Early voting ended Saturday and today is the last chance for people to cast their ballots in… Read more
Fire destroyed the JHRG Manufacturing building late Saturday night in Spring Hope. Read more
A local resident who fixes older structures recently said during a City Council regular meet… Read more
More than 600 people braved rain and muggy weather to run, walk, climb obstacles and dive th… Read more
Three men, including one with a prior record that includes having attacked officers and anot… Read more
Triangle Tyre has discontinued its project at the Kingsboro Business Park and the property h… Read more
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Southern Nash and Northern Nash were able to complete their girls’ soccer matches in the fir… Read more
The undefeated Rocky Mount Academy girls soccer team is one win away from playing for a stat… Read more
The undefeated run is complete for the South Edgecombe Middle School baseball team. Read more
The 14th-ranked NC Wesleyan University men’s tennis team dropped a very close 5-3 match to T… Read more
The Rocky Mount Academy baseball team ended things early against Caldwell Academy on Saturday. Read more
BAILEY — Three runs proved to be enough to end the softball season for Southern Nash Thursda… Read more
How are we going to use the results of the May 17 primary to measure Donald Trump’s influence over the North Carolina Republican Party? Read more
By 1840, when John Motley Morehead took office as governor of North Carolina, the illiteracy rate for white North Carolinians was 26%. Based on national studies, we can infer that the illiteracy rate for enslaved Black residents could not have been lower than 95%. The state did not have a single city with more than 20,000 residents and it had only recently established even the rudiments of public education. That was despite the state Constitution, then more than 60 years old, mandating that legislators establish a public school system. (Some things never change.) The relatively few North Carolinians with both education and ambition were leaving the state for more energetic places that offered opportunity and a better life. Read more
Before the onset of COVID-19 in early 2020, patients who preferred to obtain medical services through video chats or phone calls were unlikely to be reimbursed for those expenses. Medicare, for example, covered telehealth visits only for patients in remote rural areas and only if they journeyed to some other institution — a doctor’s office, say, or a clinic — in order to consult with a provider based elsewhere. Other third-party payers followed similar protocols. Read more
I’ve witnessed firsthand how easy it is to arrest we who have limited funds versus those who… Read more
The planet and its national and international institutions are not even close to facing the realities that confront us. Instead, we live in a fantasy la-la land, or what Greta Thunberg might call blah-blah land. No one is more insanely deluded than Vladimir Putin, who launched a horrific and unnecessary war in which he could unilaterally decide to use nuclear weapons at any moment, based in grievance and an obsolete nostalgia for empire. Read more
Think about it this way: If Justice Samuel Alito gets his way and the Trumpist Supreme Court majority voids Roe v. Wade, many states will be forced to begin criminal investigations of women who suffer miscarriages. Don’t give me that crying act, sweetheart. In this state, abortion is murder. Read more
Making financial decisions takes time, attention and energy at any age. In the case of elder… Read more
“Have you played Wordle yet?” is a question I hear daily at my house. My husband is talking … Read more
The Rocky Mount Debu-ette Club would like to announce the 2022 seniors. Read more
Jammie Wacenske of Wendell has been named Nash Community College’s 2022 Outstanding Alumna. Read more
N.C. Wesleyan University held its Spring Commencement on May 7 at the Rocky Mount Event Cent… Read more
Thanks to the generous contributions from individuals, businesses, foundations and community… Read more
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HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Former President Donald Trump on Tuesday faces the strongest test yet of his ability to shape a new generation of Republicans as voters in Pennsylvania and North Carolina decide whether to rally around his hand-picked choices for critical U.S. Senate seats.
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — U.S. Rep. Madison Cawthorn faces seven challengers Tuesday in North Carolina's Republican primary, an early test of whether voters will grant the pro-Donald Trump firebrand another term despite his personal and political stumbles.
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Former President Donald Trump's winning streak in U.S. Senate primaries is on the line Tuesday as voters in five states cast their ballots in midterm elections.
WILSON, N.C. (AP) — Wilson County’s only commercial hemp grower says if medical marijuana becomes legal in North Carolina, he will be a good candidate to grow it with the knowledge he has gained.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks rose steadily throughout the day and ended with broad gains as traders got back to buying again after a mostly miserable few weeks on Wall Street. Tech giants like Apple and Microsoft were among the biggest winners, and video game maker Take-Two Interactive jumped afte…
CONKLIN, N.Y. (AP) — In the waning days of Payton Gendron’s COVID-19-altered senior year at Susquehanna Valley High School, he logged on to a virtual learning program in economics class that asked: “What do you plan to do when you retire?”
SANTA ANA, Calif. (AP) — The man accused of opening fire on a Taiwanese church congregation in California was charged Tuesday with first-degree murder and five counts of attempted murder for what a prosecutor called an effort to “execute” as many people as possible.
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Mariupol appeared on the verge of falling to the Russians on Tuesday as Ukraine moved to abandon the steel plant where hundreds of its fighters had held out for months under relentless bombardment in the last bastion of resistance in the devastated city.