The Rocky Mount City Council agenda for today includes a request by City Manager Rochelle Small-Toney to go into closed session right after the council concludes regular business.

The agenda shows Small-Toney is citing the need to discuss personnel and attorney-client privilege as the exemptions to…

Voters in the Nashville municipal election for mayor and two town council seats are going to get the chance to meet and hear from the candidates.

A forum is set for 7 p.m. Tuesday in the town council chamber in the Harold D. Cooley Library in the 100 block of West Church Street. The Nashville…

The issue of the Rocky Mount metropolitan area consistently having the highest jobless and underemployment rates of metro areas in North Carolina was one of many questions asked at a forum of candidates for city offices.

The forum was held late last week in Barnes Auditorium at Edgecombe Community…

TV hosts and Top 10 Billboard artists Nu-Blu will perform Oct. 19 at the Nash Arts Center in Nashville.

If there’s one thing that award-winning acoustic band Nu-Blu knows how to do, its turn heads with their powerful music. In the last year alone, the four-time Billboard Top 10 artists have…

Residents are invited to take part in the Twin Counties Big Sweep Day from 9 a.m. until noon on Sept. 28.

Teams will meet at the boat ramp in Battle Park in Rocky Mount and River Front Park in Tarboro. The Big Sweep is an annual event that allows civic groups, schools and neighborhoods to clean up…

Vera Morris, the former Miss North Carolina USA 1998, will be a guest speaker Tuesday at N.C. A&T State University.

Morris, the daughter of Willie and Glessa Morris of Nashville, will speak with the students from the Department of Family and Consumer Sciences and Fashion Merchandising and…

A Nash County man is facing federal charges for allegedly setting up a fake charity and defrauding his employer.

John H. Durham, U.S. attorney for the District of Connecticut, and Brian C. Turner, special agent in charge of the New Haven Division of the FBI, announced Thursday that Steven Kent…

The Nash County Sheriff’s office will be hosting two community events in the next few days.

The second annual Hot Dogs and Kids event will be held from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. today at 3721 Main St. in Sharpsburg. The event will be visible from the intersection of Hathaway Boulevard and Mill…

A 75-year-old Tarboro man has been charged in the deaths of two Tarboro women who were killed last week in a motor vehicle collision.

According to information released on Monday by the Tarboro Police Department, the fatal collision took place about 10:45 a.m. on Sept. 3. Members of the Tarboro…