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The City of Rocky Mount today released a document the City Council approved during Monday’s … Read more
United Community Ministries asked for help from the City of Rocky Mount and will receive ass… Read more
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A traffic stop conducted Tuesday by Edgecombe County deputies resulted in the seizure of app… Read more
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Rocky Mount Academy’s varsity girls pulled an upset on the road Monday night in Wilson. Read more
The N.C. Wesleyan College men’s basketball team kept their offense rolling as they posted 61… Read more
Rocky Mount Academy suffered a varsity basketball sweep at the hands of Wayne Christian Thur… Read more
Southern Nash and Nash Central each won a pair of wrestling matches during tri-meets on Wedn… Read more
The N.C. Wesleyan College women’s basketball team split a pair of games held over the weekend. Read more
The Faith Christian School varsity boys basketball team nearly came all the way back. Read more
Let’s all get our minds on something to help the country and make Trump, Fox Fake News and t… Read more
When I was a fourth-grader in the segregated schools of Alabama, I was taught history from a textbook called “Know Alabama.” The book was written by a man named Frank Owsley, and it glorified slavery, deified Confederates and defended the Ku Klux Klan. Read more
President Joe Biden has taken the Democrat Party to new lows. The Dems have lost 14 points in 12 months in a recent Gallop poll on who the American people want to run the country. Biden’s and Vice President Kamala Harris’ polling numbers are at historic lows for this time in their term. Read more
Undermining voter participation privileges partisanship over democracy, whether it’s through distorted one-party districts (gerrymandering), or voter suppression. We need to consider not only strategies that re-configure districts fairly, maybe blindly, but also alternative voting methods that increase turnout. Read more
First I would like to say, I know that freedom of speech is R.B. Hinson’s right — but to inc… Read more
It’s been a year since Joe Biden took the oath of office and became the 46th president of the United States. A lot has changed — most of it for the better. Read more
A Tarboro native in her sophomore year of college is the current artist on exhibit in The Pe… Read more
Cadets consisting of a combined team — the “River Rats” — from the Tar River and Pitt Greenv… Read more
The start of a new year is an ideal time to reflect on your goals and what direction you mig… Read more
As winter continues to creep in, teens in the Boys & Girls Clubs of the Tar River Region… Read more
The Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges (SACSCOC) Board of T… Read more
For the past seven years, Bernie Taylor has been running Edgecombe Community College’s Basic… Read more
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State AP Stories
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) — The Supreme Court has agreed to review a challenge to the consideration of race in college admission decisions, often known as affirmative action. With three new conservative justices on the court since its last review, the practice may be facing its greatest threat yet.
The conservative-dominated Supreme Court on Monday agreed to hear a challenge to the consideration of race in college admissions, adding affirmative action to major cases on abortion, guns, religion and COVID-19 already on the agenda.
NEW YORK (AP) — André Leon Talley, a towering and highly visible figure of the fashion world who made history as a rare Black editor in an overwhelmingly white industry, has died. He was 73.
Biltmore United Methodist Church of Asheville, North Carolina, is for sale.
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ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — A paramedic who treated George Floyd on the day he was killed testified Wednesday at the federal trial of three former Minneapolis police officers that he wasn't told Floyd wasn't breathing and had no pulse when officers upgraded the urgency of an ambulance call.
Stocks gained ground in afternoon trading on Wall Street Wednesday after the Federal Reserve left its key interest rate unchanged, but signaled that it plans to begin raising interest rates as soon as March as the central bank moves to fight inflation.
MIAMI BEACH, Fla. (AP) — The Coast Guard battled time and currents Wednesday as its planes and ships searched for 38 people missing off the coast of Florida, four days after a suspected human smuggling boat capsized in a storm.
With 192 lasers and temperatures more than three times hotter than the center of the sun, scientists hit — at least for a fraction of a second — a key milestone on the long road toward nearly pollution-free fusion energy.
