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# The NC Beat

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- [Homosexual husband and wife upset after husband tries to sleep with his former pastor who rejected his advances](https://thencbeat.com/homosexual-husband-and-wife-upset-after-husband-tries-to-sleep-with-his-former-pastor-who-rejected-his-advances/): Word On The Curb... a couple from Atlanta, Georgia, is fuming after their failed attempt to seduce and expose their former pastor. The husband was turned down and offered deliverance, but instead of moving on, the couple launched a social media smear campaign against the pastor.
- [Wilmington Pastor’s Bombshell Apology Letter Drops as Church Property Hits the Market for $4.5 Million](https://thencbeat.com/wilmington-pastors-bombshell-apology/): Six months after explosive affair and grooming allegations rocked The Sanctuary of Wilmington (SOW) in Wilmington, North Carolina, Pastor Daniel Cook sent a lengthy “Dear Sanctuary Family” email admitting “unhealthy patterns,” taking “full responsibility for my failures,” and telling the shrinking congregation he is no longer everyone’s pastor.
- [Trump Jets Into Greenville, NC Tonight for Airport Rally as Cooper’s Double-Digit Lead Holds and GOP Super PACs Pull Cash](https://thencbeat.com/trump-greenville-nc-rally-cooper-whatley-polls/): President Donald Trump is back in the Tar Heel State today for a midterm rally at Pitt-Greenville Airport, doors open at 3:30 p.m., program at 5:30 p.m., and the president on stage at 7 p.m. It’s his fifth stop in Greenville and the second time he’s used the airport tarmac as a stage. The stated goal is to juice turnout for Senate candidate Michael Whatley and House hopeful Laurie Buckhout in the 1st District.
- [NC Pastor Killed Hours After Preaching “I Can’t Wait to Get to Heaven” — Off-Duty Durham Officer to Face Charges](https://thencbeat.com/mount-olive-pastor-killed-justin-heath/): A Mount Olive church leader who told his congregation “I can’t wait to get to heaven” during a Saturday night revival was killed hours later when an off-duty Durham police corporal allegedly ran a red light and slammed into the church van he was driving home, authorities said.
- [No Charges For Mississippi Cop Who Shot 1-Year-Old Kohen Wiley After Call Over Alleged Stolen Diapers At Mississippi Walmart](https://thencbeat.com/kohen-wiley-no-charges-senatobia-police-shooting/): Mississippi Attorney General Lynn Fitch cleared the Senatobia police officer who fired into a car and killed 1-year-old Kohen Wiley in a Walmart parking lot — ruling the use of force “justified” after months of investigation. Neither the toddler’s mother nor the driver has ever been charged with the alleged shoplifting that started it all.
- [Mr. K’s Specialty Lemonade Boss & Pastor Calls Sex Case “False Allegations” — Indictment Says He Rubbed Over 14-Year-Old’s Pants “By Force”](https://thencbeat.com/mr-ks-specialty-lemonade-sex-offender-registry/): Court records show he served 60 days and was placed on 36 months of probation. Last address verified on the registry was on July 22, 2026, at the same address used for Mr. K’s Specialty Lemonade LLC, where he is the registered agent.
- [Teen Without a License Charged with Double Murder After Wrong-Way, Lights-Out Drunk Crash Kills Two Women on Charlotte’s I-277](https://thencbeat.com/kati-covarrubias-barron-charged-murder-i-277-crash/): A 19-year-old who police say had never held a driver’s license is facing second-degree murder charges after she allegedly drove the wrong way on I-277 without headlights, slammed head-on into oncoming traffic at roughly 58 mph, and left two women dead in the early hours of Sunday.
- [Obama Unloads on Trump Over ‘Appalling’ Bid to Target and Deport Ilhan Omar](https://thencbeat.com/obama-blasts-trump-ilhan-omar-raid/): Former President Barack Obama dropped a rare, scathing broadside Sunday against the Trump administration, accusing it of weaponizing the full power of the federal government to intimidate and potentially deport one of the president’s fiercest critics — Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar — simply for speaking out.
- [NC Gas Prises Crash To Nation’s Lowest — $3.61 A Gallon After Tax Cut Hits The Pumps](https://thencbeat.com/north-carolina-gas-prices-lowest-in-us/): North Carolina just seized the cheapest gas crown in America.
- [Roxboro NC Cop Busted After Allegedly Challenging Security Guard to Fight While Intoxicated](https://thencbeat.com/roxboro-nc-police-officer-arrested-joseph-downey-jr/): A Roxboro, NC police officer is on administrative leave after Raleigh cops arrested him early Sunday outside a Glenwood South bar, accusing the 32-year-old of getting intoxicated in public, challenging a security guard to a fight, and then resisting when officers tried to stop it.
- [NC Pastor Scores $62.2M Jury Win in Racial Discrimination Case Against The Word Network Over Racist ‘Pimp’ Meme](https://thencbeat.com/george-bloomer-62-2-million-racial-discrimination/): Durham’s Bishop George Bloomer walked out of a Detroit federal courtroom with a $62.2 million jury verdict after a years-long fight over what he called racially charged harassment from the white owner of the country’s biggest African-American religious TV network, The Word Network.
- [UNC Soccer Defender Cristian Milazzo Busted Again for Violating Protective Order](https://thencbeat.com/cristian-milazzo-protective-order-violation-unc/): Junior defender Cristian Milazzo, a 22-year-old from Cary who wears No. 31 for the Tar Heels, was arrested Wednesday morning after a magistrate issued a warrant Tuesday. Chapel Hill Police took him into custody and booked him into the Orange County Detention Center in Hillsborough. District Court Judge Todd Roper later released him on a $2,500 unsecured bond, with explicit orders for “absolutely no contact whatsoever with the victim” and full compliance with the existing protective order.
- [More Than 200,000 North Carolinians Cast Ballots on First Day of North Carolina Early Voting](https://thencbeat.com/north-carolina-early-voting-first-day-201609/): North Carolina early voting exploded out of the gate Thursday as more than 200,000 voters flooded the polls on the opening day of the 2026 midterm early voting period.
- [Bombshell Nolan Wells Text Messages: ‘Ask for a Lawyer’](https://thencbeat.com/bombshell-nolan-wells-text-messages-ask-for-a-lawyer/): The private Nolan Wells text messages do not read like a group of pals simply worried about a missing friend. They read like a circle that quickly clocked something off, then spent the next hours warning each other to shut up, lawyer up, and stick to a script while the body of an 18-year-old was still missing.
- [3 Kids — Ages 5, 8 and 11 — Slaughtered in Bend, Oregon Elementary School Shooting; 16-Year-Old Gunman Stopped by Armed Bystander](https://thencbeat.com/bend-oregon-school-shooting-3-kids-killed/): BEND, Ore. — Three elementary school children were gunned down Thursday when a 16-year-old opened fire inside Silver Rail Elementary School, police confirmed, in a brazen midday massacre that left a teacher dead and two more people fighting for their lives.
- [North Carolina Polls Open TODAY – Here’s Exactly What to Bring and Why You Can’t Wait](https://thencbeat.com/early-voting-starts-today-in-north-carolina-2026/): North Carolina’s early voting period is officially open as of this morning. Across the state, 370 early voting sites are accepting ballots for the November 3 general election, and voters can cast them at any early voting location in their county — not just their assigned Election Day precinct.
- [Appeals Court Blocks Karmelo Anthony’s Push to Open Sealed Clerk’s Record](https://thencbeat.com/karmelo-anthony-sealed-clerks-record-appeal-denied/): The Fifth Court of Appeals denied Karmelo Sincere Anthony’s request to stop the entire clerk’s record from staying sealed — then put his appeal right back on hold.
- [Violent Repeat Offender Busted in Franklin County Slaying of Young Mom and Teacher](https://thencbeat.com/devon-whaley-rasheka-crudup/): Devon Whaley, 35, was booked Monday in the death of Rasheka Crudup at a home on Lane Store Road, according to Franklin County Sheriff Kevin White. White described the victim in a public post as “a beloved young woman, a mother of two beautiful children, a caregiver, a teacher, and a deeply cherished friend to many in our community.” He added that simply saying “I’m sorry” “isn’t good enough.”
- [2 Men Get Life in Prison for Mary Collins Murder After Stabbing Her 130 Times in NoDa](https://thencbeat.com/mary-collins-murder-life-sentence-pham-salerno-noda/): A Mecklenburg County jury on Monday handed life sentences without parole to two men convicted of luring a 20-year-old Charlotte woman with a cognitive disability to a NoDa apartment, then beating and stabbing her more than 130 times before wrapping her body and hiding it inside a mattress.
- [Winston-Salem Man Arrested After Allegedly Smashing Victim in the Face with a Chair, Threatening to Shoot Him — All Because of His Race and Color](https://thencbeat.com/nathan-keith-danner-warrant-ethnic-intimidation/): According to a Wake County warrant for arrest issued Wednesday, Oct. 14, 2026, Nathan Keith Danner, of Hartford St., Winston-Salem, is charged with assault inflicting serious injury, ethnic intimidation, and communicating threats. The alleged victim is identified in the charging documents as Derrick Inman.
- [NC Marine Jordan Joines Accidentally Shot Himself In The Head While Demonstrating Firearm To Others](https://thencbeat.com/jordan-joines-accidental-shooting-jacksonville/): Jordan Joines, a 21-year-old U.S. Marine, died after an accidental self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head while demonstrating the mechanics of a firearm to several individuals in the front yard of a home on Sanders Street in Jacksonville, NC. Officers responded to the call on Monday, October 12, 2026, at 123-A Sanders Street, where they located Joines with the fatal injury.
- [Six Flags ‘Goliath’ Rider Who Plunged to His Death Had Beaten Cancer and Survived A Care Fire Weeks Earlier: Sister](https://thencbeat.com/hassan-kariem-six-flags-goliath-death/): Hassan Kariem plunged from the 200-foot hypercoaster in Cobb County after slipping from his restraint, according to witnesses and preliminary police findings. Officers found him unresponsive and not breathing beneath the attraction around 3:58 p.m. He struck other riders before falling.
- [Nyasia Palmer Sentenced to Up to 7 Years After 113 MPH Crash That Killed UNC Student](https://thencbeat.com/nyasia-palmer-sentenced-113-mph-crash-unc-student/): A Morrisville, North Carolina woman who already had a revoked license and a string of prior speeding convictions was sent to prison after she barreled down a Durham road at triple-digit speeds in the early morning hours of October 5, 2023, killing a University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill student and leaving another passenger paralyzed.
- [Hassan Jihad Ibn Kariem Plunges to His Death on Six Flags Goliath, Forcing Carowinds to Shut Down Two Major Coasters](https://thencbeat.com/hassan-jihad-ibn-kariem-dies-six-flags-goliath/): Hassan Jihad Ibn Kariem, a 42-year-old Atlanta educator, was ejected from his seat and fell to his death on the Goliath roller coaster at Six Flags Over Georgia on Monday, prompting the company to immediately close two of Carowinds’ biggest rides in the Charlotte area as a precaution.
- [Winston-Salem State University Field Markings Go Viral After Worker Spray-Paints Crooked Lines](https://thencbeat.com/winston-salem-state-university-field-markings/): A worker was filmed painting Winston-Salem State University field markings with nothing more than a can of white spray paint and a freehand approach at Bowman Gray Stadium, and the resulting crooked lines quickly went viral.
- [CMPD Officers Racist Texts: Names Released as 4 Resign, 2 Face Civil Service Board](https://thencbeat.com/cmpd-officers-racist-texts-firing/): The Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department has released the names of the six officers cited for termination over racist texts, and four of them have already resigned in lieu of firing, according to official personnel records posted by the department on Monday.
- [Barack Obama Endorses Roy Cooper in New Ad for High-Stakes North Carolina Senate Race](https://thencbeat.com/barack-obama-endorses-roy-cooper-in-new-ad/): Former President Barack Obama endorses Roy Cooper in a brand-new television ad released Tuesday, throwing his full support behind the former North Carolina governor in the race for U.S. Senate.
- [NC Pastor Out on $5K Bond After Warrant Alleges She Punched Disabled 78-Year-Old Mom in the Nose](https://thencbeat.com/asia-francis-charged-assault-disabled-mother/): Asia Francis, 58, faces two misdemeanors: assault on an individual with a disability and misdemeanor crime of domestic violence. The warrant, issued October 2 lists the date of offense as September 30 and names Marie Roberts as the victim.
- [Lumberton NC Man Arrested After Years on the Run, Charged with Sex Offenses Against His Own Cousins — Including a 14-Year-Old](https://thencbeat.com/jerrell-tate-arrest-robeson-county-sex-offenses/): Jerrell Tate was booked into the Robeson County Detention Center on October 10, 2026, by the Robeson County Sheriff’s Office. Warrants reviewed by The NC Beat charges Tate with Crimes Against Nature and Statutory Rape of a Child 15 or Younger and a second warrant charges him with Crimes Against Nature and Second Degree Force Sex Offense.
- [NC Musician Gets 18 Months for $8M AI Bot Streaming Scam That Outstreamed Taylor Swift](https://thencbeat.com/nc-musician-michael-smith-gets-18-months/): Michael Smith, of Cornelius (north of Charlotte), was ordered by U.S. District Judge John G. Koeltl in Manhattan federal court to serve 18 months, followed by two years of supervised release. He was also ordered to forfeit $8,091,843.64.
- [Cincinnati Father on Trial for Mowing Down Deputy Hours After Watching Bodycam of Cops Killing His Son](https://thencbeat.com/rodney-hinton-jr-trial-deputy-larry-henderson/): Rodney Hinton Jr., 40, is now on trial in Hamilton County Common Pleas Court on charges including aggravated murder. He has pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity. The death penalty was removed earlier this year after psychologists diagnosed him with serious mental illness, including bipolar disorder with psychotic features.
- [Faith Hedgepeth Trial: Jurors Sob as Autopsy Photos Hit Screen](https://thencbeat.com/faith-hedgepeth-trial/): Faith Hedgepeth trial finally opened last week after 14 years of cold-case limbo, genetic genealogy breakthroughs, and endless speculation.
- [Registered Sex Offender Found Dead In Onslow County Jail Cell](https://thencbeat.com/christopher-brookins-dead-onslow-jail-sbi/): A detention officer at the Onslow County Detention Center in Jacksonville, North Carolina, found Christopher James Brookins, 55, a registered sex offender from Kinston, unresponsive in his cell around 4 a.m. Sunday in what officials described as an apparent medical emergency, the Onslow County Sheriff’s Office said.
- [NC Mom Drove 4.6 Miles at 60 MPH With Boyfriend Clinging to Hood](https://thencbeat.com/janecia-greenfield-williams-arrest-boyfriend-hood/): A 23-year-old Kinston woman is locked up after deputies say she tore down a Lenoir County highway for nearly five miles with her boyfriend desperately hanging onto the hood of her car — and her 3-year-old child riding inside.
- [NC Traffic Stop Ties Two Men to Stolen Car of Slain Orlando Architect](https://thencbeat.com/edward-chiarappa-arrest-patrick-herman-stolen-car/): Court documents out of Davidson, North Carolina, names a dead man as the victim of a stolen car. Edward Chiarappa and Douglas Titus were pulled over on Sept. 8 in a blue 2015 Honda Civic after a license-plate reader alert. The arrest report lists vehicle theft.
- [High Point Mother Kymberli Bowden Charged With First-Degree Murder in 13-Year-Old Daughter’s Death](https://thencbeat.com/kymberli-bowden-high-point-murder-charge/): High Point police said detectives charged Kymberli Bowden with first-degree murder on Thursday, Oct. 8, 2026, while she was already locked up at the Guilford County Jail in High Point. She is being held with no bond.
- [Former Brunswick County Lieutenant Daniel Heith Little Hit With 18 Charges in Flock Camera Probe](https://thencbeat.com/daniel-heith-little-arrest-brunswick-county/): Daniel Heith Little, 47, a former lieutenant with the Brunswick County Sheriff’s Office, was arrested Oct. 5 after a Brunswick County grand jury returned a true bill charging him with misusing the agency’s Flock Safety automated license plate reader system, according to the North Carolina State Bureau of Investigation and court records.
- [Durham Firefighter Killed in Line of Duty After Roof Collapse Traps Crews at Marly Drive Blaze](https://thencbeat.com/durham-firefighter-killed-in-line-of-duty/): DURHAM, N.C. — A Durham firefighter is dead after the roof of a burning building came down on crews in the dark hours of Thursday morning.
- [Trent Out Loud Sued For Defamation For Covering Nolan Wells Case](https://thencbeat.com/trent-out-loud-outloud-lawsuit-nolan-wells/): Trent Hall, who broadcasts as Trent Out Loud from Montreal, was sued Oct. 7 in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi, Southern Division. The plaintiffs are Benjamin Warren Hudson Jr., Eli Jax Pitalo and Morgan Seymour, all between 18 and 21 and therefore minors under Mississippi law, suing through their fathers. Their lawyer is J. Tyler Cox of Taylor and Cox Law Firm in Pascagoula.
- [North Carolina Mom Capresha Jones Charged After 6-Year-Old Found Walking on Highway 70 Twice](https://thencbeat.com/capresha-jones-arrested-highway-70-kinston/): Officers took custody of the child and transported him to the Kinston Police Department. They then checked nearby hotels and located his mother, 36-year-old Capresha Jones.
- [‘Intoxicated’ Raleigh Detective Fired After Wake Forest Bar Assault Charges](https://thencbeat.com/christopher-andre-reed-arrest/): Wake Forest police say 32-year-old Raleigh detective Christopher Andre Reed — off duty, identified by officers as intoxicated — was charged after a blow-up at Carolina Ale House that started inside the restaurant and ended on Capital Boulevard with a paramedic kicked in the groin and a yell at officers to “shoot him.”
- [NC Lawmakers Vote to Suspend the Gas Tax](https://thencbeat.com/nc-lawmakers-vote-to-suspend-41-cent-gas-tax/): With 27 days until Election Day, North Carolina lawmakers suspended the state’s 41-cent-per-gallon motor fuel tax.
- [NC Man Accused Of Engaging In Sexual Act With A 7-Year-Old](https://thencbeat.com/richlands-man-aaron-deshano-charged-sex-offenses/): Aaron Deshano was arrested Friday, Oct. 2, 2026, and charged with four felonies, according to court documents. He's charged with two counts of statutory sex offense with a child by an adult and two counts of indecent liberties with a child.
- [Appeals Court Pause Karmelo Anthony’s Case While Collin County Figures Out What’s Been Sealed](https://thencbeat.com/appeals-court-pause-karmelo-anthony-case/): Karmelo Sincere Anthony’s appeal has been paused, and the reason is the one thing his appeallate attorneys have been fighting the whole time which is secrecy.
- [Sarah Fields Called Police On Husband After Verbal Altercation; He Admitted Suicidal Statement Tied To First Wife’s Death](https://thencbeat.com/sarah-fields-called-police-on-husband-in-2023/): A Whitehouse, Texas Police Department report obtained by The NC Beat says officers took Darius Jonathan Wright into custody in the early hours of February 19, 2023, after he admitted a suicidal statement tied to the death of his first wife.
- [Greensboro Attorney Charged After Hidden Drugs Found in Jail Package](https://thencbeat.com/greensboro-attorney-charged-in-drug-case/): A 69-year-old Greensboro attorney was booked after investigators said he tried to bring concealed controlled substances into the Greensboro Detention Center for an inmate he represented. Deputies say the drugs were hidden inside a package that detention staff flagged as suspicious.
- [Alabama Man Accused of Killing Wife Arrested in Fairmont After Gunpoint Drive to NC](https://thencbeat.com/mason-parnell-winfield-alabama-wife-killed/): A 22-year-old Alabama man accused of shooting his wife dead in their kitchen, then forcing a relative at gunpoint to drive him and two children across state lines, is sitting in a North Carolina jail with no bond.
- [Indian Man Flew 8,000 Miles To NC To Find Teen Who Blocked Him, Charged With Sex Crimes](https://thencbeat.com/prit-pankaj-jain-arrest-davidson-county/): Prit Pankaj Jain, 31, of Mumbai, India, was booked into the Davidson County Detention Center on Sept. 24, 2026, and ordered held without bond. The Davidson County Sheriff’s Office says he faces four counts of first-degree sexual exploitation of a minor, four counts of third-degree sexual exploitation of a minor, and one count of sexual extortion.
- [Goldsboro NC Teen Allegedly Killed By His 18-Year-Old Cousin](https://thencbeat.com/zaki-wallace-goldsboro-shooting-nevayah-smith/): A Goldsboro family recently identified 16-year-old Zaki Wallace as the teenager shot and killed inside a home on Olivia Lane early Monday — and according to a Facebook post by Zaki's mom, the woman now locked up on a murder charge is his own cousin.
- [North Carolina Middle School Teacher Resigns After Soliciting-Prostitution Charge](https://thencbeat.com/wake-teacher-david-choi-soliciting-prostitution/): The classroom door has been slammed shut in the face of one North Carolina educator.
- [Terrell Owens Sued for Defamation Over “Arrest Them” Post in Nolan Wells Case](https://thencbeat.com/terrell-owens-sued-for-defamation-nolan-wells/): Terrell Owens who donated $25,000 to the reward fund for information regarding the death of 18-year-old Nolan Wells has been sued over a five-word X post calling for the arrest of Benjamin Warren Hudson Jr., Eli Jax Pitalo, and Morgan Seymour.

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