Nash Community College President Lew Hunnicutt told the Monday luncheon gathering of the Roc… Read moreNCC targets workforce development
The Nash County Sheriff's Office is investigating the death of an 8-year-old along Dutchman … Read moreNash sheriff’s office investigates juvenile's death as suspicious
A man was involuntarily committed after being taken to ECU Health Edgecombe Hospital in Tarb… Read moreMan involuntarily committed after standoff with authorities
One person is dead and another person is hospitalized in connection with a shooting late Tue… Read moreOne dead, another injured in shooting near Whitakers
Voting is open in US Cellular’s eighth annual Black History Month Art Contest with Boys &… Read moreVoting begins in Black History Month Art Contest
It was noted by long-time career real estate appraisal professionals speaking Monday at the … Read moreNash County prepares for property revaluation
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Strength in numbers has proved to be an asset for the Faith Christian School girls swim team… Read moreSTRENGTH IN NUMBERS: FCS girls finish undefeated, CIC champs
Will Tharin is an example of the old sports adage, “It’s not how much playing time one gets,… Read moreWHERE THERE'S A WILL: Tharin, RMA boys top Faith to seal CIC season crown
Rocky Mount High School’s Kaylee Eggers is two-time regional swimming champion. Read moreRegional swimming: Rocky Mount's Eggers claims two titles
A host of swimmers from Nash and Edgecombe County high schools have qualified for the North … Read moreNash, Edgecombe swimmers qualify for state championships
Rocky Mount used a 26-19 run in the second quarter to pull away from Southern Nash and defea… Read moreBoys Basketball Roundup: Gryphons pull away from Firebirds
The Carolina Independent 1A Conference Basketball Tournaments begin this week at the higher … Read moreCIC basketball tournaments begin this week
The Boy Scout from Troop 587 in West Edgecombe thinks climate change is the most important i… Read moreLetter: Alternative solutions to climate change must be explored
Maybe I have been too exposed to the Ku Klux Klan and their sympathizers over the years — whether they were dressed in a white robe or now wearing a Brooks Brothers’ suit, I say facetiously. Read moreGary Franks: 21st-century Klansmen don't have sheets, hoods
As Congress rolls out its latest theatrical production concerning the debt ceiling, the same old lines from the same old script are enjoying new life. Read moreThomas L. Knapp: Taxpayers will lose despite debt ceiling theatrics
The “problem” with freedom is that other people may do things that trouble, annoy, or even anger you. In a free society, you have no legitimate authority to stop them. Read moreJohn Hood: Freedom is the solution, not the problem
Slogans are easy and are vehicles to mask reality. Read moreEditorial: Rhetoric doesn't match reality in N.C. legislature
Rural North Carolina has taken many body blows — and this year has pummeled us with even more. In January, ECU Health announced it is closing five clinics, including its inpatient behavioral health unit. Read moreFrank Bradham: Medicaid expansion would ease rural NC’s pain
Join Edgecombe Community College for two unique events in February to celebrate Black Histor… Read moreMary Tom Bass: ECC events to celebrate Black History Month
N.C. Wesleyan University has been ranked among the 2023 Best Online Master’s in Criminal Jus… Read moreWesleyan online master's program earns high ranking
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N.C. Wesleyan University was recently awarded a grant from N.C. Independent Colleges and Uni… Read moreGrant to help fund male mentoring program at N.C. Wesleyan
The mission of Keep America Beautiful is “to inspire and educate people to take action every… Read moreStephanie Collins: Local cleanup, recycling events aid area
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North Carolina’s Republican-controlled Senate has passed a bill requiring teachers to alert parents in most circumstances before calling a student by a different name or pronoun. Sponsors say the bill is needed to keep parents informed about what their children are being taught in public schools. Critics say it would make schools unsafe spaces for LGBTQ and questioning children to explore their identities. The proposal passed the Senate 29-18 on Tuesday. It would also prohibit instruction about gender identity and sexuality in K-4 classrooms. It now heads to the state House, where Republicans likely would need some Democratic support to push it through.
The daughter of a South Florida Lyft driver who went missing more than a week ago has confirmed that the man has died. Lindsay DiBetta posted on Facebook on Tuesday that the family would be announcing information on services for her father, 74-year-old Gary Levin, in the next few days. Levin went missing Jan. 30 after dropping off a customer north of Florida’s Lake Okeechobee. His family reported him missing when he didn’t return home. Levin’s red 2022 Kia Stinger was spotted in Miami, Okeechobee and Gainesville, in north Florida last week. It was stopped Thursday night in North Carolina, and the driver is being held on $2 million bond.
Former longtime North Carolina state Sen. Jerry Tillman has died at age 82. A funeral home confirmed Monday that Tillman died Saturday at a Greensboro health facility from natural causes. The Randolph County Republican was a retired public schoolteacher, administrator and coach first elected to the Senate in 2002. He served as a Senate majority whip, education budget writer and finance committee co-chair after Republicans took over the Senate. Tillman often pressed for legislation that promoted school choice and tax relief. He retired in mid-2020. A funeral is set for later this month in Archdale.
Republican lawmakers are accusing China of deliberately surveilling sensitive U.S. military sites with a suspected spy balloon. And they say the Biden administration has given Beijing an intelligence opening by not downing the balloon during its high-altitude drift through American airspace. Democrats are defending Biden and they note that there were similar incursions while Donald Trump was president. A missile from an F-22 fighter jet downed the balloon on Saturday off the South Carolina coast. A U.S. official tells The Associated Press that those involved in the recovery of the balloon are planning to take it to the FBI lab in Quantico, Virginia, for further analysis.
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TOKYO (AP) — A senior official with the Tokyo Olympic organizing committee and three company executives were arrested Wednesday in an ongoing bid-rigging scandal related to the Games.
Thinly-stretched rescue teams worked through the night, pulling more bodies from the rubble of thousands of buildings downed in Turkey and Syria by a catastrophic earthquake that killed more than 8,000, their grim task occasionally punctuated by the joy of finding someone still alive. Amid calls for the government to send more help to the disaster zone, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan was to travel to town of Pazarcik, the epicenter of the quake, and to the worst-hit province of Hatay on Wednesday. Turkey now has some 60,000 aid personnel in the quake-hit zone, but with the devastation so widespread many are still waiting for help.
A big fireball and billowing smoke rose into the sky when officials released and burned toxic chemicals from the wreckage of a derailed train in an Ohio village where residents had been ordered to evacuate because of health risks from the fumes. AP explains the risks behind the substance that was burned, the resulting air quality concerns and how it’s being monitored.
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has brought his daughter to visit troops to mark the 75th founding anniversary of the country’s army as he lauded the “irresistible might” of his nuclear-armed military. That's according to a state media account Wednesday of his visit and its description of a speech Kim gave to encourage his troops. There have been signs North Korea is preparing to hold a massive military parade, which could take place later Wednesday. Kim's daughter, believed to be 9 or 10, was dressed like her father and they held hands as they walked down a red carpet. State media’s lofty description of Kim Ju Ae has inspired debate on whether she’s being primed as her father’s successor.
