A Rocky Mount man described by federal court records as a gang member was arrested Monday on… Read more
A fire broke out at a storage building in the back yard of a residential property in Southea… Read more
The appearance of the interchanges along U.S. 64 in the city as well as the appearance of do… Read more
Rocky Mount police have arrested a former Rocky Mount Preparatory School employee in connect… Read more
New local COVID cases decreased dramatically over the past week, Twin Counties health direct… Read more
Crime in Rocky Mount was down last month compared to September 2020. Read more
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Week 10 of the high school football season is here and several conference titles have yet to… Read more
McKinley Battle thought she had an idea of how varsity sports would go before she entered hi… Read more
Scoring points seemed to come with ease for the Rocky Mount Academy football team through th… Read more
Northern Nash’s Chloe Harrington is once again at the top of the Big East Conference. Read more
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
Not since 1942, when women flooded into the workplace in support of the war effort, have we seen a worker revolution such as we are experiencing now. A just-released Duke Fuqua School of Business global survey of chief financial officers reports job openings are at a 20-year high. Total employment today is 5 million below the pre-pandemic peak. How can this be explained in a growing economy? Read more
Despite being a politician all his life, and never having worked in a blue-collar job, President Joe Biden declared, “I’m a union man,” when he announced his presidential campaign at a Teamsters union hall in Pittsburgh in April 2019. Read more
The COVID-19 pandemic has brought forth shows of bravery and dedication from nurses, doctors and other health-care workers. In a less dramatic way, other essential workers, from supermarket clerks to bus drivers, have stepped up to serve the public at risk to themselves. Read more
There are times when decades pass with seemingly little happening and there are times during… Read more
Confession: I used to be a Republican. I briefly became one years ago while living amongst the ultrawoke on Manhattan’s Upper West Side. Their authoritarian diktats drove me crazy. And their narrow definition of economic interests as the rich versus the poor — with the middle class almost invisible — underscored their political naivete. Read more
Veteran Triangle-area Congressman David Price called it a career this week and revealed that he will not seek re-election in 2022. Read more
Janice Bryant Howroyd, founder and chief executive officer of the ActOne Group, has made a g… Read more
Nash Community College has been awarded a $60,000 grant from the Burroughs Wellcome Fund. Read more
Greg McLeod, president of Edgecombe Community College, is among the North Carolina community… Read more
Sisters With A Vision is a ministry group of 24 area women from four different churches that… Read more
October is National Retirement Security Month. Read more
Valeria “Eddye” Myers doesn’t answer phone calls if she isn’t certain who is on the other en… Read more
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RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Republican legislative leaders sent another negotiating offer to Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper on Tuesday as top government officials still attempt to enact a long-overdue two year budget.
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — A federal judge has ruled that North Carolina’s flagship public university can continue to consider race as a factor in its undergraduate admissions, rebuffing a conservative group's argument that affirmative action disadvantages white and Asian students.
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Two longtime Democratic congressmen with a combined six decades of experience announced Monday that they plan to retire at the end of their terms, another worrying sign for the party's uphill climb to keep control of the House in next year's midterm elections.
Some college towns plan to challenge the results of the 2020 census, claiming they were shortchanged because the pandemic forced students to leave campuses and complaining that the undercount could cost them federal money and prestige.
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Shares were mostly higher in Europe on Friday after a mixed session in Asia.
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iranian hard-liners, now back at the helm of the country, may regularly rail against the poisoning of Islamic society by Western culture, but in Tehran, Iranians are flocking to the contemporary art museum to marvel at American pop artist Andy Warhol’s iconic soup cans.
SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — Authorities are investigating after confirming that a prop firearm discharged by actor Alec Baldwin, while producing and starring in a Western movie, killed the cinematographer and wounded the director.
NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — It seems a strange place to pitch a tent.
