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KNIGHTDALE, N.C. A police officer in North Carolina was struck and killed early Sunday morning when an alleged impaired driver plowed into him and his field training officer (FTO) as they were at the scene of a separate collision on the highway.
Officer Ryan Hayworth of the Knightdale Police Dep
A North Carolina police officer, who was a former Army solider and the son of a retired police chief, was struck and killed early Sunday morning when an alleged drunk driver plowed into him and his partner responding to a separate accident along the highway early Sunday.
Knightdale Has a New Mayor, Jessica Day
Knightdale s town council unanimously appointed one of its own, mayor pro tem Jessica Day, to serve as the town s mayor through the end of the year. A special election in December will determine who holds the office through 2023.
David Williams
Day succeeds former mayor James Roberson, who Gov. Cooper appointed to  fill the seat left open by Rep. Darren Jackson, a Democrat, in the state s House District 39. Jackson was appointed to serve on the North Carolina Court of Appeals.Â
Day was elected to the town council in 2019. On the council, she has served as a liaison to the town s Public Safety Advisory Board, Parks and Recreation Advisory Board, the Knightdale Chamber of Commerce, and the Triangle J Council of Governments. She recently facilitated a community policing forum in partnership with the Knightdale Police Department.Â