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
Nash County is taking applications for its 2023 Nash County Citizens’ Academy until March 10. Read moreNash County seeks applicants for citizens’ academy
One man is dead and another man is hospitalized in connection with a shooting late Sunday ni… Read moreMan killed, another wounded in shooting at Executive Inn
The Nash County Sheriff's Office is seeking the public's assistance in identifying two men w… Read moreNash deputies seek suspects who robbed dollar store.
A teenager is in fair condition at the hospital in Greenville in what is the second case in … Read morePolice investigate shooting of teen
United Way Tar River Region recently announced the continuation of the Emergency Food and Sh… Read moreTwin Counties awarded emergency funds
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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
A big first half helped the Rocky Mount varsity girls basketball team roll to another victor… Read moreGirls Basketball Roundup: Big first half sparks Rocky Mount to 20th win
The North Carolina Wesleyan women’s basketball team won two games over the weekend to improv… Read moreWesleyan women win twice; men eclipse 100
I am not normally a fan of writing about a topic that everyone else is discussing in sports;… Read moreBrother vs. brother in the Super Bowl
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
Republicans have long said the Hunter Biden laptop scandal is really a Joe Biden story. Now, it looks like the Joe Biden classified documents scandal is also a Hunter Biden story. Two Biden scandals are merging into one. Read moreByron York: Joe and Hunter Biden have scandal convergence
The two most common themes of MAGA sorehead emails I received last year were the inevitability of an anti-Biden landslide in 2022, and the certainty of Hillary Clinton’s prosecution by “independent counsel” John Durham, supposedly for falsifying evidence against Donald Trump during the “Russia, Russia, Russia hoax,” as Trump styles it. Read moreGene Lyons: GOP can't stop failing with conspiracy investigations
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
Many Americans at one point or another will deal with an unexpected event that has financial… Read moreKeith E. Prevost: How to make a financial comeback
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
We live in a post-pandemic world, and job seekers have had to adapt to a new way of job sear… Read moreChristy Skojec Taylor: How to avoid costly mistakes in virtual interviews
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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.
Amid high egg prices, social media users are claiming that common chicken feed products are preventing their own hens from laying eggs. Some have gone a step further to suggest that feed producers intentionally made their products deficient to stop backyard egg production and force consumers to buy eggs at inflated prices. But experts say high egg prices are caused by bird flu and inflation. And while feed quality can affect egg production, there are more mundane explanations for backyard flock owners’ reported low egg yields, including environmental reasons like cold weather or insufficient light, rather than a broad conspiracy.
China is threatening what it calls “further actions” after an American fighter jet shot down a suspected spy balloon off the East Coast of the United States on Saturday. The U.S. says the massive balloon was a surveillance craft that spent days crossing over sensitive military sites in North America. The White House says President Joe Biden approved the downing, and followed the advice of military officials by waiting to bring down the craft over water rather than risk debris falling on populated areas. But China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs insists again that the craft was civilian and its flight an accident. It is criticizing the U.S. for what it terms “an obvious overreaction and a serious violation of international practice.”
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NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks are opening mostly lower on Wall Street, but gains in some tech stocks were pushing the Nasdaq barely higher. The S&P 500 index fell 0.2% in the early going Tuesday and the Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 0.4%. A solid gain in Microsoft nudged the Nasdaq up 0.1%.…
The 65th Grammys were back in full swing Sunday. Once again, Beyoncé was in the running for the top honor, and once again, the show ended with someone else winning album of the year. This year was widely seen as a chance for the Grammys to honor the superstar with a marquee award, especially on a night where she could have (and did) become its most decorated artist. Instead, Harry Styles won, and a line from his acceptance speech sparked criticism. Styles remarked that moments like that didn't happen to people like him very often, but some viewed the comment as white privilege. Beyoncé, they noted, had lost the honor four times already to white artists.
Someone in Washington state overcame steep odds to win a $754.6 million Powerball jackpot. The winning numbers Monday night were 05, 11, 22, 23, 69 and the Powerball 07. Lottery officials said in a statement early Tuesday that a single ticket matched all six numbers and that ticket sales pushed the jackpot higher than an earlier $747 million estimate. The full jackpot is for a winner opting for an annuity distributed in one immediate but partial payout followed by additional payments over 29 years that increase by 5% annually. The winner also can opt for a one-time cash payment of $407.2 million. Powerball says both prizes are the amounts before taxes. The jackpot was the ninth-largest in U.S. history.
Ukrainian officials say Russian shelling has hit more civilian targets ahead of what Kyiv authorities suspect is an impending new offensive by Moscow around the anniversary of its invasion. Regional Ukrainian emergency services said a hospital in a northeastern town of caught fire late Monday as a result of Russian shelling. Emergency crews evacuated eight civilians from the site before putting out the fire, which caused no casualties. The town is in the Kharkiv region that was occupied by Russia after its invasion almost a year ago and subsequently retaken by Ukraine during a late summer counteroffensive. Authorities in eastern Ukraine's Donetsk and Luhansk provinces reported Russian troop buildups in recent days.
