Caroline Forrester and Rodolfo Salazar Jr. each were recently awarded $1,500 scholarships from the Rocky Mount Evening Optimist Club.

Open to high school seniors throughout the Twin Counties, the awards are presented to students who are determined through an essay to best represent the tenets…

Nash County Manager Zee Lamb recently was honored by the Rocky Mount Elks Lodge.

In an annual observance of Flag Day, the local lodge presented Lamb with a U.S. flag at a ceremony held June 15. Officially, Flag Day is celebrated nationally on June 14 annually.

By order of the national…

Members of the Tar River Amateur Radio Club will be participating in the national Amateur Radio Field Day exercise today and Sunday at the American Red Cross office at 326 S. Franklin St.

Since 1933, ham radio operators across North America have established temporary ham radio stations in public…

SONOMA, Calif. — Dale Earnhardt Jr. had just completed a satisfying sixth-place finish at Sonoma Raceway when he was stopped by the Fox Sports cameras in what might have been his final post-race interview with the network.

It was 17 years ago that Fox made its debut as NASCAR’s newest…

As New York Rangers players cleaned out their lockers after a second-round playoff exit, all the talk was about impending change.

That’s just getting started — for the Rangers and the rest of the NHL.

Big moves leading up to and at the draft by the Rangers, rival New York Islanders,…

CHAPEL HILL — North Carolina athletic director Bubba Cunningham has long talked about the need to build an indoor football practice facility or upgrade the aging home to the school’s soccer and lacrosse programs.

That work has finally begun as part of a roughly $100 million project, one…