A Maryland teen who tried to evade the State Highway Patrol on Sunday night on Interstate 95… Read moreTroopers nab teen fugitive after chase on I-95
Nash Central High School and its Navy Junior Reserve Officer Training Corps program will be … Read moreNash Central JROTC set to open new STEM lab
The Nash County Board of Commissioners on Monday re-elected Commissioner Robbie Davis as cha… Read moreNash commissioners re-elect board leaders
“Fantastic Little Paintings” by artist Bob Ross is set to adorn the walls of The Mims and Gr… Read moreDates announced for Bob Ross exhibit at Dunn Center
Rosa Pittman of Rocky Mount took a chance on a $10 Fast Play ticket on Thanksgiving Day and … Read moreArea woman wins lottery jackpot
Nash Community College and the Rocky Mount Area Chamber of Commerce recently hosted a meetin… Read moreArea officials discuss workforce development
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The Northern Nash varsity girls basketball team fought hard but came up short against Farmvi… Read morePrep Basketball Roundup: Lady Knights fall to Jaguars in 252 Invitational
The song “You Need A Ride to Raleigh” by the 1970s rock band Nantucket blared out of the pre… Read moreTarboro, Northern Nash advance to state title games
Two games, two days, two wins for the North Carolina Wesleyan men’s basketball team over the… Read moreWesleyan men win twice in Roger Taylor Invitational
The song “You Need A Ride to Raleigh” by the 1970s rock band Nantucket blared out of the pre… Read moreYOU NEED A RIDE TO RALEIGH? Tarboro, Northern Nash advance to state title games
Jalil Everette and Chandler Mitchum made North East Carolina Prep School (NECP) baseball his… Read moreNECP baseball duo inks college pacts
If you know your NASCAR history you’ll find these trivia questions ridiculously easy. If you… Read morePonder this NASCAR trivia
After seeing the results of the 2022 midterms near its entirety, it has proven that the Amer… Read moreLetter: Voters reject authoritarianism in midterm elections
In a normal market, creditors demand higher interest from borrowers to whom they lend money for longer periods of time. That’s because these creditors are assuming more risk that they won’t be paid, and because a dollar of interest received tomorrow is usually more valuable than a dollar of interest received years from now. Read moreJohn Hood: Economic freedom is a shock absorber
Let the games begin, and I’m not talking reindeer games here. I’m talking about the political gamesmanship already beginning in the congress. Most of the rhetoric of revenge and retribution is coming from one man and one political party. For any of us who hoped the 2020 election would end the reign of the orange king, boy were we wrong. Read moreLib Campbell: GOP taking politics game to new low
Few tropes in North Carolina political discourse annoy me more than the claim that Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson is “fascinating.” In a state that elected Jesse Helms to five terms in the U.S. Senate, a political career fueled by bigotry hardly registers as unusual. Read moreAlexander H. Jones: Mark Robinson is not 'fascinating,' he's a bigot
What is sure to be one of the weirder moments of the 2024 presidential campaign has just taken place before the campaign is even fully underway. Read moreByron York: Trump got played in Mar-a-Lago dinner
For the next few weeks, Washington faces a brief, and important, window of opportunity. Suspended in time between an election that’s just over and another that’s already starting, the lame duck session of Congress has a critical question to answer. Read moreSteven Roberts: Maybe a lame duck can quack
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Two power substations in a North Carolina county were damaged by gunfire in what is being investigated as a criminal act. A spokesman for Duke Energy said at a news conference with local officials on Sunday that the damage caused the night before could take days to repair. Power was out for roughly 37,000 customers Sunday. In response, officials announced a state of emergency that included a curfew from 9 p.m. Sunday to 5 a.m. Monday. County schools will be closed Monday. Moore County Sheriff Ronnie Fields says authorities have not determined a motivation.
The Supreme Court is about to confront a new elections case that could dramatically alter voting in 2024 and beyond. A Republican-led challenge is asking the justices for a novel ruling that could significantly increase the power of state lawmakers over elections for Congress and the presidency. The court is hearing arguments Wednesday in a case from highly competitive North Carolina, where Republican efforts to draw congressional districts heavily in their favor were blocked by a Democratic majority on the state Supreme Court. The question for the justices is whether the U.S. Constitution’s provision giving state legislatures the power to make the rules about the “times, places and manner” of congressional elections cuts state courts out of the process.
MOORESVILLE, N.C. (AP) — There are six days to go before Thanksgiving, so Josh Pettit’s Mooresville home isn’t yet adorned with a single Christmas decoration. But it sure looks like Santa’s been here recently.
The nation’s largest public utility is recommending replacing an aging coal burning power plant with natural gas, ignoring calls for the Tennessee Valley Authority to speed its transition to renewable energy. TVA on Friday announced the completion of its environmental impact statement for replacing the Cumberland Fossil Plant near Cumberland City, Tennessee. TVA says in a news release that solar and battery storage would be more costly and time-consuming than gas. The recommendation still needs the approval of TVA President and CEO Jeff Lyash. He has previously spoken in favor of gas. The announcement drew immediate backlash from groups that include the Center for Biological Diversity, which calls the plan “reckless.”
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Indonesia’s Parliament has unanimously passed a long-awaited and controversial revision of its penal code that criminalizes extramarital sex. After Tuesday’s passage, the law needs the president’s signature and is given a maximum of three years to transition from the old code to the new one. Sex outside of marriage will be punishable by jail, and the law applies to citizens and foreign visitors alike. It will also preserve the death penalty and make insults to the country’s president illegal. The code maintains that abortion is a crime. But it adds exceptions for women with life-threatening medical conditions and for rape, provided that the fetus is less than 12 weeks old.
China's leaders have eulogized the late Jiang Zemin as a loyal Marxist-Leninist who oversaw their country's rapid economic rise while maintaining rigid Communist Party control over society. President and party leader Xi Jinping praised Jiang in an hour-long address at Beijing's Great Hall of the People as senior officials and military brass stood at attention. Xi emphasized Jiang's role in maintaining political stability in allusion to his rise to be top leader just ahead of the army's bloody suppression of the 1989 student-led pro-democracy movement centered on Beijing's Tiananmen Square. Jiang died just days after China's largest street protests since 1989, which were fueled by anger over draconian COVID-19 restrictions.
TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — A relieved Tom Brady stepped to the podium with a big smile.
Stocks are mostly lower in Asia after Wall Street pulled back as surprisingly strong economic reports highlighted the difficulty of the Federal Reserve’s fight against inflation. Tokyo rose while other regional markets declined. U.S. futures gained and oil prices also advanced. The S&P 500 fell 1.8% Monday. The Dow Jones Industrial Average lost 1.4% and the tech-heavy Nasdaq gave back 1.9%. Small-company stocks fell even more. The services sector, which makes up the biggest part of the U.S. economy, showed surprising growth in November. At the same time, markets have been lifted by expectations China will press ahead with easing its stringent pandemic restrictions, relieving pressures on trade, manufacturing and consumer spending.
