An unintended consequence of life returning to normal following two years of pandemic-relate… Read moreFlu season starts early, strikes hard
The Edgecombe County Sheriff’s Office continues to pursue leads to identify suspects in a pa… Read moreInvestigators continue to probe two Edgecombe County homicides
As temperatures drop, the American Red Cross is asking everyone to safely heat their home by… Read moreRed Cross stresses winter heating safety
Slightly more than six months after the City Council approved a lease agreement for space to… Read moreOpen house set to unveil new Downtown Development Office
A man with a prior history of convictions who on Tuesday wielded a large knife in the Rocky … Read moreMan armed with large knife in Walmart facing robbery charge
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Cason Price has gone fishing. Read moreRMA’s Price accepts scholarship to Carson-Newman
Back in 1964, Sam Cooke sang “A Change is Gonna Come.” Read moreRiver Bandits add six players, hitting coach
Tarboro High School used another solid first half in developing a big lead, and the Vikings … Read moreVikings eliminate Northampton County in fourth round of 1A playoffs
Rocky Mount High School’s varsity girls basketball team improved to 2-0 on the season with a… Read moreLady Gryphons shoot well in win over Millbrook
RED OAK – The Northern Nash High School football team is just one win away from advancing to… Read moreKnights explode past Triton, advance to 3A East Regional finals
Northern Nash and Tarboro are one win away from playing for state championships. Read moreOne win away: Knights, Vikings reach East Regional finals
Wonder how Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau feels now that U.S. President Joe Biden is turning to Venezuela to ramp up oil for Western markets? Read moreRachel Marsden: 'Western values' mean nothing with Venezuela
Since I teach part time at a small public university in Alabama, I’m hardly surprised by the voting preferences of the young adults who turned out in surprising numbers for the midterm elections earlier this month. According to exit polls, 63% of young adults voted for Democrats. They obviously reject the crazed extremism of the Trump-addled Republican Party. Read moreCynthia Tucker: Progressive youth may save the nation
Recently, both Ticketmaster and FTX crashed. Read moreRobert B. Reich: Who's hurt when monopolies crash and burn?
A rising force in state politics, Carolina Forward — a center-left policy organization to which I am also a contributor — held a recent post-election discussion forum that yielded provocative insights about the state of North Carolina’s political field. If I could distill a single message from the panel, it would be: “Democrats, don’t stop fighting.” The party has certainly struggled recently to surmount North Carolina’s conservative rut, but our state is not beyond the reach of a progressive renaissance. Read moreAlexander H. Jones: Don't quit, Dems — N.C. remains purple
Have you ever encountered a klansman at the grocery store? I have. I instantly recognized him as a member of the Ku Klux Klan because I’d seen him speak (sans hood) at a Klan rally (I was one of the protesters, not one of the klansmen) and on local TV repping the organization. Read moreThomas L. Knapp: #Leavingtwitter is tiresome performance art
I’m a fiscally conservative North Carolinian — and I think state taxes should be significantly higher. Read moreJohn Hood: States should take lead on welfare
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Incoming and returning Republicans to the North Carolina Senate have chosen a key lawmaker on tax, voting and energy issues to become majority leader for the next two years. The Senate Republican Caucus on Monday elected Sen. Paul Newton of Cabarrus County to the post. Newton succeeds Sen. Kathy Harrington, who didn't seek reelection this fall to her Gaston County seat. The caucus also agreed to nominate Phil Berger to a seventh term as president pro tempore when the session convenes in January. He has held the job since 2011. Senate Democrats meeting separately Monday reelected Sen. Dan Blue of Wake County as minority leader.
A memorial service will be held this weekend for Betty Ray McCain. She was a longtime North Carolina Democratic Party activist and counselor to former four-time Gov. Jim Hunt who died last week at age 91. McCain was the first woman to chair the state Democratic Party in the 1970s. Hunt named McCain secretary of the Department of Cultural Resources in 1993. She also served multiple terms on the University of North Carolina Board of Governors and on many boards and commissions. Current Gov. Roy Cooper called McCain a “trailblazer for women and a powerful force for good in the arts, education and public service."
Democrats celebrated winning North Carolina's lone toss-up race for the U.S. House this month as Wiley Nickel won the 13th District seat. The victory creates a 7-7 split in the state’s delegation — the best showing for Democrats in a decade. But there’s a good chance Nickel’s district and others will be altered for the 2024 elections, returning the advantage to Republicans. The current lines are only being used for these elections. New lines will be drawn by Republicans, who still control the General Assembly. And a new GOP majority on the state Supreme Court likely will be more skeptical of legal challenges that scuttled previous boundaries.
CHERRYVILLE, N.C. (AP) — A Cherryville woman’s first birthday party ever at age 105 turned out just perfect. Line dancers and square dancers performed routines to entertain her, 12-year-old Lily brought her 10-week-old yellow Labrador named Nina for her to pet and she even got the chance to …
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AL RAYYAN, Qatar (AP) — A man ran onto the field with what appeared to be a Palestinian flag midway through the second half of the World Cup match between Tunisia and France on Wednesday.
In a picturesque corner of western Wisconsin, a growing right-wing conservative movement has rocketed to prominence. They see America as a dark place, dangerous, where democracy is under attack by a tyrannical government. They say few officials can be trusted, and believe neighbors might someday have to band together to protect one another. They have felt the contempt of people who see them as fanatics. But they insist they are just normal people who aren't so different from the rest of America. And their views haven't been swayed - not at all - by midterm elections that failed to see the sweeping Republican victories that many had predicted.
Indiana’s Republican attorney general has asked the state medical licensing board to discipline an Indianapolis doctor who has spoken publicly about providing an abortion to a 10-year-old rape victim who traveled from Ohio after its more-restrictive abortion law took effect. The complaint alleges Dr. Caitlin Bernard violated state law by not reporting the girl’s child abuse to Indiana authorities and violated patient privacy laws by telling a reporter about the girl’s treatment. That account sparked a national political uproar in the weeks after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in June. Bernard maintains the girl’s abuse had already been reported to Ohio police before the doctor ever saw the child.
Closely-watched numbers for annual deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon show the total area of forest loss is down somewhat from last year, but that was a 15-year high. The data was released by the National Institute for Space Research. The agency's Prodes monitoring system showed that the Amazon rainforest that lies within Brazil — which is two-thirds of it — lost an area roughly the size of Qatar, over 11,000 square kilometers of rainforest (about 4,500 square miles) in the 12 months from August 2021 to July 2022. President-elect Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, who will take office in January, promised cheering crowds at the recent U.N. climate conference in Egypt to end all deforestation in the country by 2030.
