Several Edgecombe County Public School educators were recipients of Bright Ideas Grants from Edgecombe-Martin County Electric Membership Corp.

Bright Ideas grants provide funding for innovative, classroom-based projects that would otherwise not be possible. Since 1994, the grants have touched the…

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…

DURHAM — Duke basketball will be tested at some point this season.

That test did not come Wednesday night at Cameron Indoor Stadium.

In the first half against Eastern Michigan, Zion Williamson had four dunks, including an alley-oop from R.J. Barrett that immediately went viral.…

Two years ago the name Houshun Gaines meant nothing to me, Nash Central wasn’t a school I had heard of, and Virginia Tech was just another team I’d see pop up on TV here and there.

Now, the three are entangled in my mind because of Gaines and his tenacity to overcome unavoidable lows…

A pair of Rocky Mount Academy athletes on Wednesday signed national letters of intent to play sports in college.

Kayla Miller, a senior swimmer and two-time Telegram swimmer of the year, signed to swim at the University of Utah, a Division I program. Tiffany Chandler also signed to play volleyball…