Granville County commissioners focused most of their attention on a proposed employee health insurance plan during their Monday evening budget workshop.

Shyzer Monquez Ormond received a nearly six-year sentence Monday in U.S. District Court for drug and firearms offenses.

Arrests, citation reports from the Henderson Police Department and the Vance County Sheriff's Office.

Myiesha Monique Williams has been arrested by Vance County sheriff’s deputies and is facing charges of first-degree murder connected to the death of a Northern Vance High School teenager. Williams is believed to have been the driver in the Dec. 11 shooting of Deonte Malik Judkins, a 16-year-old at Northern. An arrest warrant was signed by Lt. Joseph Ferguson, a detective with the sheriff’s office.

Each segment of the 95-foot ladder at the Oxford Fire Department has to be meticulously cleaned and then re-greased and inspected as part of annual maintenance on the truck.

Public input is being sought on a recently released Environmental Assessment of the Kerr Reservoir prepared by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.

City commissioners are expected tonight to consider a request from the Kerr-Tar Regional Council of Governments for a one-time special assessment in the amount of $11,761.

The local history and genealogical collection of Perry Memorial Library will be enriched by a gift of more than 100 books and microfilm reels received recently from the Mary Leigh Dean Boisseau Genealogical Collection.

Subscribers to our E-edition, the replica version of our printed edition that appears here on hendersondispatch.com, will be unavailable for six hours Monday, May 13.

Arrests, citation reports from the Henderson Police Department and the Vance County Sheriff's Office.