A 29-year-old man is charged with attempted first-degree murder in connection with a man hav… Read more
“It’s cold outside. Put your coat on!” How many children have grumbled at the sound of those words? Read more
The Impact Center at Word Tabernacle Church will sponsor a ribbon-cutting ceremony and open … Read more
The Rocky Mount Area Chamber of Commerce’s annual economic summit Thursday morning included … Read more
A man is in critical condition at the local hospital after having been found shot Thursday m… Read more
After experiencing a slight uptick in the number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Nash and Edg… Read more
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- Local drug dealer sentenced to federal prison
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Tarboro High School’s football team has won three state championships in the past four seaso… Read more
The Rocky Mount boys used a big scoring edge in jumps to claim first place in the Franklinto… Read more
The N.C. Wesleyan College women’s basketball team showed their muscle in defeating East Divi… Read more
Cold shooting, turnovers and no answer for Deontay Joseph proved to be the downfall of the N… Read more
The Rocky Mount Academy varsity basketball teams emerged with a sweep in nonconference play … Read more
Major Leaguer Brian Goodwin is giving back to the community that raised him. Read more
When then-Congressman Jim Martin ran for governor in 1984, he sought to combine Reagan-era thinking about free markets with the practical approach to government he’d learned two decades earlier as commission chairman of North Carolina’s most-populous county, Mecklenburg. Read more
Consider this: President Trump is the one that initiated the process to having a vaccine tod… Read more
The Supreme Court is deliberating on Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization. Read more
The Supreme Court took up its most important abortion case in years on Wednesday, and the question will be how the Justices maneuver their way out of a thicket they should never have entered 50 years ago. Will the Court, in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, settle for an incremental ruling that upholds a Mississippi ban on abortion after 15 weeks, or will it overturn its misguided precedents and return the regulation of abortion to legislatures in the states? Read more
James W. Frick had a head full of Carolina common sense. Born in New Bern, in 1924, he was raised in a Catholic orphanage and graduated from Notre Dame. He became a nationally recognized fundraiser for his Alma Mater, but he is perhaps best known for his down-to-earth wisdom. Read more
The conviction of Ahmad Arbery’s killers gave us new hope, but we still have a long road to … Read more
The Nash County Public Schools social worker team recently organized and sponsored a distric… Read more
Nolan Bailey, 16, said he chose to enroll in the Career and College Promise program at Nash … Read more
The Turning Point Workforce Development Board has approved local implementation of a health … Read more
N.C. Wesleyan College recently welcomed Joselyn Blount to its Office of Adult Studies team. Read more
The Downtown Enfield Restoration and Preservation Association is sponsoring the eighth Chris… Read more
The pandemic changed the holiday retail environment last year with many Rocky Mount business… Read more
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PILOT MOUNTAIN, N.C. (AP) — A wildfire at Pilot Mountain State Park has burned 1,100 acres (445 hectares) and was about 80% contained Thursday, according to the North Carolina Forest Service.
Federal prosecutors said Thursday that a North Carolina woman deserves a prison sentence for bringing her 14-year-old child into the U.S. Capitol during the Jan. 6 riot.
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper vetoed on Thursday legislation that would bar officials from counting mail-in absentee ballots received after Election Day, even if their envelopes were postmarked on or before that date.
The Marine Corps demolition specialist was worried — about America, and about the civil war he feared would follow the presidential election.
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The arrival of the omicron variant of the coronavirus in the U.S. has health officials in some communities reviving contact tracing operations in an attempt to slow and better understand its spread as scientists study how contagious it is and whether it can thwart vaccines.
MOSCOW (AP) — The Kremlin said Friday that President Vladimir Putin will seek binding guarantees precluding NATO’s expansion to Ukraine during a planned call with U.S. President Joe Biden, while a U.S. intelligence report and the Ukrainian defense minister warned of a possible Russian invasi…
HONOLULU (AP) — Amid a continuing crisis over fuel contaminating the Navy’s tap water at Pearl Harbor, Honolulu’s water utility said Friday it shut off one of its wells so it doesn’t taint its own supply with petroleum from an underground aquifer it shares with the military.
DENVER (AP) — A judge ruled Friday that a man charged with killing 10 people at a Colorado supermarket earlier this year is mentally incompetent to stand trial and ordered him to be treated at the state mental hospital to see if he can be made well enough to face prosecution.
