New local COVID cases decreased dramatically over the past week, Twin Counties health direct… Read more
Crime in Rocky Mount was down last month compared to September 2020. Read more
Nash County commissioners are expected to announce next week their choice as the next county… Read more
Grace Nelms Batchelor was always known as a virtuous woman. Read more
An inmate escaped Wednesday from the Nash County Detention Center but was soon captured by l… Read more
Local governments will be required to comply with President Joe Biden’s vaccination or weekl… Read more
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McKinley Battle thought she had an idea of how varsity sports would go before she entered hi… Read more
Scoring points seemed to come with ease for the Rocky Mount Academy football team through th… Read more
Northern Nash’s Chloe Harrington is once again at the top of the Big East Conference. Read more
Despite Brian Foster no longer coaching the Southern Nash football team after retiring at th… Read more
Week 9 of the prep football season has arrived. Read more
The Tarboro River Bandits, winners of league championships in each of their first two years,… Read more
There are times when decades pass with seemingly little happening and there are times during… Read more
I’ve been spending a lot of time recently in conversation with right-leaning leaders, policy experts, donors and activists. My purpose is to assess the health and trajectory of American conservatism at this critical moment. Read more
I’ve been spending a lot of time recently conversing with right-leaning leaders, policy experts, donors and activists in order to assess the health and trajectory of American conservatism at this moment. Read more
Confession: I used to be a Republican. I briefly became one years ago while living amongst the ultrawoke on Manhattan’s Upper West Side. Their authoritarian diktats drove me crazy. And their narrow definition of economic interests as the rich versus the poor — with the middle class almost invisible — underscored their political naivete. Read more
Veteran Triangle-area Congressman David Price called it a career this week and revealed that he will not seek re-election in 2022. Read more
Protesters who oppose masking policies, vaccinations and critical race theory at local school board meetings say they are being unfairly labeled as “terrorists.” Read more
Nash Community College has been awarded a $60,000 grant from the Burroughs Wellcome Fund. Read more
Greg McLeod, president of Edgecombe Community College, is among the North Carolina community… Read more
Sisters With A Vision is a ministry group of 24 area women from four different churches that… Read more
October is National Retirement Security Month. Read more
Valeria “Eddye” Myers doesn’t answer phone calls if she isn’t certain who is on the other en… Read more
Keep America Beautiful of Nash and Edgecombe Counties, the City of Rocky Mount environmental… Read more
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RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Republican legislative leaders sent another negotiating offer to Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper on Tuesday as top government officials still attempt to enact a long-overdue two year budget.
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — A federal judge has ruled that North Carolina’s flagship public university can continue to consider race as a factor in its undergraduate admissions, rebuffing a conservative group's argument that affirmative action disadvantages white and Asian students.
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Two longtime Democratic congressmen with a combined six decades of experience announced Monday that they plan to retire at the end of their terms, another worrying sign for the party's uphill climb to keep control of the House in next year's midterm elections.
Some college towns plan to challenge the results of the 2020 census, claiming they were shortchanged because the pandemic forced students to leave campuses and complaining that the undercount could cost them federal money and prestige.
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PHILADELPHIA (AP) — The NFL and lawyers for thousands of retired NFL players have reached an agreement to end race-based adjustments in dementia testing in the $1 billion settlement of concussion claims, according to a proposed deal filed Wednesday in federal court.
NEW DELHI (AP) — India has administered 1 billion doses of COVID-19 vaccine, officials said Thursday, passing a milestone for the South Asian country where the delta variant fueled its first crushing surge earlier this year.
Shares are mixed in Asia after major Chinese property developer Evergrande said a plan to sell its property management arm to a smaller rival had fallen through.
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A Minneapolis police officer who fatally shot an unarmed woman after she called 911 to report a possible rape happening behind her home will be sentenced on a lesser charge Thursday after his murder conviction was overturned in a case that drew global attention and was fra…
