What started out as a mission trip to help others turned into a learning experience of a lifetime for two Edgecombe Community College students.

Connor Massey and LeighAnn Champagne spent a week in November in the Dominican Republic as part of a trip set up by Suzi Shippen-Wagner, their Surgical…

Our Lady of Perpetual Help Catholic School for the first time sent three teams to the N.C. Regional Future City Competition on Jan. 27 at the McKimmon Center at N.C. State University.

About 200 middle school students from across the state presented their projects. N.C. State engineering…

Lenette Britt, author of “Ma B’s Lesson on Black History,” will be the focus of two local events.

She will be at a book signing at noon on Sunday at Word Tabernacle Church and is scheduled to read at 4:30 p.m. Tuesday at Braswell Memorial Library.

Britt said she grew up…

DURHAM, N.C. (AP) — RJ Barrett leads the Atlantic Coast Conference in scoring. He just recorded Duke’s first triple-double in 13 years.

And — as long as his roommate Zion Williamson is still around — he won’t have top billing for the top-ranked Blue Devils.…

For Rocky Mount High basketball, it was a different game but the same story.

Entering Monday, the Gryphons (13-10, 3-8) had lost seven of their 10 conference games, with six of those being by six points or fewer, including one- and two-point losses to Big East opponent Wilson Hunt.

Looking to break…

Hannah Evans has spent the past four years trying to prove that she belongs on a basketball court.

On Monday, it all came together for the Northern Nash sophomore. Evans scored a team-high 14 points to lead the fifth-seeded Knights (11-12, 6-5) to a 53-38 win over fourth-seeded Wilson Fike in the…