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…

The United Way Tar River Region is accepting applications for federal food and shelter funding from nonprofit agencies in the Twin Counties.

The local United Way agency recently was awarded $94,335 to supplement emergency food and shelter programs in Nash and Edgecombe counties. The…

The Rocky Mount City Council is set to vote on its 2017-18 budget among other topics Monday afternoon.

The proposed 2017-18 budget establishes appropriations for the next fiscal year beginning July 1 and sets the city's ad valorem tax rate at 66 cents per $100 of taxable assessed value. The council…

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…

A Tarboro man facing charges of indecent liberties with a minor reportedly committed suicide in Edgecombe County jail over the weekend.

Thomas Arleon Kinsley, 61, of Tarboro hanged himself, according to the State Bureau of Investigation. Edgecombe County Sheriff Clee Atkinson did not return phone…