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Inmate Brandon Lineberger (#1040661) died Friday morning at Pasquotank Correctional Institution after an apparent suicide. He was found unresponsive in his cell Thursday night at approximately 11:24 p.m. Prison medical staff and local paramedics responded and worked to resuscitate the inmate. He was pronounced dead at 12 a.m. this morning at the facility by EMS
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North Carolina’s Federal Disaster declaration has been amended to include FEMA Individual Assistance (IA) for three additional counties: Chatham, Durham and Guilford. Individuals and businesses are able to apply for disaster assistance for uninsured and underinsured damage and losses resulting from Hurricane Florence.
With the addition of these three counties, 34 counties have now been approved for FEMA IA.
The Division of Adult Correction and Juvenile Justice has named Barney Owens as the new superintendent at Pamlico Correctional Institution in Bayboro.
Owens, 52, is a 24-year employee with the Department of Public Safety. He has spent the last 18 years at Pamlico CI after a promotion from Craven Correctional Institution to correctional lieutenant in 2000. He was promoted to captain in 2005, and then assistant superintendent of custody and operations in 2015.
Owens, a native of New Bern, has an associate degree in criminal justice from Craven Community College.
The Division of Adult Correction and Juvenile Justice has named William Glick as the new superintendent at Davidson Correctional Center in Lexington, a facility he once worked at as an assistant superintendent.
The Division of Adult Correction and Juvenile Justice has named Bruce Hodges the new director of the Robeson Confinement in Response to Violation (CRV) Center in Lumberton.
Hodges, 54, had been the assistant director of the Robeson CRV since January 2015. Prior to that, he was in Community Corrections as a chief probation/parole officer, probation/parole officer and general instructor in Wake County.
The Division of Adult Correction and Juvenile Justice has named Jeffery Daniels as the new superintendent at Wilkes Correctional Center in North Wilkesboro.
Daniels, 45, had been the Western Region Security Coordinator for the 18 facilities assigned to the region office in Valdese since January of 2015. He was responsible for security issues, Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA) case tracking, and assisting the region director and operations manager.
North Carolina renters who had uninsured or underinsured losses due to Hurricane Florence may be eligible for disaster recovery assistance from FEMA and the U.S. Small Business Administration.
Grants
Renters may be eligible for grants from FEMA to help with disaster-related expenses, such as:
The driver sought in a hit-and-run collision that occurred in Vance County was located by investigators Monday, October 22, after an intensive search.
The ReBuild NC program has now opened a ninth application center in Pender County to provide assistance to Hurricane Matthew survivors in the surrounding area. This additional application center joins eight existing centers located in Bertie, Bladen, Columbus, Cumberland, Edgecombe, Lenoir, Robeson and Wayne counties.
The Pender County Application Center is located at:
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8:57 a.m. - At approximately 12:15 a.m. on Wednesday, October 17, a state trooper stopped a white GMC pickup truck for a speeding violation on US 701 near Sellers Town Rd in Columbus County. The driver of the pickup pulled over onto the shoulder and the trooper made his initial approach. The driver of the pickup then fired several shots, striking the trooper.