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BAILEY — Three runs proved to be enough to end the softball season for Southern Nash Thursda… Read more
Tarboro and Rocky Mount Academy are still alive in the state baseball playoffs. Read more
The City of Rocky Mount P&R Youth Track Team, the Rocky Mount Rockets, participated in t… Read more
Of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these: ‘It might have been!’ — from Maude… Read more
BAILEY — They just had an off night. Read more
The Rocky Mount area is becoming a hotbed of soccer. Read more
The planet and its national and international institutions are not even close to facing the realities that confront us. Instead, we live in a fantasy la-la land, or what Greta Thunberg might call blah-blah land. No one is more insanely deluded than Vladimir Putin, who launched a horrific and unnecessary war in which he could unilaterally decide to use nuclear weapons at any moment, based in grievance and an obsolete nostalgia for empire. Read more
Think about it this way: If Justice Samuel Alito gets his way and the Trumpist Supreme Court majority voids Roe v. Wade, many states will be forced to begin criminal investigations of women who suffer miscarriages. Don’t give me that crying act, sweetheart. In this state, abortion is murder. Read more
One of the mysteries of the Hunter Biden matter is how the president’s son, with no obvious sources of income, manages to maintain a grand lifestyle. For the last year or so, he has been living in a $20,000-a-month rental house in Malibu, California. Read more
The Telegram continues to publish multiple letters — often from the same few writers — throw… Read more
The Supreme Court’s upcoming decision to reverse Roe v. Wade (an early draft of which was leaked May 2) doesn’t ban abortions; it leaves the issue to the states. As a result, it will put another large brick in the growing wall separating Blue and Red America. Read more
New York Mayor Eric Adams is a rising power in the Democratic Party. A former police captain, Adams is the answer to the prayers of Democrats who have almost given up praying for a politics they can sell nationally. Read more
Making financial decisions takes time, attention and energy at any age. In the case of elder… Read more
“Have you played Wordle yet?” is a question I hear daily at my house. My husband is talking … Read more
The Rocky Mount Debu-ette Club would like to announce the 2022 seniors. Read more
Jammie Wacenske of Wendell has been named Nash Community College’s 2022 Outstanding Alumna. Read more
N.C. Wesleyan University held its Spring Commencement on May 7 at the Rocky Mount Event Cent… Read more
Thanks to the generous contributions from individuals, businesses, foundations and community… Read more
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State AP Stories
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Former President Donald Trump's winning streak in U.S. Senate primaries is on the line Tuesday as voters in five states cast their ballots in midterm elections.
WILSON, N.C. (AP) — Wilson County’s only commercial hemp grower says if medical marijuana becomes legal in North Carolina, he will be a good candidate to grow it with the knowledge he has gained.
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — This year's retirements of two veteran Democratic congressmen in North Carolina have opened the way for robust primaries within their party as Democrats, Republicans or both hold contests Tuesday in all but one of the state's 14 U.S. House districts.
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Four pairs of Republican incumbents face off Tuesday in the North Carolina General Assembly primaries, their confrontations the result of redistricting in rural areas that have lagged other parts of the state in population growth.
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STOCKHOLM (AP) — Sweden on Monday decided to join neighboring Finland in seeking NATO membership, ending more than two centuries of military nonalignment in a historic shift prompted by Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
PARIS (AP) — Centrist politician Elisabeth Borne was appointed France’s new prime minister on Monday, becoming only the second woman in history to hold the post.
BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — The white gunman accused of massacring 10 Black people in a racist rampage at a Buffalo supermarket planned to keep on killing if he had escaped the scene, the police commissioner said Monday, as the possibility of federal hate crime or domestic terror charges loomed.
NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks edged higher on Wall Street Monday, but trading remains choppy as the market comes off six straight weeks of declines.