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A daily look at some of The News & Observer headlines on this date in past years.
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On this day in 2018, a 12,000-square foot mansion in North Raleigh set a new recording for most expensive home sold in Wake County, bearing a price tag of $5.5 million.
The house near Falls Lake, which featured nine bathrooms, a pool, a wet bar and fitness center, sat on 5 acres. And while the sprawling house’s buyer was not revealed, the new owner’s address matched that of Eli Global, the international investment firm founded by Greg Lindberg.
Lindberg, now in federal prison after pleading guilty in an insurance fraud case, is seeking a pardon from President Trump.
Sheriff’s deputies arrested country singer Johnny Paycheck in Raleigh in a three-year-old legal fight alleging he owed $26,000 to a Goldsboro man for failing to appear at a 1979 concert.
Paycheck, most famous for “Take This Job and Shove It,” was taken into custody through a rarely used NC law dating to 1868, aimed at people who might leave the state without paying civil judgments. Paycheck was reportedly “very cordial.”
A 55-year-old man went on trial in Raleigh for throwing a metal ashtray at the head of Raleigh City Manager Roy S. Braden, leaving a small abrasion.
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Defendant Walter S. Coley told reporters he had a grievance with Braden’s office and committed the assault to publicize the problem in court, and the city manager would testify to Coley shouting, “What the goddamn hell are you trying to do to me? Run me out of town?”
Among the witnesses subpoenaed for the prosecution: then-WRAL reporter Jesse Helms.
Given his day in court, Coley chose to keep silent.
In 1926, a “strange young lady” arrived at the Winton Hotel in Hertford County, asking for a room for the night and introducing herself as Miss Cumberland from Cumberland, Maryland.
The proprietor looked suspicious when she turned out her purse and produced only 83 cents, but the young woman begged to do any available work, so she stayed.
The next day townfolk noticed she looked homesick, so they approached the mayor, who contacted the welfare officer, who made some inquiries.
It turned out Miss Cumberland was actually Marie Bruce, not yet 16, whose father served as corporal at nearby Fort Monroe. “Hold her till I get there,” the corporal telegrammed.
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Their reunion, The N&O reported, was delightful.