City Councilman Andre Knight was irked after council members voted 3-2 against an amendment … Read more
Narcotics investigators with the Tarboro Police Department arrested a 50-year-old man on dru… Read more
A 32-year-old Tarboro man is jailed under a $50,000 bond in the Edgecombe County Detention C… Read more
Plenty of local events are scheduled over the holiday weekend to celebrate the nation’s birth. Read more
A mulch business south of the Eastern Avenue corridor between Rocky Mount and Nashville was … Read more
A convenience store in Southeast Rocky Mount was held up Tuesday morning and police are aski… 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
Wall Street and our ruling oligarchy said the solution to price inflation is to reduce wages… Read more
Donald Trump’s slogan for 2016 and 2020 — Make America Great Again — has changed as he weighs running again in 2024. Read more
Last week’s U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling that Americans no longer have a constitutional right to control their own reproduction is a disaster of monumental proportions. Never before in U.S. history has the nation’s high court taken away such a well-established and long exercised fundamental right. Read more
“There are more tears shed over answered prayers than unanswered prayers,” St. Teresa of Avila said. Republicans may soon learn just how that works. Read more
All those useful imbeciles who did 45’s bidding and those who didn’t speak out but knew what… 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
Eleven Twin Counties students are among 215 rural North Carolina students recently selected … 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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RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — A federal appeals court on Wednesday threw out the 2020 conspiracy and bribery convictions of a major political donor in North Carolina and his associate, declaring that the trial judge erred in his jury instructions.
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 …
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LAS VEGAS, Honduras (AP) — Children set out hoping to earn enough to support their siblings and parents. Young adults who sacrificed to attend college thinking it would lead to success left their country disillusioned. A man already working in the U.S. who returned to visit his wife and chil…
BEIJING (AP) — Asian stock markets were mixed Thursday after the U.S. economy contracted and China reported stronger factory activity.
SAN ANTONIO (AP) — In the chaotic minutes after dozens of migrants were found dead inside a tractor-trailer sweltering under the Texas sun, the driver tried to slip away by pretending to be one of the survivors, a Mexican immigration official said Wednesday.
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Both sides rested their cases Wednesday in the trial of a man charged with the killing of rapper Nipsey Hussle after a day's delay because of an assault on the defendant by fellow jail inmates.