A 17-year-old shot to death on Hugh Street Dec. 29. A lunchtime shootout inside Berkeley Mall. A corpse found on Sunburst Drive. And all of that after Goldsboro Police Chief Mike West said the incident that claimed that teenager’s life…
Legendary
A little boy comes home from school with tears in his eyes. He is “huskier than everybody else” at Tommy’s Road Elementary — making him an easy mark for those who take pride in teasing others. He is “picked on”…
His eyes on the prize
It’s six o’clock in the morning and the sky is starting to brighten, but the streets that separate the apartment buildings tucked inside the West Haven housing projects remain dark. The groups of young men who were running the block…
A home invaded. A life interrupted.
It’s the middle of the night and Christian Hernandez’s heart is racing. The 20-year-old had closed his eyes a few hours earlier, but his sleep was abruptly interrupted when he saw his sister in his dreams. There is a massive…
Searching for servants
They are the servant generation, the hundreds of Wayne County residents who populated the community’s service organizations — leading them, guiding them, and supporting them. But they are getting older — and tired. Their numbers have dwindled, and now a…
Housing is a fragile thing
We are all one misstep, one lost paycheck, one serious health diagnosis, one tragedy away. It could be anyone. And it is, all of us — from every background, every neighborhood. For many, it is hard to look at the…
Hitting home
There were already bullet holes in her bedroom window, but every time the police would intervene, Bailey’s abuser would find a way to pay his bond. He was no longer the beloved partner who fathered her children — the man…
Amid shortage, GPD can’t protect its own house
They are already working longer shifts and jumping, seemingly constantly, from call to call — unable to perform the preventative policing that stops crime before it happens. They are already “burned out” — and suffering from the hit to morale…
Belting it out
Wayne County Public Schools families packed the Goldsboro High School auditorium for three straight days as the district’s annual Choral Showcase took center stage. The following photographs were taken by Ken Fine:
The Year of the Gun
A 17-year-old Goldsboro High School student was gunned down Dec. 29, but all anyone seems to be talking about on social media is the “Cougar Pride” being felt by alumni, parents, and staff because the school’s girls’ and boys’ varsity…