City Council Ward 7 candidate Jabaris “J. Kelly” Walker has the endorsement of former candid… Read more
With money from the recent sale of a shell building at the Middlesex Corporate Centre and a … Read more
There’s a new grocery store in Tarboro. Read more
Law enforcement officials are urging holiday travelers to put safety first on the roadways o… Read more
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SouthWest Edgecombe High School honored its student-athletes with a special banquet earlier … Read more
No. 1 seed Team Whitehead defeated No. 2 seed Team Lynch 28-6 to win the 10-12-year-old divi… Read more
“It was not meant to be.” Read more
I don’t watch many shows. I watch movies, I watch games and I play games, but unless it’s Th… Read more
Rocky Mount High School honored its student-athletes at its annual athletic awards program e… Read more
SouthWest Edgecombe High School inducted four new members to its Hall of Fame last week. Read more
You would think, after the House Bill 2 backlash that occurred in 2016, North Carolina Republicans might think twice before pouring gasoline on the flames of divisive social issues. Read more
On several beach trips, I drenched my thoughts in the sceneries. We can bring that illusion … Read more
I am so pleased and proud that the first annual edition of the “State of Black America” (Encounter Books), published by my organization, CURE, Center for Urban Renewal and Education, in conjunction with the Claremont Institute has just been released. Read more
The first day of class the law professor strode into the room. The first thing he did was ask for the name of a student sitting in the front row. Read more
Once again you have citizens losing their lives needlessly because some right-wing nut job p… Read more
On May 24, Fox News blasted a headline, “New York City subway crime up 58% so far compared to 2021; Hunt for gunman in unprovoked shooting intensifies.” Read more
Nash Community College recognized 12 students during a pinning ceremony on May 11 in Brown A… Read more
Edgecombe County Public Schools Superintendent Valerie Bridges told Edgecombe Community Coll… Read more
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N.C. Wesleyan University’s new Corporate Adoption Program (CAP) recently wrapped up its inau… Read more
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RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — A decade ago, Pat McCrory was king in North Carolina's Republican Party. The former Charlotte mayor became the first GOP governor in two decades when he won in 2012 by 11 percentage points.
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina Attorney General Josh Stein left a Raleigh hospital on Wednesday after being treated earlier this week for what he called a “minor stroke.”
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina government's most powerful Republican elected official threw his weight fully behind Medicaid expansion Wednesday, raising the stakes for an issue lingering in state politics for a decade that could result in hundreds of thousands of low-income adults gett…
The families of four people — including three teens — who died in a February plane crash off the North Carolina coast are suing the companies that owned the plane and employed the pilot, who also died. The suit claims the pilot failed to properly fly the single-engine plane in weather condit…
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UVALDE, Texas (AP) — A young survivor of the massacre at a Texas elementary school said she covered herself with a friend's blood and pretended to be dead while she waited for help to arrive.
UVALDE, Texas (AP) — The gunman who slaughtered 19 children and two teachers inside a Texas elementary school was in the building for more than an hour before he was killed by law enforcement officers, authorities say.
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — With racial tensions still simmering over the killing of George Floyd, Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards and his top lawyers gathered in a state police conference room in October 2020 to prepare for the fallout from a troubling case closer to home: troopers’ deadly arre…
An inflation gauge closely tracked by the Federal Reserve rose 6.3% in April from a year earlier, the first slowdown since November 2020 and a sign that high prices may finally be moderating, at least for now.
