masks,…
DOT Could Relocate I-95 Between Smithfield And Selma
The NC Department of Transportation is considering a plan to move I-95 farther east between the Smithfield and Selma exits. But it would be as much as two decades from now. Last year, the NC Department of Transportation unveiled plans…
Town Of Selma Considering Purchasing Public Pool
Residents in Selma could be enjoying a public pool as early as next summer. The remaining four shareholders of a private pool on Griswold Street have approached the Town of Selma about taking over the facility behind Selma Elementary School.…
Duke Life Flight Crew Escorted Home
Emergency personnel from Greenville to Raleigh helped escort the bodies of three Duke Life Flight crew members from the Medical Examiner’s Office in Pitt County to their respective funeral homes on Wednesday. Life Flight pilot Jeff Burke, and flight nurses…
Juveniles With BB Guns Charged With Going Armed To The Terror Of The Public
Two students, ages 12 and 13, from Smithfield Middle School have been charged with going armed to the terror of the public after an incident last Friday morning in Smithfield. WTSB News has learned a 23 year-old man was in…
