The City Council approved a more than $239.35 million municipal operating budget for the fis… Read more
Tarboro’s Main Street Program, one of the first five programs organized in the state in 1980… Read more
The Edgecombe County Board of Commissioners approved the fiscal year 2022-23 budget on Monda… Read more
The Nashville Town Council unanimously voted last week to seek bids to resurface seven of th… Read more
Two hundred cyclists from multiple states and regions of North Carolina biked through portio… Read more
Nash County deputies with help from Rocky Mount police confiscated heroin, opioid pills, fir… Read more
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Members of KLIMA International Martial Arts brought home a lot of shiny new hardware from th… Read more
Mary Kimbrell Livermon, a 17-year-old varsity girls’ tennis player at Rocky Mount Academy, w… Read more
The Rocky Mount 8U all-star softball team had a rough go of it in the Little League District… Read more
The Little League District 4 Baseball Tournament hosted by Rocky Mount Little League got und… Read more
WINTERVILLE – Two lingering questions remained after the second game of the Little League Di… Read more
After splitting a doubleheader with long-time rival, Wake Forest Fungo on Friday night at Mu… Read more
All those useful imbeciles who did 45’s bidding and those who didn’t speak out but knew what… Read more
For President Donald Trump and his allies, Shaye Moss and her mother, Ruby Freeman, were easy targets. They are Black women. That made it oh-so-simple for Trumpists to paint the mother and daughter, who served as Fulton County, Georgia, poll workers, as lawless and fraudulent schemers. Read more
With America facing deepening ideological divisions and an erosion of confidence in their institutions, last thing that anyone needs right now is the revival by one of those institutions of the highly controversial and divisive abortion debate that was settled half a century ago. Read more
Fifteen Republicans in the Senate and 14 in the House joined with congressional Democrats last week to break more than 25 years of inaction on gun safety. That these Republicans, many of whom had ratings of A or A-plus from the National Rifle Association, defied the gun lobby with their support of the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act suggests they saw the political peril in doing nothing about the gun violence gripping the country. Read more
Soaring prices. Social unrest. A resurgent Russia. A military withdrawal followed by the collapse of a pro-American regime in Asia. A feckless and unpopular Democratic president. Read more
A dream so long enjoyed cannot cease without hardship. But the psychological pain of diminishing hope seems to weigh heavily on the minds of North Carolina’s political Right. For the myriad operatives of our state’s organized right wing movement, the rising likelihood of Medicaid expansion is causing something akin to panic. For those who have long taken pride in obstinate rejectionism, an existential crisis is setting in at the prospect of making healthcare more affordable to the needy. Read more
The Tarboro Community Development Corp. is seeking community partners as it strives to be a … Read more
Each year, the Nash Community College Nursing program honors an outstanding Associate Degree… Read more
The IRS has just issued new standard mileage rates as of July 1 for vehicle use for business… Read more
During the second week of June, nine students from Rocky Mount High School’s Air Force Junio… Read more
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Summer is in full swing at Braswell Memorial Library. Read more
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RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina Republican legislative leaders on Tuesday unveiled state budget adjustments for the coming year, proposing to spend or set aside billions in expected extra tax collections to raise worker pay, recruit companies, build more infrastructure and combat inflation.
CAROLINA BEACH, N.C. (AP) — The boat of a North Carolina man missing for seven months has washed ashore in the Azores Islands, officials announced Monday.
PHOENIX (AP) — The skies over a scattering of Western U.S. cities will stay dark for the third consecutive Fourth of July as some major fireworks displays are canceled again this year — some over wildfire concerns amid dry weather and others because of enduring pandemic-related staffing and …
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — Sekou Cooke’s curated exhibit in uptown Charlotte on hip-hop architecture has a lot to offer.
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PARIS (AP) — Over the course of an extraordinary nine-month trial, the lone survivor of the Islamic State extremist team that attacked Paris in 2015 has proclaimed his radicalism, wept, apologized to victims and pleaded with judges to forgive his “mistakes.”
BANGKOK (AP) — Shares skidded in Asia on Wednesday after another broad decline on Wall Street as markets remain gripped by uncertainty over inflation, rising interest rates and the potential for a recession.
MORTARA, Italy (AP) — The worst drought Italy has faced in 70 years is thirsting paddy fields in the river Po valley and jeopardizing the harvest of the premium rice used for risotto.
MADRID (AP) — NATO leaders were sitting down Wednesday to try to turn an urgent sense of purpose triggered by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine into action — and to patch up any cracks in their unity over money and mission.