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Rocky Mount police are investigating the third homicide by gunfire this week after a 53-year… Read more
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The Hunter’s Park residential area on the northwest side of the city recently three times be… Read more
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Two more Faith Christian School athletes will be playing athletics in college. Read more
Reid Johnston won the Telegram’s batter of the year award in 2017 after a standout senior se… Read more
The Southern Nash baseball team scored more than 10 runs for the first time in more than a m… Read more
Southern Nash will have a new varsity football coach for the first time in more than two decades. Read more
Jada Battle had a realization. Read more
Brian Goodwin is starting to hit. Read more
I watched the exchange at the end of the Nash County commissioners meeting held on June 7 be… Read more
Houston Methodist Hospital set a deadline this week for its 26,000 employees: Get vaccinated against the coronavirus, or lose your job. Almost everyone complied, except for a small group of dissenters, who are now suing the hospital. Read more
New presidents have only so long to get big legislative initiatives done. It’s already June, and the clock is ticking for President Joe Biden. Big bills take a long time. Congress will spend much of the summer on recess. They’ll be at work in the fall, but by the end of the year, Democratic and Republican lawmakers will be obsessed with winning reelection in 2022. Read more
Now that the Major League Baseball season is well underway, with fans like me relieved and happy to have our absorbing summer pastime back, spectators returning to the ballpark and interesting playoff races in all six divisions, it’s time for the annual spate of “baseball is doomed” articles presaging the game’s inevitable decline and fall. Read more
Anyone who wanted a COVID vaccine has gotten a vaccine. Read more
Of all the commercials that have made cheeky pitches for light beer over the years, this one is a classic: Read more
Looking for fun activities for the kids over break? You’re in luck. Read more
Two outstanding members of the Edgecombe Community College Class of 2021 and a current stude… Read more
If you don’t have a spouse and children, you might not think you need to do any estate plann… Read more
The lack of access to high-quality STEM education in rural communities limits opportunities … Read more
Edgecombe Community College and N.C. A&T State University recently signed an agreement t… Read more
In the midst of the pandemic during the summer of 2020, the brothers of the Alpha Omicron Ch… Read more
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State AP Stories
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — North Carolinians in airports, buses and train stations will need to remain masked at all times until at least July 30 under a new executive order issued on Friday.
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Vice President Kamala Harris and the Biden administration's top environmental official are making stops in several Southern states to promote an intensive White House coronavirus vaccination effort.
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina senators approved a bill on Thursday to bar women from getting abortions on the basis of race, sex or a prenatal diagnosis of Down syndrome.
ELIZABETH CITY, N.C. (AP) — The unarmed Black man who was fatally shot in April by sheriff's deputies in North Carolina died from a “penetrating gunshot wound of the head,” according to the official autopsy results released Thursday.
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National & World AP Stories
SALEM, Ore. (AP) — Kip Kinkel, who killed his parents before going on a shooting rampage at his Oregon high school in 1998, killing two classmates and injuring 25 more, has given his first news interview, telling HuffPost he feels “tremendous, tremendous shame and guilt.”
TARRYTOWN, N.Y. (AP) — The road to this year's Westminster Kennel Club dog show passed through a pandemic and a major change of date and venue. For one of the nation's best known dog handlers, the road also proved dangerous.
CHICAGO (AP) — Two people were killed and at least 30 others wounded in mass shootings overnight in three states, authorities said Saturday, stoking concerns that a spike in U.S. gun violence could continue into summer as coronavirus restrictions ease and more people are free to socialize.
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Police have arrested one suspect and are searching for another after a mass shooting on a crowded downtown Austin street left 14 people wounded early Saturday, two of them critically.
