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The Wake Technical Community College Board of Trustees recently welcomed two new members.
Although she has a master's degree already, Virginia Curtis is back in school.
A Wake County prosecutor will soon begin sifting through evidence collected in a case in which more than $300,000 is missing from the independent Garner Fire Department.
At Johnston County's two new high schools, students have lunch breaks with a twist.
Wake Technical Community College has been selected to lead a statewide overhaul of community college programs that aim to improve training in emerging green technologies.
A hospital-owned day-care center will remain open - at least for the next year.
The Town of Clayton and the Clayton Downtown Development Association have been accredited as a 2010 National Main Street Program.
Deputies have arrested three persons and were looking for a fourth after the shootings of two convenience store clerks in back-to-back armed robberies in Johnston County.
Soon, hospital workers will check the credit histories of emergency-room patients in Smithfield and Clayton.
The waiting area of an emergency room might seem like a strange setting for an art exhibit. But recently, about a half-dozen visitors surrounded artist Mary Brown as she painted a canvas at Johnston Medical Center in Clayton.
Sherita McNeil's own words persuaded jurors to return a guilty verdict in a case that evoked gruesome images of a toddler's body, wrapped in garbage bags and bleach-soaked sheets, decomposing in a bedroom closet.
Construction of a one-mile stretch of greenway along the Neuse River will cost less than expected, so the project could get upgrades, including a parking lot.
Police charged two Garner men last week in connection with a series of home break-ins that began late last month, authorities reported.
Students began classes this week at two new Johnston high schools, a symbol of the residential growth that has transformed the western part of the county over the past two decades.
More students began classes at Wake Technical Community College this semester than any previous semester.
Need a new sofa? Soon, you might not be able to find one of those vendors who sets up temporary outdoor sales along the highway in Clayton.
At a workshop last week, folks were quick to suggest upgrades needed on Interstate 95. But it was hard to find anyone willing to pay tolls to fund those improvements.
In a split decision, the Town Council voted last week to not waive town rules for a home for recovering drug addicts and alcoholics.
A Relay for Life organizer and a resident who has pushed for downtown revitalization are this year's winners of the James R. Stevens Service to Garner award. Town leaders honored Jill Cottengin and Pam Cash at a ceremony on Saturday.
Regardless of whether they're white, black or Hispanic, all seven of Johnston County's death-row inmates are claiming racial bias played a role in their sentences, and they want them changed to life in prison.