Author: Kenneth Fine

Kenneth Fine is an award-winning journalist who resides in Eastern North Carolina. His early work covering the military saw him travel to New York on the tenth anniversary of 9/11 and Afghanistan in 2009 to cover the Global War on Terror. More recently, he co-authored an investigative series that earned national acclaim and was republished in The Guardian and Saveur Magazine. Fine has received dozens of honors from the North Carolina Press Association since 2005, but his most prestigious awards include the 2018 Phil D. Reed Environmental Writing Award, a 2018 Society of Environmental Journalists award, a 2018 Society for Professional Journalists Green Eyeshade Award, and a 2018 Society for Features Journalism award. You can reach him at kfine@newoldnorth.com

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 case...

September 29, 2023 No Responses

Future Falcons fly

The Charles B. Aycock football team won Friday evening, but for many of those in attendance, the game was secondary to the recognition of the middle school “future Falcons” who were in attendance for what has become one of the...

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...

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...

September 17, 2023 No Responses

Scouts’ honor

Bill Moon couldn’t tell you how many evenings he has spent in these woods — the sprawling stomping grounds for countless members of the Boy Scouts of America Tuscarora Council. But when he looks down at the campfire and smiles...

September 17, 2023 No Responses

Hope from the ashes

Teresa Rose is sitting under an umbrella in her front yard when Mark Mason approaches. His job — running electricity from the Roses’ backyard workshop to their swimming pool — was complete. “Ok,” he said. “Now you can go swimming,...

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...

September 7, 2023 No Responses

Behind the badge

RALEIGH — A law enforcement officer watches as, upon his request, a drug trafficker threatens the lawman’s 17-year-old daughter’s boyfriend. The same officer sells guns he seized from drug raids — firearms he never logged as evidence — on gunbro...

September 5, 2023 No Responses

Gators smother Saints

The Southern Wayne High School varsity boys soccer team showed up in Seven Springs as the favorite, but that didn’t stop Spring Creek from putting on a defensive clinic against the Saints to secure a 1-0 victory. The following photographs...

September 2, 2023 No Responses

Through his lens of hope

Deontay Hooker pulls back a Velcro strap and looks down at his wrist. He knows there are only 30 seconds on the clock — that his team might need a divine intervention to overcome the three-point deficit its facing, that...

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