Crews began breaking up large boulders on the ground and removing unstable rocks on the mountain yesterday as they begin work to clean up debris and stabilize the area where a rock slide occurred Oct. 25 on I-40 in North Carolina near the Tennessee line. The slide is about 150 feet high and 200-300 feet wide and the majority of debris is rock.

The N.C. Department of Transportation has hired Phillips & Jordan Inc. of Knoxville, Tenn. and rock stabilization specialist Jonad Contractors of Champion, NY to perform the work.

BAYBORO – A veteran Pamlico County deputy has been charged with Assault on a Female after Sheriff Billy Sawyer Jr. asked the State Bureau of Investigation to review the incident, which occurred Oct. 14 at a house on North Third Ave. in Bayboro.
Sawyer described Dwayne Cobb, 38, as a “good officer who has been with us for 13 years.” Sawyer added that he went outside his department to avoid any possible conflict of interest.
Pamlico County Magistrate Pam Spain issued an arrest warrant for Cobb two days after the incident in response to an affidavit filed by SBI officer Raymond Reeves who reported Cobb allegedly assaulted Pauline Elizabeth Abigail Armstrong, 30, “by choking her around the neck.”