For the third year in a row, 100 percent of Nash Community College faculty and staff contributed to the employee campaign raising scholarship funds for deserving students.

More than $34,000 was raised during this year’s campaign.

“I am constantly amazed by the outpouring of support this…

The winner of the LSV Scholarship Fund fundraiser “Win This Quilt” was Catherine Blackwell of Rocky Mount.

Blackwell was not present when Carmelo Gorham drew her name from the drawing box on Dec. 8 at Abrams Restaurant in Pinetops, but she was very happy to get the call. She said it was…

Four runners from the Rocky Mount Rockets youth cross country team competed in a national meet on Dec. 8 in Tennessee.

Mason Jones finished fourth in the 6U group. Maleah Grimes finished fifth, and Nakiyah Wilson placed seventh in the 7-year-old group, while Candrice Davis was sixth in the 9U group.…

N.C. Wesleyan baseball coach Greg Clifton finally got his man.

Nash Central’s Trey Whitley, whom Clifton has known and coached since, Whitey estimated, he was 8 years old, signed to play and enroll at N.C. Wesleyan in the fall of 2019 on Thursday at Nash Central High School.

The senior was…

CHARLOTTE — Hornets owner Michael Jordan said it was a “tap of endearment.”

After watching a bizarre ending to Charlotte’s win against Detroit on Wednesday, a bewildered Jordan lightly smacked the back of second-year guard Malik Monk’s head in closing seconds of the…

RALEIGH — As part of the annual Championship Press Conference in the Vaughn Towers at N.C. State, the 16 head coaches of the 16 high school football programs playing for a state title this weekend were honored and interviewed on Wednesday morning.

For Tarboro’s Jeff Craddock, this…