Ricky Rapoza of Rocky Mount, a drummer and singer of Top 40, beach music and gospel songs, r… Read more
Bulluck Furniture will host Vietri Inc. founder and CEO Susan Gravely during a special event… Read more
TARBORO — Edgecombe County Sheriff Clee Atkinson said his deputies had no time to react Thur… Read more
A special called work session of the City Council is set for 4 p.m. Monday for the council t… Read more
A Rocky Mount native is hiking 600 miles across North Carolina to raise awareness about a ne… Read more
After several years of upheaval in its finance department, the Town of Nashville is getting … Read more
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Despite Brian Foster no longer coaching the Southern Nash football team after retiring at th… Read more
Week 9 of the prep football season has arrived. Read more
The Tarboro River Bandits, winners of league championships in each of their first two years,… Read more
The Southern Nash boys’ soccer team is putting together an impressive season. Read more
The Rocky Mount High, Northern Nash and Southern Nash football teams are each 3-0 in Big Eas… Read more
The Southern Nash football team has made its way through the Class 2-A portion of the Big Ea… Read more
I’ve been spending a lot of time recently conversing with right-leaning leaders, policy experts, donors and activists in order to assess the health and trajectory of American conservatism at this moment. Read more
Chief spin fabricator Jen Psaki calls Joe Biden’s many lies “misspeaking” in her dismissive … Read more
It has become common in some circles to call the Jan. 6 Capitol riot an “armed insurrection.” That leads to a few questions: How many rioters were armed? And what weapons did they have? What were the arms in the “armed insurrection”? Read more
Closing down school buildings for many months last year — and offering poorly planned and executed virtual schooling as an inadequate substitute — proved to be a disaster for North Carolina children, families, and the education system itself. Read more
Elected officials lead us simply because of their positions — we have chosen them to do so. They lead by policy-making, they lead with the tone they set and the issues they choose to pursue. Read more
Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson saying controversial things could be a reality show. There’s easily enough content for multiple seasons. After all, his ascendency in North Carolina politics emerged from his confrontational speaking style. His mouth is what makes him so popular and disliked at the same time. Robinson even dares to weigh in on specific social issues where only one opinion is allowed now in the public square. Read more
Valeria “Eddye” Myers doesn’t answer phone calls if she isn’t certain who is on the other en… Read more
Keep America Beautiful of Nash and Edgecombe Counties, the City of Rocky Mount environmental… Read more
N.C. Wesleyan College recently welcomed Jordan Stone as multimedia coordinator. Read more
Edgecombe County Public Schools was accepted into the League of Innovative Schools, a nation… Read more
Edgecombe Community College’s Division of College and Career Readiness ranked number one in … Read more
Nash Community College, the Town of Nashville and Nashville Elementary School celebrated Arb… Read more
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CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — Four years ago, Chrishonda Benson’s daughter told her that she didn’t like her brown skin “because it wasn’t pretty.”
TERRE HAUTE, Ind. (AP) — The 1963 Ford Galaxy looked pristine, a down-to-the-last-detail replica of Sheriff Andy Taylor’s squad car on the “Andy Griffith Show.”
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Former state Supreme Court Chief Justice Cheri Beasley was the top third-quarter fundraiser for candidates in next year’s U.S. Senate race in North Carolina, according to documents filed at Friday’s financial reporting deadline.
A roundup of some of the most popular but completely untrue stories and visuals of the week. None of these are legit, even though they were shared widely on social media. The Associated Press checked them out. Here are the facts:
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WEST COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Jill Biden on Sunday returned to the South Carolina Baptist church where she says she began to repair her relationship with God following her son's death from brain cancer six years ago.
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — A notorious Haitian gang known for brazen kidnappings and killings was accused by police Sunday of abducting 17 missionaries from a U.S.-based organization. Five children were believed to be among those kidnapped, including a 2-year-old.
ORANGE, Calif. (AP) — Bill Clinton arrived Sunday at his home in New York to continue recovering from an infection that left him in treatment for six days at a Southern California hospital, officials said.
LONDON (AP) — Celebrities joined Prince William in London on Sunday for the inaugural awards ceremony of his Earthshot Prize, an ambitious environmental program that aims to find new ideas and technologies around the world to tackle climate change and Earth's most pressing challenges.
