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Regional Briefs: Man, 45, is accused of sex crime with teen
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Published: November 24, 2009
ELKIN -- A Wilkes County man was charged last week with statutory sex offense with a 14-year-old boy and another offense, authorities said.
William Frederick Cosby, 45, of State Road also was charged with felony solicitation of a child by computer to commit a sex act, Elkin police said in a statement.
The State Bureau of Investigation and Elkin police arrested Cosby on Thursday after the boy was contacted on the Internet and approached by an adult on Nov. 13, police said.
Cosby was released Friday from the Surry County Jail in Dobson on a $100,000 bond. He is scheduled to appear in court Jan. 12.
Garbage pickup rescheduled in King because of holiday
KING -- Garbage usually picked up on Thursdays will be collected on Friday in King for the Thanksgiving holiday, said Brandie Knight, a spokeswoman for Waste Industries.
The town has curbside pickup for its garbage.
Coast Guard rescues five whose boat sank in Atlantic
ATLANTIC BEACH -- The Coast Guard saved five sailors this past weekend as their boat sank in the dark Atlantic Ocean.
The Coast Guard was called after the sailboat Lazy Jack started taking on water about 30 miles south of Cape Lookout Saturday night.
Ensign Caleb Peacock said that a helicopter based in Elizabeth City and a rescue boat from Fort Macon raced to the 48-foot boat, which is based in Charleston, S.C.
The Coast Guard said that rescuers found only a foot or two of the boat still above the surface.
The helicopter hoisted one person to safety, but the other passengers chose to wait in their life raft for more than an hour until the rescue boat arrived.
More than 2,000 attend funeral for 5-year-old girl
FAYETTEVILLE -- An overflow crowd of more than 2,000 people attended services for a 5-year-old North Carolina girl found dead nearly a week after she was reported missing.
Shaniya Davis's father on Sunday urged the crowd to help the community's needy.
Bradley Lockhart said that God has spoken to the gathering through a tragedy.
More than 1,500 people crowded into Manna Church and an additional 500 people watched the service from an adjacent building. Several hundred more waited outside.
White doves were released during a graveside service.
The girl's mother is charged with trafficking her daughter and child abuse involving prostitution.
A Fayetteville man is charged with first-degree murder and first-degree rape of a child.
North Carolina pastor killed on way home from golf trip
LANCASTER, S.C. -- The pastor of a North Carolina church has been killed in a wreck in South Carolina that injured seven people.
The Rev. Ronnie Wilson of Southpoint Free Will Baptist Church in Belmont died in the wreck late Saturday afternoon on state Highway 903 east of Lancaster.
Services were canceled at the church Sunday, but members gathered with deacons at the church to pray.
Wilson had led the church since 1999 and helped build a new building in 2005.
Wilson was driving a van with four men heading back from an annual golf trip to Myrtle Beach when the wreck happened. Authorities said that the van swerved to avoid a trailer that lost a tire and hit a pickup truck head-on.
Sulfuric acid stayed contained in derailment in South Carolina
GILBERT, S.C. -- Officials say that eight railroad cars, one loaded with thousands of gallons of sulfuric acid, derailed Sunday morning in a sparsely populated rural area west of Columbia.
Officials said that no injuries were reported and that residents of two nearby houses went to stay with relatives. The derailment took place near Gilbert, about 30 miles from the capital city. Officials said that no immediate danger had existed because the tank car containing the acid had not leaked.
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