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Throughout 2022, the announcements of new businesses and projects coming to Jacksonville sent waves through Onslow County.

The Jacksonville Treatment Center has moved to Huff Drive. Parents are concerned about the proximity to their children.

In reflecting on his success in the furniture trade in Eastern North Carolina, Travis Rose once compared himself to a bee that discovered it could fly despite its paper-thin wings. “I wanted to fly, but I didn't know I could,” he told a Daily News reporter for a story on his company's 50th anniversary in 2003. "I guess I finally got my wings." Rose went from a young furniture salesman right out of the Navy to become the patriarch of Rose Brothers Furniture, a Jacksonville-based retail giant with stores scattered across Eastern North Carolina. He died Feb. 18 at age 91 after recently suffe...

February 2, 2021 Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey on Monday signed 30-year leases for new prisons to be constructed near Atmore and in Elmore County. The two new men’s correctional facilities wilk be constructed by CoreCivic’s Developer Team. The state signed a lease agreement with Government Real Estate Solutions of South Alabama, LLC, a CoreCivic entity, for the Escambia County facility on Bell Fork near Atmore. The agreements are not subject to annual renegotiation; however, options to negotiate occupancy extensions beyond the 30-year lease term are available to the state. The Alabama Department ...