A student at Southwest Edgecombe High School was detained Friday after allegedly pulling an … Read more
City Council Ward 7 candidate Jabaris “J. Kelly” Walker has the endorsement of former candid… Read more
With money from the recent sale of a shell building at the Middlesex Corporate Centre and a … Read more
There’s a new grocery store in Tarboro. Read more
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SouthWest Edgecombe High School honored its student-athletes with a special banquet earlier … Read more
No. 1 seed Team Whitehead defeated No. 2 seed Team Lynch 28-6 to win the 10-12-year-old divi… Read more
“It was not meant to be.” Read more
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Rocky Mount High School honored its student-athletes at its annual athletic awards program e… Read more
SouthWest Edgecombe High School inducted four new members to its Hall of Fame last week. Read more
You would think, after the House Bill 2 backlash that occurred in 2016, North Carolina Republicans might think twice before pouring gasoline on the flames of divisive social issues. Read more
On several beach trips, I drenched my thoughts in the sceneries. We can bring that illusion … Read more
I am so pleased and proud that the first annual edition of the “State of Black America” (Encounter Books), published by my organization, CURE, Center for Urban Renewal and Education, in conjunction with the Claremont Institute has just been released. Read more
The first day of class the law professor strode into the room. The first thing he did was ask for the name of a student sitting in the front row. Read more
Once again you have citizens losing their lives needlessly because some right-wing nut job p… Read more
Democrats are fighting over the Biden Administration’s antidumping investigation of Chinese solar manufacturers, and it’s a revealing brawl. Progressives want cheap and abundant green energy that boosts U.S. manufacturing, but they’re discovering they can’t have it all. Read more
Nash Community College recognized 12 students during a pinning ceremony on May 11 in Brown A… Read more
Edgecombe County Public Schools Superintendent Valerie Bridges told Edgecombe Community Coll… Read more
As Edgecombe Community College students continue to navigate online learning and resources, … Read more
N.C. Wesleyan University’s new Corporate Adoption Program (CAP) recently wrapped up its inau… Read more
The Conetoe High School Alumni Association Inc. is gearing up for its 50/51 Milestone Celebr… Read more
United Way Tar River Region hosted our 14th Annual Community Champions’ Luncheon on April 27… Read more
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RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — A decade ago, Pat McCrory was king in North Carolina's Republican Party. The former Charlotte mayor became the first GOP governor in two decades when he won in 2012 by 11 percentage points.
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina Attorney General Josh Stein left a Raleigh hospital on Wednesday after being treated earlier this week for what he called a “minor stroke.”
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina government's most powerful Republican elected official threw his weight fully behind Medicaid expansion Wednesday, raising the stakes for an issue lingering in state politics for a decade that could result in hundreds of thousands of low-income adults gett…
The families of four people — including three teens — who died in a February plane crash off the North Carolina coast are suing the companies that owned the plane and employed the pilot, who also died. The suit claims the pilot failed to properly fly the single-engine plane in weather condit…
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UVALDE, Texas (AP) — Students trapped inside a classroom with a gunman repeatedly called 911 during this week’s attack on a Texas elementary school, including one who pleaded, “Please send the police now,” as officers waited more than an hour to breach the classroom after following the gunma…
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iran's paramilitary Revolutionary Guard seized two Greek oil tankers Friday in helicopter-launched raids in the Persian Gulf, officials said. The action appeared to be retaliation for Athens' assistance in the U.S. seizure of crude oil from an Iranian-flagg…
LOS ANGELES (AP) — A person with knowledge of the decision says Darvin Ham has accepted an offer to be the next head coach of the Los Angeles Lakers.
KRAMATORSK, Ukraine (AP) — Moscow-backed separatists pounded eastern Ukraine’s industrial Donbas region Friday, claiming the capture of a railway hub as concerns grew that besieged cities in the region would undergo the same horrors experienced by the people of Mariupol in the weeks leading …