Johnston Health will close one of its eateries, saying its new Smithfield cafeteria has drawn away too much business.
Updated: Mar. 2, 2010 8:30 AM | Full story
Poets, dancers, speakers and preachers came together last Thursday to celebrate Black History Month. About 50 people came to the library to watch acts that touched on everything from the Biblical past to modern day.
Updated: Mar. 3, 2010 8:12 AM | Full story
The town's Museum of Local History is getting ready to reopen in a bigger space, but it's missing one of the town's most historic items: a hundred-year-old, horse-drawn fire wagon.
Updated: Mar. 2, 2010 8:36 AM | Full story
Johnston County schools will hold kindergarten registration starting March 25. To enroll, a child must be 5 years old on or before Aug. 31.
Updated: Mar. 2, 2010 8:25 AM | Full story
In Johnston County these days, the first people on the scene of a medical emergency could well be firefighters.
Updated: Mar. 2, 2010 8:31 AM | Full story
With the click of a mouse, Meadow School science teacher Donna Price got money from Progress Energy to help her students build solar ovens.
Updated: Mar. 2, 2010 8:31 AM | Full story
The odds were one in a million. Scratch that -- one in 1.75 million.
Updated: Mar. 2, 2010 8:36 AM | Full story
In recent months, police bullets and arrows have taken down 31 of the town's four-legged scofflaws, wanted for crimes including trespassing, blocking traffic and destroying gardens.
Updated: Mar. 2, 2010 8:36 AM | Full story
Hundreds of people tossed back beers and swapped stories last week as they paid their respects to master karate instructor Johnny Holbrook.
Updated: Mar. 2, 2010 8:31 AM | Full story
Incumbent District Attorney Susan Doyle will face a challenger in the Republican primary this year, and a Democratic challenger is waiting in the wings.
Updated: Mar. 2, 2010 8:36 AM | Full story
While most girls struggle with what to wear to the prom, some have an even bigger problem: how to afford a dress.
Updated: Mar. 2, 2010 8:26 AM | Full story
The Johnston Soil and Water Conservation District has named its Conservation Farm Family of the Year - Lee Family Farms near Four Oaks.
Updated: Mar. 2, 2010 8:31 AM | Full story
U.S. Foodservice is set to expand after buying nearly 38 acres just across the Johnston County line from its existing distribution center.
Updated: Mar. 2, 2010 8:25 AM | Full story
Johnston County's new economic-development chief hopes to bolster the area with new industries, including aerospace and plastics.
Updated: Feb. 24, 2010 10:05 AM | Full story
A plan to foster the county's farmland is nearing completion, and its authors hope it will set a path to preserve one of Johnston's founding industries as subdivisions and shopping centers encroach.
Updated: Feb. 22, 2010 4:30 PM | Full story
Don Johnson tells a story about his father.
Updated: Feb. 22, 2010 4:20 PM | Full story
Jody McLeod isn't naïve.
Updated: Feb. 24, 2010 10:05 AM | Full story
Until recently, needy folks were out of luck if they needed a food pantry on a Tuesday.
Updated: Feb. 22, 2010 4:25 PM | Full story
When Chris Gilbert moved to Smithfield, her friends had just one piece of advice.
Updated: Feb. 24, 2010 10:10 AM | Full story
Lindsey Roberts figured that staging a beauty pageant would be hard work. But she didn't think that recruiting the contestants might be the hardest job of all.
Updated: Feb. 22, 2010 4:30 PM | Full story
The town's proposed curfew for teens is similar to those in other Johnston towns, but it's already causing controversy.
Updated: Feb. 24, 2010 10:10 AM | Full story
Mike and Julie Collins say the phone rings off the hook at their home in the Cleveland community.
Updated: Feb. 22, 2010 4:45 PM | Full story
A retired state trooper who was demoted a decade ago for having an affair with another trooper's wife said his transgression wouldn't affect his ability to serve as sheriff in Johnston County.
Updated: Feb. 24, 2010 10:05 AM | Full story
For decades, Sherry Altman's family spoke little of Aunt Irene. They had put away the newspaper clippings, hushed the old stories and ignored the legend of Irene McCann, the hard-edged gangster in high heels.
Updated: Feb. 24, 2010 10:05 AM | Full story
Cameron Skidgel's home has been burglarized time and time again for months. But Valentine's Day was different-- this time, the 36-year-old said, they came as he slept in his medical bed, then beat him as they ransacked his house.
Updated: Feb. 22, 2010 4:40 PM | Full story
Mount Olive College and Johnston Community College have signed an agreement that will enhance and expand options for community college students.
Updated: Feb. 22, 2010 4:50 PM | Full story
Northeast Foods, which supplies buns to McDonald's, plans to create 84 jobs and invest $25.4 million to build a bakery in Clayton.
Updated: Feb. 22, 2010 4:30 PM | Full story
Former Johnston County prosecutor Cindy Jaeger will spend at least three years in prison after pleading guilty on Monday to her role in a scheme to fix drunken-driving tickets.
Updated: Feb. 22, 2010 4:40 PM | Full story
Leslie Hubbard wants people to think about what they're eating.
Updated: Feb. 22, 2010 4:25 PM | Full story
Selma Police
Updated: Feb. 15, 2010 2:27 PM | Full story
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