Someone stole more than $1,000 worth of assorted children’s clothes from Belk on Sunday, according to a Greenville Police Department report.

The theft occurred at the Greenville Mall at 714 S.E. Greenville Blvd about 1:17 p.m.

The items are valued at $1,334.50. The investigation is ongoing.…

A Greenville woman faces charges of child abuse at an unlicensed day care she ran, the Pitt County Sheriff’s Office reported on Tuesday.

The sheriff’s office received a complaint on March 25 regarding an unlicensed day care facility being operated at 991 C E Senior Lane in Greenville.…

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Farmers' market

The Leroy James G-Circle Farmers' Market will be held from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. Wednesdays from June to September at 203 Government Circle, between the Pitt County Health Department and the Human Services Center. Payment accepted at the market includes EBT/SNAP, 2019 WIC and…

 After a successful 2018 season, Ayden-Grifton needed a big win to jumpstart their 2019 campaign and they certainly got it on Tuesday.

After losing to South Central in their season opener, the Chargers (1-1) bounced back to defeat North Pitt (1-1) in straight sets, 25-7, 25-15, 25-14. Ayden-…

Greene Central held a lead in all three sets, but some big scoring runs from Farmville Central proved to be the difference as the Jaguars beat the Rams 3-0 (28-26, 25-19 and 25-20) in each squads season opener on Monday evening. It was a battle of first year head coaches with Emily Nelson leading…

Quarterback Holton Ahlers led East Carolina’s football team in rushing last season with 592 yards and six touchdowns on 119 carries.

New offensive principles are in place at ECU under a new coaching staff, leading to some intrigue about Ahlers and his run availability. Would this staff, led…

If there was ever a time to call it like you see it, it's now.

Recent events throughout our nation have not only shone the spotlight once again on our lack of unity, kindness, decency and respect for human life, but they have spoken a deeper truth — we are unequivocally wrong.

We are wrong to…

The Greenville Advocacy team, a division of the nonpartisan peace and justice lobby, Friends Committee on National Legislation, invites you to a showing of the documentary on the United States longest and costliest war. Please join us at 7 p.m. on Sept. 10 at the Unitarian Universalist Church at…

I asked a young lady out to dinner and then to go play outdoor chess. She wanted to know if outdoor chess was like beer pong or jello shots. When I explained what outdoor chess was she suddenly remembered she had to paint her nails.

The preacher's sermon was on the Horizon Land Use Plan, or at…

I am quitting TV journalism. From now on, I'm getting my news from the papers. I have been thinking about it for a long time, but I finally decided when a friend of mine told me his story:

I was watching Nicole Wallace one afternoon as she preached about the imminent collapse of democracy as we…

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Jazz fundraiser

The Churches Outreach Network will present an Evening of Jazz fundraiser from 6:30-9 p.m. today at Yankee Hall Plantation, 3332 Yankee Hall Road. The event, which will celebrate 11 years of service by CON, will include a three-course meal and a live jazz ensemble. Tickets are…

Q: I decided to try to use olive oil instead of vegetable oil. Standing in front of the olive oil section I couldn’t figure out what to buy. Can you help? KP, Farmville

A: You share the same dilemma with many of us. On a recent trip to Boston I went into a great market that had an entire…

On a busy afternoon at a former workplace, I was deep into job-related thought when the distinctive sound of a hammer drill began its rhythmic pounding against the building’s brick exterior.

I know that sound well because I own a hammer drill and have used it for creating holes in concrete.…

YouTube is is like the rabbit hole in "Alice in Wonderland." One false step and I fall into it, emerging hours later with my head spinning and the sense that I've lost time that I will never get back.

The channel has a way to luring me with videos I never knew I wanted to watch but end up viewing…

Over 50 years ago, I had a Swedish girlfriend.

It never turned into anything long-term. But the fact that I met the Swedish girl before I met the girl I ended up marrying clearly introduced several complications into both relationships. And it has produced a tale that my wife Ruthie has never tired…