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.…

AgCarolina Farm Credit recently announced a record donation of toys from members and employees for local needy children.

Nearly 950 toys were collected in the fourth year of AgCarolina’s participation in the toy drive.

The Toys for Tots campaign began in September in conjunction with member…

The Booker T. Washington Resource Center was the host of the 11th anniversary of the N.C. Association of Black High School Alumni Reunion.

Edgecombe County Sheriff Clee Atkinson was the keynote speaker.

“Testing, testing: 1-2-3” was how Atkinson started his presentation. He told 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…

Saturday just became a little more interesting.

The Tarboro and East Surry football teams will compete in the 1-AA state championship game at 6 p.m. on Saturday at N.C. State’s Carter-Finley Stadium. The stakes were upped this week when the team’s respective towns got involved.

Pilot…

Still groggy from the after effects of a state title run in football, the Faith Christian boys’ basketball team to start this 2018-19 season stumbled early.

The Patriots practiced only three times before jumping into their schedule, losing their first three games.

Since, though, they’ve…