The following people were indicted on felony charges on March 11, 2019, by a Pitt County grand jury. All information, including addresses, is from court records:

■ Samuel E. Arnold, 71, 101 Dansey Road, two counts traffic a Schedule II controlled substance by possession and two counts possession…

A Greenville man was charged with driving while impaired and misdemeanor child abuse for having a child in his car, according to Pitt County Court records.

Robert Antwan Bowens Jr., 54, of 1616 Preston Place was stopped at 8:20 p.m on March 14 near Old Pactolus Road by the State Highway Patrol.…

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — Democrats won more votes, regained control of the U.S. House and flipped hundreds of seats in state legislatures during the 2018 elections. It was, by most accounts, a good year for the party.

Yet it wasn’t as bad as it could have been for Republicans.

That’s…

Some of the veterans and emerging leaders of the new-look East Carolina football offense, namely in the form of quarterback Holton Ahlers and lead running back Darius Pinnix, ensured that the Pirates could celebrate touchdowns Saturday at Dowdy-Ficklen Stadium.

Saturday morning marked the…

After a shaky start, the J.H. Rose Rampants baseball team put together 10 runs in two innings to put away Eastern Wayne Friday night in Greenville, 11-1.

Despite only collecting seven hits as a team, the Rampants drew 10 walks on the evening and put the pressure on the Warriors with their…

Typically, a starting pitcher does not like bullpen activity early in a baseball game, but Jake Agnos provided an exception to the rule Friday night at Clark-LeClair Stadium.

Agnos jogged out of the East Carolina dugout and to the home bullpen twice during the first three innings to stay loose…

BYH to the people trying to end the corruption on the UNC Board of Governors.

Bless the heart of the mayor for his presence at events. I attended the TowneBank ribbon cutting ceremony and it was refreshing to have a mayor that has the demeanor of a business person and caries himself in an…

The San Diego Union-Tribune

President Donald Trump’s plan to divert $6.6 billion from the Pentagon and the Treasury Department to help pay for the construction of a border wall is a frontal assault on the constitutional provision that gives Congress the authority to appropriate public funds.…

The minimum wage is now less about pay and more about inequality.

As a practical matter, the minimum wage doesn’t apply to the vast majority of workers. In North Carolina in 2016, only 38,000 out of 2.5 million workers earned exactly the minimum wage. (Another 52,000 workers — mostly…

I'm writing this in the air, flying home in a Boeing Max 8. They just announced the plane would be taken out of service as soon as we land. I'm not really worried that the plane has some hidden technical defect. I'm worried that the pilot's parents might have been rich enough to bribe his way in to…

With characteristic calmness, 88-year old owner Wilber Shirley is assuring customers of his renowned Wilber’s Barbecue in Goldsboro that the recently-shuttered restaurant will be back in business before long.

His iconic, wood-burning eatery, known for its whole hog barbecue, closed for…

There comes a time of year when one lets one’s thoughts drift out of classrooms to the sunny shores of spring break. And no place is more synonymous with epic spring breaks than Florida, be it the crunch of calcite shells underfoot, or the sandy curls of George Washington on the beach.…

I'm writing this in the air, flying home in a Boeing Max 8. They just announced the plane would be taken out of service as soon as we land. I'm not really worried that the plane has some hidden technical defect. I'm worried that the pilot's parents might have been rich enough to bribe his way in to…

With characteristic calmness, 88-year old owner Wilber Shirley is assuring customers of his renowned Wilber’s Barbecue in Goldsboro that the recently-shuttered restaurant will be back in business before long.

His iconic, wood-burning eatery, known for its whole hog barbecue, closed for…

There comes a time of year when one lets one’s thoughts drift out of classrooms to the sunny shores of spring break. And no place is more synonymous with epic spring breaks than Florida, be it the crunch of calcite shells underfoot, or the sandy curls of George Washington on the beach.…