With so many people in the area struggling to maintain healthy lifestyles, Edgecombe Community College is offering students a chance to help their neighbors to better health.

Thanks to a $25,000 grant through Durham-based Manpower Development Corp., which develops projects to reduce poverty, the…

In keeping with a long-standing tradition, students and staff hosted a Veterans Day breakfast on Monday at Our Lady of Perpetual Help Catholic School.

The invitation was extended to veterans within the school and parish as well as the broader Rocky Mount community. The pastor of…

East Carolina University seeks to significantly increase its general scholarship offerings for first-year students with the new Chancellor’s Scholars program.

While ECU has long championed support for high achievers and those most in need, the new initiative aims to recruit a vast array of…

TARBORO — In a Sept. 7 game against North Edgecombe, one the Tarboro football team would go on to win, 62-0, Kimani McDaniels was a nervous wreck.

At one point during the contest, while on the sidelines after fumbling his second snap of the game, the junior quarterback, fighting for a…

Two Southern Nash volleyball players, along with a pair of Rocky Mount High athletes and one from Northern Nash were named to the Big East’s All-Conference volleyball team.

Southern Nash’s first-team representatives were Leah Longmire and Lyndsey Turner. The Firebirds finished tied for…

CHAPEL HILL, N.C. — Kenny Williams scored 12 points after starting the season by missing his first 10 shots, and No. 7 North Carolina dominated the first half to beat Stanford 90-72 on Monday night in its home opener.

Cameron Johnson had 17 points to lead four players in double figures for…