Edgecombe County Sheriff Clee Atkinson last was preparing to leave a parking lot on Fairview… Read more
Ricky Rapoza of Rocky Mount, a drummer and singer of Top 40, beach music and gospel songs, r… Read more
Bulluck Furniture will host Vietri Inc. founder and CEO Susan Gravely during a special event… Read more
TARBORO — Edgecombe County Sheriff Clee Atkinson said his deputies had no time to react Thur… Read more
A special called work session of the City Council is set for 4 p.m. Monday for the council t… Read more
A Rocky Mount native is hiking 600 miles across North Carolina to raise awareness about a ne… Read more
Local Events
Most Popular
Articles
- Accused drug dealer busted again in traffic stop
- Man in critical condition after being shot
- Police charge local man with raping woman
- Area musician hits lottery jackpot
- Mailing of city utility bills delayed
- City files response to EEOC about woman's harassment complaint
- BBQ Thrown Down offers food, fun
- Peacemakers to open new private school
- Local woman wins free trip
- Former city employee’s allegations spur public debate
Images
Despite Brian Foster no longer coaching the Southern Nash football team after retiring at th… Read more
Week 9 of the prep football season has arrived. Read more
The Tarboro River Bandits, winners of league championships in each of their first two years,… Read more
The Southern Nash boys’ soccer team is putting together an impressive season. Read more
The Rocky Mount High, Northern Nash and Southern Nash football teams are each 3-0 in Big Eas… Read more
The Southern Nash football team has made its way through the Class 2-A portion of the Big Ea… Read more
I’ve been spending a lot of time recently conversing with right-leaning leaders, policy experts, donors and activists in order to assess the health and trajectory of American conservatism at this moment. Read more
Chief spin fabricator Jen Psaki calls Joe Biden’s many lies “misspeaking” in her dismissive … Read more
It has become common in some circles to call the Jan. 6 Capitol riot an “armed insurrection.” That leads to a few questions: How many rioters were armed? And what weapons did they have? What were the arms in the “armed insurrection”? Read more
Closing down school buildings for many months last year — and offering poorly planned and executed virtual schooling as an inadequate substitute — proved to be a disaster for North Carolina children, families, and the education system itself. Read more
Elected officials lead us simply because of their positions — we have chosen them to do so. They lead by policy-making, they lead with the tone they set and the issues they choose to pursue. Read more
Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson saying controversial things could be a reality show. There’s easily enough content for multiple seasons. After all, his ascendency in North Carolina politics emerged from his confrontational speaking style. His mouth is what makes him so popular and disliked at the same time. Robinson even dares to weigh in on specific social issues where only one opinion is allowed now in the public square. Read more
Sisters With A Vision is a ministry group of 24 area women from four different churches that… Read more
October is National Retirement Security Month. Read more
Valeria “Eddye” Myers doesn’t answer phone calls if she isn’t certain who is on the other en… Read more
Keep America Beautiful of Nash and Edgecombe Counties, the City of Rocky Mount environmental… Read more
N.C. Wesleyan College recently welcomed Jordan Stone as multimedia coordinator. Read more
Edgecombe County Public Schools was accepted into the League of Innovative Schools, a nation… Read more
Additional Content
State AP Stories
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — Four years ago, Chrishonda Benson’s daughter told her that she didn’t like her brown skin “because it wasn’t pretty.”
TERRE HAUTE, Ind. (AP) — The 1963 Ford Galaxy looked pristine, a down-to-the-last-detail replica of Sheriff Andy Taylor’s squad car on the “Andy Griffith Show.”
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Former state Supreme Court Chief Justice Cheri Beasley was the top third-quarter fundraiser for candidates in next year’s U.S. Senate race in North Carolina, according to documents filed at Friday’s financial reporting deadline.
A roundup of some of the most popular but completely untrue stories and visuals of the week. None of these are legit, even though they were shared widely on social media. The Associated Press checked them out. Here are the facts:
{{summary}}
National & World AP Stories
ANCIENT OLYMPIA. Greece (AP) — Three activists protesting human rights abuses in China broke into the archaeological site where the flame lighting ceremony for the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics was being held Monday and ran toward the newly lit torch holding a Tibetan flag and a banner that r…
LONDON (AP) — British Prime Minister Boris Johnson will lead a special session of tributes in Parliament on Monday to the Conservative lawmaker stabbed to death as he met constituents, an attack that has fueled concern about politicians' safety and the level of vitriol directed at them.
World shares were mostly lower on Monday after China reported its economy grew at a meager 4.9% annual pace in July-September.
WOJSLAWICE, Poland (AP) — The Polish witnesses of the German crime in Wojslawice lived for decades with the memories of their Jewish neighbors executed in 1942. They remembered a meadow that flowed with blood, a child who cried out for water from underneath a pile of bodies, arms and legs th…
