From staff reports | May 8, 2025
A Creedmoor man was shot and killed by a State Highway Patrol trooper Thursday after fleeing a traffic stop and displaying a "dark object" when ordered to display his hands, according to the North Carolina State Highway Patrol. Philip Aiken Brown, 53, of Creedmoor, crashed his vehicle after fleeing from...
From staff reports | May 8, 2025
Recycling event Granville County will hold a household hazardous waste recycling event from 8 a.m. to 12 p.m. May 17 at the Expo Center at 4185 Highway 15. Youth police camp Creedmoor Police Department will host a youth police camp for fifth to eighth grade students. The camp hours are...
From staff reports | May 8, 2025
Butner Public Safety April 26, PSO J. A. Mennella arrested Ayman Abdel-Fattah Altamimi, 46, of Creedmoor, for an outstanding warrant for two counts of violation of a domestic violence protection order. Altamimi was issued no bond by Magistrate C. F. Knott and was placed in the Granville County Detention Center. ...
By Reggie Ponder
editor@wakeweekly.com | 252-202-8366 | May 7, 2025
The superintendent of the Granville County Public Schools and a member of the school board this week defended the staff reassignment process amid continuing public backlash over the removal of South Granville High School’s Teacher of the Year from his teaching position at the school. South Granville varsity boys basketball...
From staff reports | May 7, 2025
Rasheed Aquane Jones, 37, of Oxford, was booked by the Granville County Sheriff’s Office May 6 on three felony counts of high-risk sex offense online and felony failure to register as a sex offender. Jones was placed under a $95,000 bond and remanded to Granville County Detention Center. According to...
By Amanda Dixon
amanda@butnercreedmoornews.com | May 8, 2025
After honoring the South Granville softball senior players the Vikings got down to business with a 28-0 win over Southern School of Energy and Sustainability April 29. The seniors scored...
By Amanda Dixon
amanda@butnercreedmoornews.com | May 8, 2025
South Granville stepped into consideration for the 2A playoffs with a 6-2 win over the Louisburg Warriors. With both teams on the bubble for the playoffs before the match, the...
By Amanda Dixon
amanda@butnercreedmoornews.com | May 8, 2025
The North Carolina High School Athletic Association has made several changes including, how teams will be seeded for playoff berths, its mercy rule and more at its two-day spring meeting...
May 8, 2025
Eighty years ago today, Nazi Germany surrendered and the guns of Europe fell silent. Crowds swarmed Times Square and Piccadilly Circus. The free world exhaled. May 8, 1945 — Victory...
May 8, 2025
Every summer brings the familiar joys of sunny weather, family barbecues and beach vacations. But for Americans on the Gulf or Atlantic coasts, the daily weather forecast always comes with...
May 8, 2025
On Monday, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security announced that immigrants in the United States can use a smartphone app to claim free plane tickets and $1,000 payments if they’re...
April 2, 2025
Support Jake Wohlfeil at school board meeting Dear Editor: I can hardly believe I am having to write something like this. I used to say ‘nothing surprises me anymore’. But...
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