The Leapfrog Group, a national nonprofit organization that collects and reports hospital per… Read moreNash UNC Health Care receives high performance score
Teach For America North Carolina r3ecently announced the launch of the Ignite Fellowship, a … Read moreTeach for America launches tutoring program in Edgecombe County
A New York City man is out on a reduced bond after recently being arrested on illegal drug-r… Read moreNew York man busted on drug trafficking charges on I-95
After reporting 18 new cases of COVID-19 during the previous week, the Nash County Departmen… Read moreNew cases of COVID-19 rising again across area
One of the topics covered in Monday’s joint meeting of the Nash County Board of Commissioner… Read moreNash school, county boards discuss demerger process
A website is being created so Rocky Mount and Twin Counties residents can go online and view… Read moreFuture website to show local traffic, road information
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Northern Nash and Tarboro are one win away from playing for state championships. Read moreOne win away: Knights, Vikings reach East Regional finals
In the beginning, more than 38 years ago, there was Geoff, Harry, Martinsville, a church ret… Read moreThe origins of Hendrick’s first Cup Series win
PINETOPS — The season opener for the SouthWest Edgecombe varsity boys basketball team came d… Read moreDown to the wire: SWE boys hold off Hawks in opener
A slow start in the first quarter (trailing 29-6) doomed North Carolina Wesleyan University’… Read moreSlow start dooms Wesleyan women at N.C. Central
PINETOPS — A pair of big offensive runs in the second half led to a victory by the SouthWest… Read moreLady Cougars use offensive bursts to thwart North Lenoir
Five high school wrestling teams representing Nash and Edgecombe counties competed in the I-… Read moreLocal wrestlers compete in I-95 Duals
Maybe the change was an inevitable byproduct of our charged and contentious era. Read moreRob Schofield: N.C. Supreme Court must respect precedent
Is 80 too old to be president? That question hovers over American politics because Joe Biden reached that milestone last weekend, the first octogenarian in our history to occupy the White House. Read moreSteven Roberts: Where have you gone, JFK?
Thom Tillis has always seemed unsure of who he wants to be. Read moreEditorial: Moderate Tillis about to be tested
Is it really news that Karen Bass will become the first female mayor of Los Angeles? In an era where women have already run Chicago, Phoenix, Fort Worth, Charlotte, San Francisco, Seattle, Washington, D.C., and Boston, the gender of the new Los Angeles mayor should not have dominated the headlines, as it did in numerous media. Read moreFroma Harrop: Please drop the 'first-elected' whatever
As so often happens, the national political press was virtually unanimous in getting the 2022 midterm elections all wrong. Indeed, it’s hard to recall a major political event since the Clinton administration, when I first paid serious attention, that the Washington news media has gotten largely right. Read moreGene Lyons: The Talking Heads get it wrong again
In the lead-up to the Jan. 6 riot, John Eastman gave President Trump legal advice that was terrible, and now he’s trying to argue it was merely awful. In a letter to these pages on Nov. 14, Eastman, a former law professor of some distinction, denies he argued that Vice President Mike Pence “could unilaterally reject electoral votes and simply declare President Trump re-elected.” Read moreEastman arguing advice wasn't as awful as it was
Police Sgt. Laurie Middleswarth does more than serve and protect Rocky Mount. Read moreCity police sergeant excels in weightlifting competitions
The holiday season often makes us think of particular things, like family, friends, good foo… Read moreHolidays a good time for giving to local charities
The Taylor and Crocker families recently provided funds to refurnish the Taylor-Crocker Hono… Read moreDonation boosts N.C. Wesleyan Honors Program
Edgecombe Community College recently announced its student ambassadors for 2022-23. Read moreECC announces new student ambassadors
As mobile workforces grow, your employees need to be able to access information anywhere, wh… Read moreWhat businesses should know about mobile device management
The former Eastman High School Class of 1970 celebrated its 52nd year class reunion on Sept … Read moreEastman High Class of 1970 celebrates 52nd reunion
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GREENSBORO, N.C. (AP) — For more than 15 years, Scrappy has pawed his way into the hearts of firefighters and visitors.
A helicopter pilot and a meteorologist who worked for a North Carolina television station died following the crash of the station’s helicopter next to an interstate highway in the Charlotte area. WBTV broadcasters who had been reporting on the crash identified their colleagues on air Tuesday about three hours following the deadly incident. The men were identified as meteorologist Jason Myers and pilot Chip Tayag. The crash occurred along Interstate 77. Johnny Jennings, chief of the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department, said no vehicles were involved in the incident. The chief said preliminary witness accounts indicate that the pilot made some “diversionary” maneuvers and “probably saved some lives."
It's holiday time at the White House, and President Joe Biden and his wife, Jill, are plunging into the season. Biden participated in the annual pardoning of a Thanksgiving turkey on Monday. The first lady accepted delivery of the official White House Christmas tree. And both Bidens visited North Carolina later in the day to share an early Thanksgiving meal with members of the military and their families at Marine Corps Air Station, Cherry Point. The burst of holiday activity follows the president's granddaughter's White House wedding and his 80th birthday over the weekend.
The man who was driving a truck that fatally hit a girl in a North Carolina holiday parade has been released on bond. The News & Record reports that Wake County District Attorney Lorrin Freeman confirms that 20-year-old Landen Glass was released on a $4,000 bond. Glass is scheduled to return to court Jan. 26. Raleigh police say the driver of a white pickup truck towing a float in the Raleigh Christmas parade on Saturday morning lost control and hit the girl. She died from her injuries. Glass was charged with misdemeanor death by motor vehicle, careless and reckless driving and other offenses. A family member told WRAL-TV that Glass would not be making a statement.
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Officials say shelling by Russian forces has hit several areas in eastern and southern Ukraine overnight as utility crews continue a scramble to restore power, water and heating from widespread strikes in recent weeks. With persistent snowfall blanketing the capital, Kyiv, Sunday, analysts predicted that wintry weather could have an increasing impact on the direction of the conflict that has been raging since Russian forces invaded Ukraine more than nine months ago. State power grid Ukrenergo said electricity producers are now supplying about 80% of demand. That’s an improvement from Saturday’s 75%, the company says.
Rescuers are digging through mud for a second day in the search for people missing following an enormous landslide on the Italian resort island of Ischia. One body was recovered on Saturday and about a dozen people, including children, are reported missing in the port town of Casamicciola. They were feared buried under mud and debris that firefighters said was six meters (20 feet) deep in some places. Small bulldozers were being used to clear debris, and Italian media said digging was continuing by hand in some places and that teams of divers had been brought in. The massive landslide before dawn on Saturday was triggered by exceptional rainfall
Protests against China’s strict “zero-COVID” policies resurfaced in Shanghai and Beijing on Sunday afternoon, continuing a round of demonstrations that have spread across the country since a deady apartment fire in the northwestern city of Urumqi. Crowds stood and filmed as police started shoving at people who had gathered in the street in Shanghai and shouted, “We don’t want PCR tests, we want freedom!” Since Friday people have held protests across China, where street demonstrations are extremely rare. But anger and frustration have flared over the deaths from a fire in an apartment building in Urumqi that the public believes was caused by excessive lockdown measures that delayed rescue. A list on social media showed that there were demonstrations in 50 universities.
The U.S. soccer federation is displaying Iran’s national flag on social media without the emblem of the Islamic Republic. The federation described the move as a show of support for protesters in Iran ahead of the two nations’ World Cup match Tuesday. The federation says in a statement Sunday that it decided to forego the official flag on social media accounts to show “support for the women in Iran fighting for basic human rights.” The move comes as nationwide protests challenging Tehran’s theocratic government continue in Iran.
