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A Nash County woman is jailed without bond in the county detention center on charges of firs… Read moreWoman charged with murder in fatal beating of grandchild
Nash Community College President Lew Hunnicutt told the Monday luncheon gathering of the Roc… Read moreNCC targets workforce development
One person is dead and another person is hospitalized in connection with a shooting late Tue… Read moreOne dead, another injured in shooting near Whitakers
The Nash County Sheriff's Office is investigating the death of an 8-year-old along Dutchman … Read moreNash sheriff’s office investigates juvenile's death as suspicious
A man was involuntarily committed after being taken to ECU Health Edgecombe Hospital in Tarb… Read moreMan involuntarily committed after standoff with authorities
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Strength in numbers has proved to be an asset for the Faith Christian School girls swim team… Read moreSTRENGTH IN NUMBERS: FCS girls finish undefeated, CIC champs
Will Tharin is an example of the old sports adage, “It’s not how much playing time one gets,… Read moreWHERE THERE'S A WILL: Tharin, RMA boys top Faith to seal CIC season crown
Rocky Mount High School’s Kaylee Eggers is two-time regional swimming champion. Read moreRegional swimming: Rocky Mount's Eggers claims two titles
A host of swimmers from Nash and Edgecombe County high schools have qualified for the North … Read moreNash, Edgecombe swimmers qualify for state championships
Rocky Mount used a 26-19 run in the second quarter to pull away from Southern Nash and defea… Read moreBoys Basketball Roundup: Gryphons pull away from Firebirds
The Carolina Independent 1A Conference Basketball Tournaments begin this week at the higher … Read moreCIC basketball tournaments begin this week
The first Confederate statues were monuments to victory in a war of Southern aggression. Defeated at Appomattox, Southern whites regrouped by organizing terrorist militias and ransacking the region’s newly biracial local and state governments. As the North soured on Reconstruction and white Republicans finally abandoned the freed slaves, Southerners completed the “Redemption” of the old Confederacy with the imposition of a slavery-esque system of apartheid. Up went the statues to celebrate Dixie’s revenge. Read moreAlexander Jones: Conservatives are the cultural aggressors
The Constitution states: “No person shall be a Representative who shall not have attained the age of twenty five years, and been seven years a Citizen of the United States, and who shall not, when elected, be an inhabitant of that State in which he shall be chosen.” Read moreWashington Merry-go-round: Register and regulate within the Second Amendment
The Boy Scout from Troop 587 in West Edgecombe thinks climate change is the most important i… Read moreLetter: Alternative solutions to climate change must be explored
Maybe I have been too exposed to the Ku Klux Klan and their sympathizers over the years — whether they were dressed in a white robe or now wearing a Brooks Brothers’ suit, I say facetiously. Read moreGary Franks: 21st-century Klansmen don't have sheets, hoods
As Congress rolls out its latest theatrical production concerning the debt ceiling, the same old lines from the same old script are enjoying new life. Read moreThomas L. Knapp: Taxpayers will lose despite debt ceiling theatrics
The “problem” with freedom is that other people may do things that trouble, annoy, or even anger you. In a free society, you have no legitimate authority to stop them. Read moreJohn Hood: Freedom is the solution, not the problem
Join Edgecombe Community College for two unique events in February to celebrate Black Histor… Read moreMary Tom Bass: ECC events to celebrate Black History Month
N.C. Wesleyan University has been ranked among the 2023 Best Online Master’s in Criminal Jus… Read moreWesleyan online master's program earns high ranking
Many Americans at one point or another will deal with an unexpected event that has financial… Read moreKeith E. Prevost: How to make a financial comeback
N.C. Wesleyan University was recently awarded a grant from N.C. Independent Colleges and Uni… Read moreGrant to help fund male mentoring program at N.C. Wesleyan
The mission of Keep America Beautiful is “to inspire and educate people to take action every… Read moreStephanie Collins: Local cleanup, recycling events aid area
We live in a post-pandemic world, and job seekers have had to adapt to a new way of job sear… Read moreChristy Skojec Taylor: How to avoid costly mistakes in virtual interviews
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North Carolina’s Republican-controlled Senate has passed a bill requiring teachers to alert parents in most circumstances before calling a student by a different name or pronoun. Sponsors say the bill is needed to keep parents informed about what their children are being taught in public schools. Critics say it would make schools unsafe spaces for LGBTQ and questioning children to explore their identities. The proposal passed the Senate 29-18 on Tuesday. It would also prohibit instruction about gender identity and sexuality in K-4 classrooms. It now heads to the state House, where Republicans likely would need some Democratic support to push it through.
The daughter of a South Florida Lyft driver who went missing more than a week ago has confirmed that the man has died. Lindsay DiBetta posted on Facebook on Tuesday that the family would be announcing information on services for her father, 74-year-old Gary Levin, in the next few days. Levin went missing Jan. 30 after dropping off a customer north of Florida’s Lake Okeechobee. His family reported him missing when he didn’t return home. Levin’s red 2022 Kia Stinger was spotted in Miami, Okeechobee and Gainesville, in north Florida last week. It was stopped Thursday night in North Carolina, and the driver is being held on $2 million bond.
Former longtime North Carolina state Sen. Jerry Tillman has died at age 82. A funeral home confirmed Monday that Tillman died Saturday at a Greensboro health facility from natural causes. The Randolph County Republican was a retired public schoolteacher, administrator and coach first elected to the Senate in 2002. He served as a Senate majority whip, education budget writer and finance committee co-chair after Republicans took over the Senate. Tillman often pressed for legislation that promoted school choice and tax relief. He retired in mid-2020. A funeral is set for later this month in Archdale.
Republican lawmakers are accusing China of deliberately surveilling sensitive U.S. military sites with a suspected spy balloon. And they say the Biden administration has given Beijing an intelligence opening by not downing the balloon during its high-altitude drift through American airspace. Democrats are defending Biden and they note that there were similar incursions while Donald Trump was president. A missile from an F-22 fighter jet downed the balloon on Saturday off the South Carolina coast. A U.S. official tells The Associated Press that those involved in the recovery of the balloon are planning to take it to the FBI lab in Quantico, Virginia, for further analysis.
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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy thanked the British people for their support since “Day One” of Russia’s invasion — and pressed for fighter jets to ensure his country's victory. Zelenskyy’s daring to visit Britain in a bid for more advanced weapons comes as Kyiv braces for an expected Russian offensive and hatches its own plans to retake land held by Moscow’s forces. Hundreds of lawmakers and parliamentary staff packed the 900-year-old Westminster Hall for Zelenskyy’s speech. It was only his second confirmed journey outside Ukraine since Russia invaded nearly a year ago.
The suspected gunman in the racist 2019 attack at a Walmart in El Paso that killed 23 people is expected to plead guilty to federal hate crime and firearms charges. Patrick Crusius was set to appear in an El Paso courtroom on Wednesday. Crusius published a document online shortly before opening fire that said his shooting was in response to what he called “the Hispanic invasion of Texas.” Some Democrats and immigrant rights advocates say they're disappointed that more than 80 Republican candidates amplified this language about an “invasion” on the U.S.-Mexico border during last year's midterm elections.
A big fireball and billowing smoke rose into the sky when officials released and burned toxic chemicals from the wreckage of a derailed train in an Ohio village. Residents in the immediate area there and nearby in Pennsylvania remain evacuated Wednesday because of health risks from the fumes. Officials warned that burning the vinyl chloride would result in two concerning gases — hydrogen chloride and phosgene, which was used as a weapon in World War I. Officials say air monitoring hasn't detected concerning levels inside or outside the evacuation radius, and they're still working with experts to determine safe levels for various gases before residents can return.
Brittney Griner texted her good friend Diana Taurasi on Tuesday morning asking how the USA Basketball training camp was going.
