David Brake defeated Joseph Grimes in the Democratic primary for Nash County sheriff. Read more
With 100 percent of the precincts reporting, Allen Chesser, who trailed in race after early … Read more
Nash County Commissioner Wayne Outlaw easily won re-election to his District 5 seat Tuesday,… Read more
Nash County Commissioner Gwen Wilkins has defeated challenger Reggie Silver in the Democrati… Read more
First-term town Councilman Tate Mayo looked to be on his way to becoming the youngest mayor … Read more
Yvonne McLeod jumped in front of the pack in the Republican primary for the state House Dist… Read more
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Southern Nash and Northern Nash were able to complete their girls’ soccer matches in the fir… Read more
The undefeated Rocky Mount Academy girls soccer team is one win away from playing for a stat… Read more
The undefeated run is complete for the South Edgecombe Middle School baseball team. Read more
The 14th-ranked NC Wesleyan University men’s tennis team dropped a very close 5-3 match to T… Read more
The Rocky Mount Academy baseball team ended things early against Caldwell Academy on Saturday. Read more
BAILEY — Three runs proved to be enough to end the softball season for Southern Nash Thursda… Read more
How are we going to use the results of the May 17 primary to measure Donald Trump’s influence over the North Carolina Republican Party? Read more
By 1840, when John Motley Morehead took office as governor of North Carolina, the illiteracy rate for white North Carolinians was 26%. Based on national studies, we can infer that the illiteracy rate for enslaved Black residents could not have been lower than 95%. The state did not have a single city with more than 20,000 residents and it had only recently established even the rudiments of public education. That was despite the state Constitution, then more than 60 years old, mandating that legislators establish a public school system. (Some things never change.) The relatively few North Carolinians with both education and ambition were leaving the state for more energetic places that offered opportunity and a better life. Read more
Before the onset of COVID-19 in early 2020, patients who preferred to obtain medical services through video chats or phone calls were unlikely to be reimbursed for those expenses. Medicare, for example, covered telehealth visits only for patients in remote rural areas and only if they journeyed to some other institution — a doctor’s office, say, or a clinic — in order to consult with a provider based elsewhere. Other third-party payers followed similar protocols. Read more
I’ve witnessed firsthand how easy it is to arrest we who have limited funds versus those who… Read more
The planet and its national and international institutions are not even close to facing the realities that confront us. Instead, we live in a fantasy la-la land, or what Greta Thunberg might call blah-blah land. No one is more insanely deluded than Vladimir Putin, who launched a horrific and unnecessary war in which he could unilaterally decide to use nuclear weapons at any moment, based in grievance and an obsolete nostalgia for empire. Read more
Think about it this way: If Justice Samuel Alito gets his way and the Trumpist Supreme Court majority voids Roe v. Wade, many states will be forced to begin criminal investigations of women who suffer miscarriages. Don’t give me that crying act, sweetheart. In this state, abortion is murder. Read more
Making financial decisions takes time, attention and energy at any age. In the case of elder… Read more
The Rocky Mount Debu-ette Club would like to announce the 2022 seniors. Read more
“Have you played Wordle yet?” is a question I hear daily at my house. My husband is talking … Read more
Jammie Wacenske of Wendell has been named Nash Community College’s 2022 Outstanding Alumna. Read more
N.C. Wesleyan University held its Spring Commencement on May 7 at the Rocky Mount Event Cent… Read more
Thanks to the generous contributions from individuals, businesses, foundations and community… Read more
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RALElGH, N.C. (AP) — U.S. Rep. Ted Budd and former state Supreme Court Chief Justice Cheri Beasley won their respective Senate primaries on Tuesday, setting up a fall election matchup that should again test former President Donald Trump's influence in North Carolina.
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — U.S. Rep. Madison Cawthorn faced seven challengers Tuesday in North Carolina's Republican primary, an early test of whether voters will grant the pro-Donald Trump firebrand another term despite his personal and political stumbles.
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Former President Donald Trump on Tuesday faces the strongest test yet of his ability to shape a new generation of Republicans as voters in Pennsylvania and North Carolina decide whether to rally around his hand-picked choices for critical U.S. Senate seats.
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Former President Donald Trump's winning streak in U.S. Senate primaries is on the line Tuesday as voters in five states cast their ballots in midterm elections.
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KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Mariupol appeared on the verge of falling to the Russians on Tuesday as Ukraine moved to abandon the steel plant where hundreds of its fighters had held out for months under relentless bombardment in the last bastion of resistance in the devastated city.
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — During more than a decade as North Korea's leader, Kim Jong Un has made “self-reliance” his governing lynchpin, shunning international help and striving instead for domestic strategies to fix his battered economy.
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — New Mexico's governor said Tuesday that given the ferocity and swift movements of a record-setting wildfire burning in the northeastern part of the state, the damage will be significant with estimates of burned homes and other structures likely to range between 1,000…
DALLAS (AP) — The girlfriend of a man arrested Tuesday in a shooting that wounded three women of Asian descent in a hair salon in Dallas’ Koreatown told police that he has delusions that Asian Americans are trying to harm him, an arrest warrant affidavit states.