Category: News

Teachers, others question WCPS spending priorities
October 29, 2023 No Responses

Teachers, others question WCPS spending priorities

One wants to purchase a storage tray for her classroom. Another needs money to fill her color printer with ink. A kindergarten teacher is trying to buy carpets to keep her students “off the hard floors.” Others asked for items...
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Running on fumes
October 29, 2023 No Responses

Running on fumes

Editor’s Note: On Monday, Oct. 23, Editor Ken Fine and Photography Director Casey Mozingo rode along with two members of the Goldsboro Police Department. Portions of this story reflect what they heard and witnessed during the ride-along. It’s 3:02 p.m....
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The claim game
October 22, 2023 No Responses

The claim game

A police officer peers through a window when shouting is heard coming from behind the doors guarding the Goldsboro City Council from the public during a pre-board meeting closed session. It is June 3, 2019, and the elevated voice is...
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Raking in the green
October 15, 2023 No Responses

Raking in the green

Some Wayne County Public School campuses, like Spring Creek Elementary, still do not have functioning air-conditioning units in every classroom. Parents of students who attend others get robocalls or text messages regularly about broken down school buses — n...
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Judge: Cox too dangerous to release ahead of trial
October 8, 2023 No Responses

Judge: Cox too dangerous to release ahead of trial

WILMINGTON — A law enforcement officer tips off a known drug trafficker via text that he is being investigated by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives — information that compromises the agents’ staging location and forces them to...
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Cox’s refusal to testify led to 2016 trafficking case dismissal
October 1, 2023 No Responses

Cox’s refusal to testify led to 2016 trafficking case dismissal

According to documents obtained by New Old North, former Wayne County Sheriff’s Office Drug Unit chief Michael Cox shielded the longtime girlfriend of one of his purported confidential informants by refusing to testify against her in a 2016 drug trafficking...
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Fight or no flight
September 24, 2023 No Responses

Fight or no flight

To the average Wayne County resident, the sight of an F-15E Strike Eagle ripping through the clouds Aug. 18 likely seemed routine. As far as they knew, it was just another training sortie. They see it every day. They had...
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D.A.’s office threw out drug charge at Cox’s request
September 17, 2023 No Responses

D.A.’s office threw out drug charge at Cox’s request

As Assistant U.S. Attorney Dennis Duffy laid out chunks of the government’s case against former Wayne County Sheriff’s Office Drug Unit chief Michael Cox inside a sixth-floor courtroom at the Terry Sanford Federal Building Sept. 6, he made a series...
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School report cards are in — and they’re not good
September 17, 2023 No Responses

School report cards are in — and they’re not good

The numbers are in, and they speak — loudly — for themselves. Wayne County Public Schools has been designated a Low-Performing District, according to standards set by the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction. The district’s report card — rel...
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City cops, firefighters, told to settle for “Plan B”
September 10, 2023 No Responses

City cops, firefighters, told to settle for “Plan B”

They only put together a second plan to appease City Manager Tim Salmon. Both Goldsboro Police Chief Mike West and Fire Chief Ron Stempien admitted as much to members of the Goldsboro City Council several weeks ago. The truth, they...
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