The Pitt County Board of Commissioners is scheduled to approve a lease agreement needed to further boost the county’s emergency radio and paging system in Pitt County when it meets today at 6 p.m.

Staff is recommended the county lease space on a tower owned by American Tower Corporation that…

DURHAM — Houston Kidd, a self-proclaimed “astronomy nerd,” will soon have a brush with outer space.

On April 26, the Space X Falcon 9 rocket is scheduled to launch from Kennedy Space Center to bring supplies to the International Space Station, and a children’s book written…

The following people were indicted on felony charges on April 8, 2019, by a Pitt County grand jury. All information, including addresses, is from court records:

■ Brittany Ballard, 24, 1309 Westpointe Drive, Apt. 2, possess stolen firearm for May 30, 2017, offense.

■ Terrance Leon Best, 33, 100…

D.H. Conley softball kicked off its annual Easter tournament at the Sara Law Softball Complex on Saturday by beating a team from out-of-state, defeating Amelia County (Va.), 7-1.

Heavy rain and storms on Friday forced the opening round of games to be delayed a day, also leading to volunteers…

As the end of the regular season nears for area baseball and softball teams coaches and players are still fighting for conference titles and are beginning to see if they will have a chance to compete in the state playoffs. Here is where each school’s baseball and softball programs stand as…

East Carolina pitcher Jake Agnos and coach Cliff Godwin had a heated exchange on the pitcher’s mound during the ninth inning Thursday night at Clark-LeClair Stadium, which turned into a more calm and productive conversation between the pair a few minutes later after ECU completed a 5-1 win…

Did you know that manufacturing employment in North Carolina has gone up more than 10 percent since 2010? I didn’t either, until I took a recent dive into economic statistics.

In February 2010, there were about 431,000 jobs at manufacturing enterprises in North Carolina. By February 2019,…

Patriotism prevailed, and it is likely to continue prevailing.

This is the most significant revelation to come from the long-awaited Mueller report when it documented instances of individuals in President Trump’s circle of aides and allies refusing to do his bidding. They helped save him from…

Bless your heart to the writer who complained about encouraging kids to bike to school on National Bike to School day. My kids' school, The Oakwood School, used to do it from Ironwood and it was something they were very excited about and looked forward to dong every year. Sad to say that it stopped…

The refrigerator beeps if I accidentally leave the door open, which I do a lot, but it's a different beep than the one the dishwasher makes to tell me it has finished putting spots on my glasses.

Do I really have to know when the dishwasher is finished with its spotting cycle? Besides, when the…

It’s a one-way journey for helium, but a round trip for the ant-watchers.

Every day, a worldwide fleet of 1,800 balloons launches into the atmosphere for the sake of weather science and data reliance.

It’s a daily space race.

In this era of drones and rocket ships, balloons filled with…

I surrender.

In wartime these words admit defeat and put the speaker in the custody of an adversary. They do not usually gain admiration.

Instead, we celebrate the advice popularly attributed to Winston Churchill: “Never give up. Never, never, never give up.”

We admire the single word…

The refrigerator beeps if I accidentally leave the door open, which I do a lot, but it's a different beep than the one the dishwasher makes to tell me it has finished putting spots on my glasses.

Do I really have to know when the dishwasher is finished with its spotting cycle? Besides, when the…

It’s a one-way journey for helium, but a round trip for the ant-watchers.

Every day, a worldwide fleet of 1,800 balloons launches into the atmosphere for the sake of weather science and data reliance.

It’s a daily space race.

In this era of drones and rocket ships, balloons filled with…

I surrender.

In wartime these words admit defeat and put the speaker in the custody of an adversary. They do not usually gain admiration.

Instead, we celebrate the advice popularly attributed to Winston Churchill: “Never give up. Never, never, never give up.”

We admire the single word…