After roughly 350 Johnson & Johnson vaccines were administered Saturday at a vaccination… Read more
The recent City Council meeting included a frequent speaker who used his time at the podium … Read more
Hardee’s Furniture, a family-owned and locally operated business that has been serving the c… Read more
Nash County Emergency Medical Services personnel earlier this week responded to a report of … Read more
A Wilson man is dead as a result of a one-vehicle wreck on Thursday evening on Interstate 95… Read more
Crime in the city decreased in many categories in March compared to March 2020, with a major… Read more
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- Edgecombe deputies seek leads in recent homicides
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Today marks the first day of the high school football playoffs. Read more
Baseball can be special. Read more
The N.C. Wesleyan baseball team on Wednesday suffered its first loss since March when the Bi… Read more
The N.C. Wesleyan women’s tennis team earned a 9-0 shutout win over USA South Conference foe… Read more
The high school football regular season ended on Friday, with many conference championships … Read more
The Rocky Mount High football team is headed to the playoffs. Read more
The standard operating practice of our government is to suddenly focus negative attention on… Read more
It would be understandable if some wished that we could return to stricter sequestration. Not only because we’d be safer from the risk of COVID, but because, especially at this time last year, several societal problems seemed blessedly diminished — including gun violence. Read more
Somebody once called me fat and lazy. If this person would quit smoking, maybe they would gain some weight. Wake up America, smoking kills you. It should be a thing of the past since the surgeon general told us that in 1964! Read more
Virginia just became the first state in the South to abolish the death penalty, significant because Virginia was the first colony to execute someone in 1608 and second only to Texas in the total number of executions. Read more
Republican Gov. Asa Hutchinson of Arkansas raised ire from conservatives for vetoing legislation passed by the Arkansas state legislature that would have banned “gender-affirming” medical treatment for transgender minors. Read more
It’s a shame to see what we have in this country as president and vice president: Crazy Joe … Read more
N.C. Wesleyan College students in the RN to BSN program will soon be honored with The Daisy … Read more
When Nash Community College Broadcasting and Production Technologies student Isaac Anderson … Read more
N.C. Wesleyan College is one of 153 colleges and universities around the world to be honored… Read more
Our Community Giving Campaign gives every person the opportunity to be part of the United Wa… Read more
Thanks to support from the Walmart Foundation, the Harrison Family YMCA is providing meals a… Read more
In my last column we looked at the initial enrollment into Medicare when you turn age 65. Read more
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RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina's unemployment rate fell sharply in March, state officials announced on Friday, as the number of people holding jobs grew by over 11,000 compared to the month before.
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina state Sen. Jeff Jackson had a sizeable fundraising advantage entering this month over other Democratic opponents in the 2022 U.S. Senate race, while a former Republican congressman running also has flush coffers so far, according to new campaign finance reports.
ASHEVILLE, N.C. (AP) — U.S. Rep. Madison Cawthorn, the recently elected youngest member of Congress, raised more than $1 million for his campaign committee in the first quarter, while a western North Carolina civil rights activist who just last month said she wants to unseat him also reporte…
CHARLOTTE (AP) — Police in North Carolina are investigating the shooting death of a Black transgender woman who was found in a Charlotte hotel room.
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CHICAGO (AP) — Viewers reacted with a mix of outrage and grief to newly released bodycam video that showed a Chicago police officer fatally shoot a 13-year-old last month less than a second after the boy appeared to drop a handgun, turn toward the officer and begin raising his hands.
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — More than a dozen Senate Democrats sent a letter to U.S. President Joe Biden on Friday complaining of a woeful environmental track record by his Brazilian counterpart, Jair Bolsonaro, and urging him to condition any support for Amazon preservation on significant progres…
BROOKLYN CENTER, Minn. (AP) — Elected leaders in the Minneapolis suburb where a police officer fatally shot Daunte Wright want officers to scale back their tactics amid nightly protests, leaving some law enforcement called in to assist asking whether the city still wants their help.
Nearly seven of every 10 voters cast their ballots before Election Day in 2020. Republicans are moving to make it harder for that to happen again, potentially affecting the voting preferences of millions of Americans.
