With the retirement of Chief Deputy Bruce Temple set for the end of April, Halifax County Sheriff Wes Tripp named Major Scott Hall as his successor.
Vernon Bryant will remain chairman and Rives Manning vice chairman of the Halifax County Board of Commissioners.
The call was one demanding immediate action, Lieutenant Roy Rooks recalled — a man cutting himself in an isolated room of a barn.
Lieutenant Roy Rooks and Detective Obert Wiltsie of the Halifax County Sheriff's Office earned their criminal investigator's certificate after completing a two-year program of classes.
