A Rocky Mount man has been sentenced to 14 years in federal prison for his role nearly a yea… Read more
A 65-year-old man was the motorcyclist who killed in a wreck late last week on a busy thorou… Read more
Local residents can spend this weekend celebrating fall and helping out a good cause by atte… Read more
A Police Athletic/Activities League program is now part of life in the Twin Counties. Read more
Altice USA, parent company of Suddenlink, donated over $12,500 worth of iPads to the Boys &a… Read more
A man was arrested at his residence in the Englewood area on a warrant for impersonating a l… Read more
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Southern Nash is the lone remaining unbeaten team in the area after Friday’s 56-14 demolitio… Read more
Friday marks Week 5 of the high school football season. Read more
The Rocky Mount High volleyball team is starting to put it all together. Read more
N.C. Wesleyan College is set to hold its second annual commUNITY walk. Read more
A Rocky Mount native and former Appalachian State men’s tennis player was recently inducted … Read more
Nash Central is making a boys’ basketball coaching change. Read more
President Biden did not cause inflation. Most people know inflation is a result of the force… Read more
North Carolina’s legislative leaders have been relentless, spending untold sums of tax dollars, in their efforts to fix something that isn’t broken. Read more
Having grown up in the Deep South under the cruel lash of Jim Crow, I was jolted back to my childhood by the images of dark-skinned Haitians driven back by mounted Border Patrol agents — terrified black people helpless before light-skinned men on horseback. I remember the television footage of Selma’s Bloody Sunday, when white law enforcement agents, armed with clubs and whips, drove their horses into peaceful black protesters. I have ridden past prisons where black inmates worked fields of cotton under the shotguns of white men on horseback. Read more
Before The Andy Griffith Show, before nearby Pilot Mountain became the nucleus of a popular state park, Mount Airy had the Rock. Read more
The CSX/NC DOT Carolina Connector puts Rocky Mount and Edgecombe County in the logistics spotlight. Read more
Food insecurity in the United States continues to hold steady at its highest-ever rate. One in nine people in our nation faces hunger, and the issue has only worsened throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. Read more
According to the National Sleep Foundation, many workers don’t get proper sleep and feel tir… Read more
Braswell Memorial Library’s traditional “Boo Bash” Halloween Celebration returns this year f… Read more
The radiography program at Edgecombe Community College has been reaccredited by the Joint Re… Read more
N.C. Wesleyan College alumna Caroline Little has joined the college as alumni relations coor… Read more
After a two-year hiatus brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic, the North Carolina Symphony … Read more
Nobody is making it through the COVID-19 pandemic unscathed, including Rocky Mount small bus… Read more
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NEW YORK (AP) — About halfway through Steven Van Zandt's new memoir comes the point of no return.
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is nominating nine lawyers to run U.S. attorney’s offices across the country, a diverse group of candidates in the latest round of picks for the top law enforcement positions.
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Dozens of people supporting a North Carolina man who served more than two decades behind bars for a murder he said he didn't commit gathered Friday outside the Executive Mansion as they urged the governor to formally pardon him.
WASHINGTON (AP) — The man who claimed he had a bomb in a pickup truck near the U.S. Capitol last month, prompting evacuations and an hourslong standoff with police, is competent to stand trial, a federal judge ruled Wednesday.
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BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — In a packed intensive care unit for coronavirus patients in Romania’s capital, Bucharest, 55-year-old Adrian Pica sits on his bed receiving supplementary oxygen to help him breathe. “I didn’t want to get vaccinated because I was afraid,” he said.
NEW YORK (AP) — About halfway through Steven Van Zandt's new memoir comes the point of no return.
ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — A man who killed five people at a newspaper in Maryland was sentenced on Tuesday to more than five life sentences without the possibility of parole.
CHICAGO (AP) — After five years of legal battles, gentrification concerns and a federal review, Barack and Michelle Obama were expected to attend a celebratory groundbreaking Tuesday on their legacy project in a lakefront Chicago park.
