COMMUNITY NEWS

LOUISBURG -- A Franklin County man is slated to appear in court next month on a shooting charge.
Authorities allege Marquel Jermaine Rush shot a man inside a home in the 300 block of M.C. Wilder Road the evening of March 13.
Court records identified the victim as Michael Rush. The court records did not indicate Michael Rush's age or relationship to the suspect.
According to published reports, authorities allege a fight led to the shooting at about 8:30 p.m.

LOUISBURG -- Police arrested a Roxboro man they allege tried to run over his wife.
Louisburg police charged Frankie Gorham Cash with assault with a deadly weapon and domestic violence -- both misdemeanors -- after arresting him on March 15.
According to court documents, authorities allege Cash tried to hit the woman while driving a sport utility vehicle at J&S Auto Sales along Bickett Boulevard, south of town.

LOUISBURG -- Attempts by the estate of a Louisburg woman to claim $40 million in a drunk driving verdict remains bumpy.
Susan Renee Chappell, 51, was killed in a Sept. 18, 2020 head-on collision on U.S. 401 -- three miles south of Louisburg, not far from the county's airport.
According to the State Highway Patrol and court documents, Chappell was heading north on the two-lane highway that evening when Bunn's Shemaro Deann Webb was heading south.

FRANKLINTON -- In a swift meeting, town commissioners rezoned a small property, set public hearings to grow their town by two houses and allowed some citizens to perform civic duty.
The board agreed to rezone 307 Bullock Street -- a 15,411-square-foot property -- from Residential Single-family Medium density zoning to Residential Single-family High density.

LOUISBURG -- Three people were transported to the hospital and a section of U.S. 401 was shut down after a police chase led to a rear-end crash.
According to Trooper I.H. Alwadei a vehicle was traveling south on U.S. 401 after 3 p.m. on Thursday, March 12, when it came across a license plate recognition camera that alerted authorities that it was a stolen vehicle, believed to be from Durham.
Louisburg police gave chase, authorities said, and the suspect vehicle was alleged to have reached speeds of 100 mph when it ran into the back of a pickup truck just before the intersection of E.F. Cottrell Road.

Three Franklin County farmers have received a NC AgVentures Grant, a grant program aimed at supporting family farms.
April Lloyd, Mamata Wachhe, and Kaleb Ervin are among 68 recipients earning grants between $2,000 and $10,000 from the NC AgVentures Farm Grant Program.
The funding for the competitive grant is provided through the N.C. Tobacco Trust Fund Commission and is administered by NC Cooperative Extension.
The grants are awarded for agricultural project ideas aimed at helping family farms increase their capacity.

LOUISBURG -- Police arrested a Warrenton man on a litany of drug charges.
Anthony Lamont Lynch, 19, was arrested March 15 and placed in the Franklin County jail in lieu of a $50,000 bond.
According to court documents, Lynch was in possession of more than 10 grams of marijuana and about 36 grams of cocaine when he was arrested inside a Nissan Altima.

Members of the Centerville and Gold Sand fire departments joined forces to help Helene-devastated communities in the mountains of North Carolina. Many fire departments in the western part of the state lost virtually everything -- from trucks to buildings to equipment and even contact with those outside their communities. But eventually local firefighters and their supporters were able to deliver a check for $47,304.50 to help the Egypt-Ramseytown Volunteer Fire Department in Yancey County.