Samuel William Bland Jr., born April 14, 1929, in Rocky Mount, died Nov. 9 in Harrisonburg, Va.

He was born the son of Samuel W. Bland Sr. and Pearl Whitfield Bland and was a graduate of Rocky Mount Senior High School.

He assisted his family with the grocery store they owned, worked with the…

Renowned author Douglas Quinn of the recently penned "Cornfield Boys" and illustrator Donna Higgins-Colson made a recent visit to the home place of Baseball Hall of Famer Walter "Buck" Leonard.

Inspired by the love of baseball, Quinn discovered a set of Negro League players baseball cards…

The Improved Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks of the World recently celebrated 120 years of charity and service to the community.

The IBPOEW organization is headquartered in Winton, N.C., and boasts a membership of over 500,000 worldwide. Leonard J. Polk currently serves as the grand exalted…

CLEVELAND (AP) — Cam Newton’s unique fashion choices remain exciting.

Everything else about the Carolina Panthers looks stale.

Unable to come up with big plays down the stretch again, the reeling Panthers suffered their fifth straight loss, a 26-20 setback to the Cleveland Browns on…

Kansas is back where it started the season.

The preseason No. 1, the Jayhawks are again the top-ranked in The Associated Press Top 25 despite struggling to get past New Mexico State at home. Kansas received 57 first-place votes from a 65-person media panel in the poll released Monday, sliding into…

NORMAN, Okla. (AP) — Newly minted Heisman Trophy winner Kyler Murray is apologizing for anti-gay tweets posted to his Twitter account several years ago, when he was 14 and 15.

The Oklahoma quarterback tweeted : “I apologize for the tweets that have come to light tonight from when I was…