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The Community Youth Arts Festival will be held from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Town Common, 105 E. First St. The festival will feature more than 150 visual and performing artists and various musical dance and theatrical groups, including performances by children. Call 328-…

WINTERVILLE—More than 400 students took advantage of a valuable opportunity to meet with area employers this month during the Pitt Community College Spring Career Fair.

Held Wednesday in the Craig F. Goess Student Center’s Davenport Multipurpose Room, the fair featured 37 businesses…

For many of us, the word “budget” evokes overwhelming dread and a vision of giving up all of our favorite splurge items. A budget that makes you account for every single dollar you spend can seem suffocating. However, budgeting is essential for paying bills on time now, and for planning…

East Carolina’s Kathryn Car­son is the Amer­i­can Ath­letic Con­fer­ence women’s golf fresh­man of the year, giv­ing the Pi­rates that honor for the first time since they joined the league in 2014.

The Pi­rates also took the AAC team aca­demic…

C.B. Aycock came to Greenville on Friday night for key games in Eastern Carolina 3-A/4-A Conference baseball and softball and D.H. Conley protected home field with a 4-2 win in baseball and 7-3 victory in softball.

Robbie O'Neal started on the pitcher’s mound for the first-place Vikings (17-3,…

Ken Niumatalolo is on Paul Johnson’s side when it comes to the new NCAA rule in football that bans blocking below the waist that occurs five yards beyond the line of scrimmage.

Niumatalolo is the veteran coach at Navy, which runs the triple-option rushing scheme maybe better than any other…

In a recent letter to the Daily Reflector, pharmacologist Ken Soderstrom cited the 2015 Friedman case to bolster his view that Justice Scalia would have extended Second Amendment protection to semiautomatic rifles.

In Friedman, the Supreme Court refused to review a federal appeals court decision…

Let's set the scene: A woman is representing constituents, changing Senate rules, raising two small children. She was a U.S. Army helicopter pilot and the first female double amputee from the Iraq War. The first in many things, including being the first sitting senator to give birth, she's now the…

April 22-28 is National Therapy Animal Week. I want to recognize all of the exceptional therapy animal teams who bring comfort and healing to those in need in eastern North Carolina.

Therapy animals and their handlers can be found helping people of all ages in a variety of settings including…

The 14th Community Youth Arts Festival will bring 150 visual and performing artists to Greenville on Sunday, leaving some people to wonder how on earth they had never heard of this before.

The newly named festival is actually two celebrations in one. The event combines the ECU Youth Arts Festival…

“I Feel Pretty” suffers from a fatal flaw: its premise. Built around the notion that there’s something inherently hilarious — even crazy — about a woman not supermodel-thin or -gorgeous behaving with the confidence of one who is, the comedy treats its star, Amy Schumer,…

Capsules of movies playing locally. New releases are indicated with an asterisk.

BLOCKERS — Three parents try to stop their daughters from having sex on prom night. (1 hour, 42 minutes) Rated R.

BLUMHOUSE’S TRUTH OR DARE — A harmless game of Truth or Dare among friends…

The 2005 minivan rolled a little beyond 200,000 miles and decided that this would be the finish line. The catalytic converter was rattling, the transmission was knocking, and the air conditioner was on the blink — again.

“We have to do something,” said Sharon, who was about to…

The April breezes that follow March freezes are just teases for a balloon to wander where it pleases.

To put it in the terms of a homework problem, If a weather balloon leaves Catawba Valley Community College at 9 a.m. on Saturday, where will the payload land?

It’s not a fruitless problem.…

“I ask no favor for my sex. All I ask of our brethren is that they take their feet off our necks,” U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg told me recently in Durham.

The 85-year-old justice had lots to say about her personal struggles as law student, young lawyer looking for…