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
Twin County Community Pride Inc. recently announced nine new inductees representing Edgecomb… Read more
The Edgecombe County Board of Commissioners has three meetings scheduled over the next 27 da… Read more
The N.E.W. Salvation Army anticipates meeting the needs of 600 or more family members and ne… Read more
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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
Southern Nash never could get comfortable. 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
By President Joe Biden’s predictions, fully vaccinated American adults would be able to receive a third shot of the coronavirus vaccine starting Monday. Read more
Americans are currently experiencing one of the most peculiar public episodes of my lifetime. Amid a deadly worldwide disease epidemic, many people are behaving like medieval peasants: alternately denying the existence of the plague, blaming an assortment of imaginary villains, or running around seeking chimerical miracle cures. Read more
North Carolina’s economy has enjoyed a substantial recovery from the depths of the Great Suppression — that is, from the COVID-19 downturn of 2020. Most businesses are back up and operating. So are schools and universities. More employees than ever before are working from home. Read more
President Joe Biden, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer have based the future of the entire Democratic agenda on a trick. And now many Democrats are increasingly concerned — terrified, actually — that the trick won’t work. 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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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.
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — The chairman of the North Carolina Alcoholic Beverage Control Commission has resigned from the board, citing anxiety over the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and the agency’s recent challenges with liquor distribution.
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Union County's school board voted Monday to modify the district's quarantine protocols to comply with state law and let the county health department lead contact-tracing efforts.
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Facebook is putting a hold on the development of a kids' version of Instagram, geared toward children under 13, to address concerns that have been raised about the vulnerability of younger users.
Stocks are off to a mixed start on Wall Street Monday as gains for banks and energy companies are checked by drops in the technology sector. The S&P 500 was off 0.4% in the early going, while the tech-heavy Nasdaq lost 1.1%. The Dow Jones Industrial Average was up 0.4%, however, and a me…
NEW YORK (AP) — Come visit the Maldives, its president entreated the world at this year's United Nations General Assembly, moments before switching to an impassioned plea for help combating climate change. The adjacent appeals illustrated a central dilemma for many small island developing st…
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Deported from the United States, Pierre Charles landed a week ago in Port-au-Prince, a capital more dangerous and dystopian than the one he’d left four years before. Unable to reach his family, he left the airport alone, on foot.
