The Rocky Mount City Council is set to discuss the city’s upcoming budget among other topics Monday afternoon.

The council is set to continue a public hearing on the proposed budget for fiscal year 2018-19.

The council trimmed $2.5 million out of the $210 million budget.

Cuts included a third…

The Rocky Mount Police Department is set to hold its 18th annual Junior Police Academy next week.

Police will provide practical teaching and training sessions during the academy. Two sessions are scheduled, one for Monday through Friday and one for July 23-27. Each session’s day will run from…

NASHVILLE — Eighteen suspects will face federal prosecution after being arrested on outstanding federal charges in a coordinated warrant enforcement operation.

Robert J. Higdon Jr., U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of North Carolina, returned to the Twin Counties on Thursday and held a…

Jaqueline Morado recently served as a page in the state Senate.

Morado is the daughter of Gerardo and Diana Morado of Elm City and attends Saint Thomas More Academy.

She was sponsored by state Sen. Toby Fitch, D-Wilson, and appointed by Senate President Pro Tem Phil Berger, R-Rockingham.

High…

A total of 43 Tar River Academy seniors turned their tassels during the June 8 graduation ceremony that was held in the school auditorium.

The graduates have exciting futures to look forward to as 18 will attend two-year colleges, four will enlist in the military, 20 will enter the workforce and…

Gov. Roy Cooper recently appointed Sheila P. Martin, executive director of the Dunn Center for the Performing Arts, to serve as a member of the License to Give Trust Fund Commission.

Established in 2004, the 15-member License to Give Trust Fund Commission awards grants to nonprofit groups to be…

Authorities are still figuring out who to charge in a Wednesday evening shootout.

Two men were arguing on Otis Lane when they both drew handguns and shot each other.

Naquin Robinson, 20, was transported to Nash UNC Health Care with non-life-threatening injuries.

Raheem Taylor, 21, was transported…

A Rocky Mount man is recovering from a knife attack early Thursday and police are looking for the assailant, according to authorities.

Donnie Debro, 44, has outstanding warrants for assault with a deadly weapon inflicting serious injury.

Robert Lee Battle, 35, was treated at a local hospital then…

TARBORO — A safecracking heist at a local Pizza Inn restaurant turned out to be an inside job.

Shane Preston Allen Keel, Maquez Edge and Jaquez Edge, all 18 and from Tarboro, were charged by the Tarboro Police Department with felony counts of breaking and entering, larceny and safecracking.…