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Dustin’s First Alert Forecast: Overcast with daily shower and storm chances across ENC
The National Weather Service has issued a Flood Watch for the following locations from 8 AM and continues through Midnight Monday: Beaufort, Craven, Dare, Greene, Hyde, Jones, Lenoir, Martin, Pamlico, Pitt, Tyrrell, and Washington counties. Several towns across Eastern North Carolina had a wet and loud start to the day,...
Working the forests through the trees: Early career as a ranger has been memorable
“Flame lengths over 50 feet were pushing our line. It looked like a wall of fire and sounded like a freight train coming through the middle of the woods.” That description, frightening to picture for most, was shared by County Ranger Michael Ward with the N.C. Forest Service in Washington County. Ward was recalling one of his most memorable incidents thus far in his career. Ward is serving in his...
Fatal shooting at Roper house party leaves one dead, three injured
A shooting that happened around 4 a.m. Sunday morning, July 7, in Washington County, left one person dead and three others with injuries, with one being critical. Officials tell us that they responded to 12256 Hwy. 32 North in Roper in reference to two shots being fired at a house party.
Multiple people injured in Washington County after house party shooting
ROPER, N.C. (WNCT) — Deputies with the Washington County Sheriff’s Department were called about a report of shots being fired at a house party on July 7. Once deputies arrived to the scene they saw multiple people suffering from gunshot wounds. Life-saving measures were attempted on Chowan County resident, Verrick Kadeem Parks, but were ultimately […]
Washington sheriff: Chowan man killed, 2 other county residents hurt in shooting in Roper
ROPER — One Chowan County man was killed and two other county residents injured in a shooting incident at a house party in Roper early Sunday, the Washington County Sheriff’s Office said. The Sheriff’s Office identified the deceased Chowan man on Facebook Monday as Verrick Kadeem Parks and said the two injured men were Chowan residents Daniel Hurdle and Tyreek Welch. According to the Facebook post, Washington deputies responded to...
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