A 17-year-old girl is charged with first-degree murder of a man found dead on Wednesday morn… Read more17-year-old girl accused of killing man
A Conetoe man was jailed under a $1 million secured bond on illegal-drug-related charges aft… Read moreConetoe man jailed under $1M bond after drug bust
The Edgecombe County Board of Commissioners will hold a public hearing on the 2023-24 fiscal… Read moreEdgecombe board to hold public hearing on budget
Edgecombe County Deputy Karena Velasco was injured in a two-vehicle accident Wednesday in Tarboro. Read moreEdgecombe deputy injured in two-car crash
The City of Rocky Mount has gone to the first stage of a voluntary water conservation effort… Read moreCity asks residents to conserve water
A man was found dead inside a residence on Wednesday morning in Southeast Rocky Mount, and p… Read morePolice investigate after man, 57, found dead
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The Guilford College athletic department has named Brooks Doughtie as the new head coach of … Read moreGuilford taps Doughtie as new women's swimming, triathlon coach
Tarboro native Layton Dupree has been announced as the starting pitcher for the Tarboro Rive… Read morePLAY BALL: Dupree to start in River Bandits season opener
RALEIGH - Since 1945, the North Carolina Wildlife Federation (NCWF) has worked for all wildl… Read moreWildlife federation celebrating conservation
The Southern Nash High School girls soccer team was rewarded for its Big East 2A/3A Conferen… Read moreALL BIG EAST SOCCER: Ladybirds garner two awards, six all-conference selections
Nash Central senior Nora Stroud is an example of the adage, “You get out of something what y… Read moreHard work results in state pole vault crown for NC's Stroud
In a perfect world — or even a really good one — there’s no doubt that the debt ceiling agreement President Biden struck with House Speaker Kevin McCarthy over the weekend would be a frustration and a disappointment. The agreement will inflict all manner of painful cuts to core public structures and services that are both essential to the nation’s wellbeing and eminently affordable for a country as large and wealthy as the United States. Americans have right to expect much, much better. Read moreRob Schofield: Biden makes best of impossible situation again
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A strong, prominent woman in the political arena comes under attack for being too strong, too ambitious, having too big a role in her spouse's campaign.
Sound familiar? Painfully so. Sexist? No question. Read moreSusan Estrich: Sexism still wrong, red or blue
“Summertime… and the living is easy. Fish are jumping and the cotton is high.” Anticipation of summer parties, cookouts and pool parties. Beach trips and lake trips, and our favorite, the Neuse River. My memories are thick with the good times of summer. That is the privilege of growing up White in the South. Read moreLib Campbell: Summertime memories tinged with racism
The French government just announced the implementation of a ban on flights between cities that are accessible by train within two and a half hours. Read moreRachel Marsden: European climate change rules are tyrannical
What if it's not true that the United States is the best — the greatest, the unrivaled, the incomparable — country on the planet? Read moreCynthia Tucker: American lifespans are falling short
We can tell a lot about a presidential candidate from the company he keeps, and Elon Musk’s presence spoke volumes on Twitter hosting Florida Governor Ron DeSantis. Musk owns Twitter, plus he is a billionaire many times over. A boost from a rich guy who owns a media platform gives DeSantis a leg up in the Republican primary contests. Read moreDouglas Cohn and Eleanor Clift: Political climate requires remembering the U.S.S. Maine
Sha’Kiyia Highsmith was named the 2023 recipient of the Annie and Sallie Ann Wheeler Memoria… Read moreNorth Edgecombe student awarded scholarship
The 2023 annual Memorial Day gathering at the Veterans Memorial at Jack Laughery Park includ… Read moreLocal veterans display replica of submarine
Four international students at N.C. Wesleyan University have teamed up to develop a course a… Read moreN.C. Wesleyan students target mental health
No Rocky Mount business wants to lose sales because of an internet outage. Read moreJeremy Taylor: Failover internet should be key component of business strategy
Earlier this year, Crystal Gray was halfway through the surgical technology program at Edgec… Read moreECC student to serve internship at Mayo Clinic
Cynthia “Cindy” Howell Worthy recently was presented with the Medallion Award for her outsta… Read moreLocal woman receives top volunteer award
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Toyota will invest another $2.1 billion in an electric and hybrid vehicle battery factory that’s under construction near Greensboro, North Carolina. The plant will supply batteries to Toyota’s huge complex in Georgetown, Kentucky, which will build Toyota’s first U.S.-made electric vehicle, a new SUV with three rows of seats. The plans announced Wednesday won’t immediately create any more jobs at either factory. Toyota plans to have 2,100 employees at the battery factory. The investment will prepare infrastructure to expand for growth. Production is to start in 2025. It brings the total investment to $5.9 billion. The huge Kentucky complex now employs 9,500 people. The company says jobs will shift to the new electric vehicle when production starts in 2025.
The North Carolina General Assembly’s chief advocate for legalizing medical marijuana in the state has revealed how he smoked pot over 20 years ago to withstand intense chemotherapy during his fight with cancer. Sen. Bill Rabon of Brunswick County has previously described himself as a colon cancer survivor. But he had been reticent on details like whether he used marijuana until pitching his legislation on Tuesday to the House Health Committee. The measure passed the Senate three months ago. Rabon recalled how a physician told him to obtain marijuana when he sought a more aggressive form of treatment. Medical pot opponents say marijuana may cause harm to patients.
As the Supreme Court decides the fate of affirmative action, most people in the U.S. say the court should allow consideration of race as part of the admissions process. Yet few believe students’ race should play a significant role in those decisions. A poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research finds 63% say the Supreme Court should not stop colleges from considering race or ethnicity in their admission systems. The poll shows little divide along political or racial lines. People are more likely to say grades and standardized test scores should be significant factors. Lawsuits are challenging admissions systems at Harvard and the University of North Carolina.
Two North Carolina state House Republicans have lost their caucus leadership positions following recent comments directed at Democratic colleagues questioning their religion and educational attainment. A top House GOP leader announced on Thursday that Reps. Keith Kidwell and Jeff McNeely, who are both white, are no longer deputy majority whips after their resignations were sought by other GOP leaders. The Democrats who were the subject of the comments are both Black. McNeely took criticism during debate last week on legislation to expand the state’s private-school voucher system when he asked a question about a colleague's time at Harvard University. A television station reported that Kidwell disparaged a colleague's religion as she debated a bill restricting abortion.
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A woman taking a Memorial Day weekend stroll on a California beach found something unusual sticking out of the sand: a tooth from an ancient mastodon. Jennifer Schuh found the foot-long tooth on Friday on Rio Del Mar State Beach on California’s central coast. But Schuh wasn’t sure what she had found so she posted photos on Facebook, hoping someone could identify the strange object. Wayne Thompson of the Santa Cruz Museum of Natural History determined it was a mastodon tooth and went to the beach but couldn't find it. On Tuesday, Jim Smith of Aptos heard about the missing tooth. He told the museum he had picked it up while jogging and has donated it to the museum.
A federal bankruptcy judge has ordered Diamond Sports to pay the full value of its media contracts to the Arizona Diamondbacks, Cleveland Guardians, Minnesota Twins and Texas Rangers.
The Associated Press has obtained more than 4,000 pages of documents related to Jeffrey Epstein’s jail suicide from the federal Bureau of Prisons under the Freedom of Information Act. They include a detailed psychological reconstruction of the events leading to Epstein’s suicide, as well as his health history, internal agency reports, emails and memos and other records. The documents obtained Thursday provide the most complete accounting of Epstein’s detention and death, and its chaotic aftermath. The records help to dispel the many conspiracy theories surrounding Epstein’s suicide, underscoring how fundamental failings at the Bureau of Prisons — including severe staffing shortages and employees cutting corners — contributed to Epstein’s death.
A federal judge has ruled that a lawsuit brought by young Oregon-based climate activists can proceed to trial. The Thursday ruling comes years after the plaintiffs first filed their lawsuit attempting to hold the nation’s leadership accountable for its role in climate change. U.S. District Court Judge Ann Aiken has ruled that the plaintiffs can amend their case and go to trial. The long-awaited ruling puts the young plaintiffs back on track for a trial. U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts canceled a previous trial days before it was to begin in 2018.
