The clues are few: bones, tattered clothes and not much else.

Many unidentified body cases are like that, leaving investigators little to go on, especially as the years pass.

Known only as No. 2234 — named after the National Missing and Unidentified Persons System file number — is the…

A former Middlesex town employee will face a judge Monday on two probation violation charges.

Shelly Woodruff, 32, of Middlesex, is scheduled to appear Monday in N.C. District Court on felony probation violation charges. The charges are in connection to Woodruff’s arrest for embezzlement…

Remember the rules of the road.

That is the word from local and state law enforcement officers now that schools are out for summer and more people are taking to the roads.

Rocky Mount police Cpl. Mike Lewis said the department’s traffic unit responds to dozens of traffic calls every day in…

Edgecombe County Public Schools is working to make sure that no children in Edgecombe County go hungry when school is closed this summer.

More than 5,500 children a day in Edgecombe County receive free meals during the school year, but many of these children do not get enough to eat when school is…

State Employees’ Credit Union members via the SECU Foundation recently presented $10,000 four-year college scholarships to three local graduating high school seniors for study at one of the 16 campuses in the University of North Carolina System.

The scholarships were presented by SECU…

Two Edgecombe Community College Associate Degree Nursing students recently received the DAISY Foundation’s DAISY in Training Award during the ADN pinning ceremony.

Presented for the first time this year, this special honor was awarded to Davina Jones and Meghan Harvey. In addition to being…

Police are investigating a copper theft that happened Monday at a soon-to-be N.C. Wesleyan College dorm.

Police responded to a report of a commercial burglary early at 1:43 a.m. on the 200 block of North Church Street. They said the building is the location of a former hotel, adding it was recently…

A trio of vehicles were broken into at a local business early this week, with items worth more than $900 taken.

Police responded to a report of a vehicle break-in at 1:40 a.m. Monday at a business on the 1800 block of Stone Rose Drive. When they arrived, they found two vehicles — a 1987…

Two more people have been arrested in connection to a homicide Saturday morning in Rocky Mount.

Rocky Mount police arrested Daquan Foster, 19, of Rocky Mount and Demetrius Archibald, 32, of Rocky Mount Tuesday in connection to the shooting. Foster was charged with one count of first-degree murder…